The Comeback Clan

TAI KOO-TUNG, who runs the Tasty Food Cafe, is a miser. His daughter TAI YING-LEI is taken to the hospital for stomach cramps. He is very worried. LEI’s mother passed away when she was very young. TUNG has been taking care of her since and so LEI is very grateful to him. LEI’s boyfriend YIP TSIK-LEUNG is a cello teacher. He always dreams that he could study music in Vienna one day. TUNG does not like LEUNG. He dresses up as a homosexual to check out what kind of person LEUNG but he ends up having an attack of diarrhea. LEI YUNG-CHI is an assistant manager at the Investment Department of the Ching Kong Bank. TUNG is not happy that he is requested to pay a service charge for insufficient amount of bank savings. He argues with CHI at the bank and both make a laughing stock of themselves. TUNG runs into YIP MO-SING. He mistakenly thinks that SING is an invisible rich man……

Some creditors appear at the Cafe. SING wants to withdraw now that he knows that the cafe is running short of capital. Rainfield Bonds close down. SING and other investors go to Ching Kong Bank for compensation. CHI is angry to see her younger sister, LEI YUNG-SHAN, supporting the investors. CHI and SHAN do not get along well, as SHAN is mad about her sister for not letting her see their father before he died. SING volunteers to be the chairman of the Victims’ Alliance. The Alliance has a meeting with Ching Long Bank, during which TUNG steals the limelight. TUNG runs into TSUI HEI-HEI, who sells scraps for living. HEI is also a victim of Rainfield Bonds. She asks TUNG to help her get her compensation. CHI meets with SING. She asks him to persuade other victims to accept 50% of compensation. If he manages to do so, she will pay him 100%. Before he starts his persuasion, he uses a trick to ruin SING’s image……

LEUNG is very disappointed that SING should betray other victims. But he forgives his father when he sees his bank statements. SING goes to NGAI CHUN-CHONG, a rich businessman in town, to see whether they can open Hong Kong-styled restaurants in Mainland China together. The latter is not interested nevertheless. LEUNG sells his cello in order to help SING out. SING pawns some valuable items to buy it back. CHI is still very upset about PAUL. She goes to a bar to drink her unhappiness away. SHAN shows up and draws away the man who is trying to take advantage of CHI. She then gives CHI some words of consolation. The sisters are reconciled with each other. SING tricks LEI into leasing her flat to him. Furious, TUNG makes SING and LEUNG abide by the strict regulations he sets. SING runs into HEI on the street. They end up at a police station because of some minor misunderstanding……

CHI claims she can triple the Cafe’s profit in three months. If she succeeds, TUNG should give her 20% more shares; but if she fails, she should give up hers. TUNG agrees to her proposal. CHI suggests launching canned Hong Kong-styled milk tea. TUNG supports her idea on one hand, but refuses to tell her the secret of making a good cup of mike tea on the other. Inspired by TUNG, LEI comes up with the idea of organizing a retro food festival. She loses her proposal on her way to the cafe. CHUNG’s son, NGAI CHI-ON, finds it. He also finds her idea very good. Some fierce dogs surround LEI when she is looking for traditional restaurants. SHAN comes to her rescue. They become good friends because of this. HEI wants to hide away from CHONG. She pleads TUNG to take her in and give her a job. TUNG agrees with the sole purpose of using her to defeat CHI. CHI finds TUNG’s secret tea bag by accident. HEI takes it by force……

HEI has gone into a coma and might even enter a vegetative state. TUNG worries about her medical fees. EVA, LEI’s boss, shows up at the cafe. CHI suspects she has taken the bride of Heung Moon Yuen’s owner. LEI finds it suspicious that Heung Mong Yuen is qualified to take part in the Retro Food Festival. She is even more so when she sees a pile of banknotes in EVA’s handbag. Not soon afterwards, EVA fires LEI for losing a contract. Following CHI’s advice, LEI makes EVA hire her again and the Tasty Food Cafe enter the Retro Food Festival. HEI has come round but she has lost her memory. TUNG tells her SING is her husband then takes her home. SING has lost some money on horse racing. He vents his anger on HEI; she runs away in anger. HEI has fallen into the sea. TUNG jumps into the sea to save her. SING uses mouth-to-mouth ventilation on her. HEI has a special feeling for SING after she has come round. The Retro Food Festival has ended……

CHI manages to bring SHAN round to working at the Cafe. The staff have some misgiving about SHAN at first, but they change their view after she has covered up their slacking. CHI wants to set a wedge between TUNG and his staff. She demands him to lay off some of them with the reason of financial difficulty. TUNG counter suggests carrying out a voluntary pay-cut scheme. Whoever offers the least pay-cut will be sacked. Feeling that she was not kind enough to LEUNG in the past, HEI takes some biscuits to the piano store. LEUNG’s student, RICKY, teases at LEUNG. HEI pretends to hit RICKY. RICKY complains to his mother as soon as she arrives that HEI has hit him. LEUNG loses his job as a result. LEI makes RICKY apologize right in front of LEUNG and his mother. LEUNG resumes his job. LAM KIU, one of TUNG’s staff, has come up with a way to ease the Cafe’s financial difficulty. Later, SING fires her with no apparent reason……