Zhang Youfu (
Christopher Lee) is an ordinary man and
blue-collar worker who stopped studying and dropped out of
secondary school at
Secondary 2 at the age of 14 years old to join the
workforce by helping his father Zhang Dongcai, which he was later renamed Zhang Wancai, a.k.a. Curry Cai (
Yan Bingliang) in the
curry chicken business, as Zhang Wancai is a
chef cooking
curry chicken and therefore hopes that his youngest son Youfu would take over his
business. Besides helping Zhang Wancai out in the
curry chicken business, he also tried working out on different jobs from different
industries including a
roast duck apprentice,
durian seller, a
handmade fishball noodles seller and a
massage service assistant after he completed his
national service either, but unfortunately, they were all failed attempts and he ultimately returned to
cooking curry chicken at
funerals located at the
void decks. However, as he is slow-witted and clumsy, the
bosses of the
durian and
handmade fishball noodles business of his
employers find his work performance wanting and thinking that he is beyond hope. As for the
roast duck and
massage jobs, he accidentally burnt his
boss's and
master's
buttock using the
charcoal that was meant to
cook the
roast duck in the
stove and it landed up on the
chair that his
boss and
master is seating at. For the
massage portion, he also accidentally broke one of his female
customer's
foot whilst massaging and her other foot kept touching and kicking Youfu, and because of the latter 2 reasons, he also ultimately got
fired and ultimately and eventually returned back to
cooking curry chicken at
funerals located at the
void decks. At the same time, he is optimistic by nature and does not hold a grudge with his family, friends and employers. Following the death of Zhang Wancai due to heavily
smoking and
drinking which eventually got him diagnosed with
throat cancer, the heavy burden of supporting his entire family consisting of his mother (
Jin Yinji), his elder sister Zhang Zhenzhu (
Carole Lin) and his elder brother Zhang Hongyun (
Andrew Seow) falls squarely on his shoulder. Not only that, he also has to help one of his
army friends named Steven (Seth Ang) and his wife named Xiuxiu (
May Phua) in their
coffee business located at a
hawker centre by also becoming an illegal
hawker selling
fried bee hoon with
eggs, as this is to ensure that Xiuxiu would be able to return the amount of money she borrowed from
loan sharks and also to the
hospital as well, as she mentioned to Youfu that she has owed over
S$1000 which are mainly Steven's
medical fees. And also, in order to support his family and also mourn the death of Steven due to him diagnosed with
brain cancer and also Ah Mei (
Yvonne Lim), who also diagnosed with
breast cancer as well, he went on to work as a
taxi driver and a
petrol station attendant to pay for all of the latter's
medical bills. Ah Mei is from
Indonesia where she grows up in a
fishing village and became one of Youfu's
army friends named Lin Laifa's (
Darren Lim)'s girlfriend, love interest and later wife where he and another of Youfu's
army friends named Ah Gen (
Hossan Leong) travelled to the
fishing village in
Indonesia by
boat to introduce and pick her up and eventually marry her and live with Laifa at his
HDB Flat along with Laifa's mother and younger sister (Cheryl Desiree Chan). After Laifa fetched her back to Singapore and also after their marriage, he allowed Ah Mei to stay with them and did all of the house chores for Laifa and his family. But after a while, Laifa also realised that Ah Mei is diagnosed with
breast cancer and wanted to send her back to the
fishing village in
Indonesia and enlists Youfu this time along with Ah Gen as well to assist Laifa in returning Ah Mei and chaos ensued between Laifa and Ah Mei's father, where the latter is a
butcher in
Indonesia and has a very short temper, which he would get extremely infuriated easily. When Laifa and Ah Gen returned to
Singapore from
Indonesia, Youfu was tasked by Ah Mei's father to bring Ah Mei back to
Singapore and they never returned to the
fishing village ever again. Ah Mei and Laifa also got divorced thereafter and the latter also chased the former out of his
HDB Flat. And because of this, it resulted in Ah Mei becoming homeless and she has been looking for
houses to live in and even attempted
suicide, due to her feeling that she's beyond hope because of her
breast cancer. This was when Youfu realised this and was kind enough to allow her to stay in his
HDB Flat along with his mother and Hongyun, and then after settling down in Youfu's
HDB Flat, she also began to help them in the house chores everyday and helping even more than in Laifa's
HDB Flat. Besides that, she's also extremely industrious and even studied the
English dictionary just to prepare herself for the
O Level English Subject, to the extent that it astonishes Youfu and that he was extremely impressed by her. Besides serving
national service and
working, Youfu also asked his new girlfriend named Guo Jialing (
Ann Kok) out for a date and watches
movie and eats
duck porridge with her, and also hangs out very frequently at her family's
retail shop, where he would also make friends with Jialing's elder sister named Guo Jiayi (Justina Low). He would also bring Jialing's father (Lee Weng Kee) out to the
park very frequently and learn to play
erhu from her father either. Not only that, Youfu would also bring Jialing's father out to drink
beer and later introduces the
non-alcoholic drink kind of beer to the latter so that he would not become drunk and beat people up in public, and claims himself as
Wong Fei-hung. Moreover, when Youfu masters playing the
erhu, he plays the
music related to
drunken boxing that Jialing's father could use it to practice upon. At the same time, he also came into a major rivalry with Jialing's junior
manager named Michael (
Timothy Nga), who is
operating his
business at a
travel agency and coincidentally falls in love with Jialing and married her thereafter. The rivalry started to happen because Jialing was having dinner with Michael at a
restaurant and Youfu was not rest assured, and therefore Jialing had no choice but to introduce the 2 men to each other by even giving Youfu a nickname known as "Tom". Michael then invites Youfu to join them for dinner and even gave him his
business card to get the latter to know the former better. Jialing even told another wide lie to Michael that "Tom" (Youfu) is a
general contractor and
white-collar worker majoring in the
construction sector building
houses like
condominiums and
bungalows. When Youfu tells Michael the honest truth that he isn't a
general contractor but a
curry chicken chef instead, the latter started to give the former a bad impression and also looks down on him and even dislikes him even more, thinking that Jialing should not carry on her friendship and also boyfriend and girlfriend relationship with Youfu and date and marry Michael himself instead. This also led Jialing becoming extremely infuriated and disappointed with Youfu that he does not know how to tell wide lies sometimes and then broke up with him and also saying that they are not suitable to be together in a relationship but can still remain as good friends and continue hanging out with each other. But after a while, Jialing also realised that Michael is a very scheming person and also a jerk and crook due to him having bad intentions on both Jialing and Youfu and is also a womaniser having fun with many other women outside as well. Jialing's father and Guo Jiayi has actually never liked Michael all along and they were all merely just being polite to Michael only, because deep down they all know that Youfu is definitely a much better, honest and genuine man than Michael after all. Jialing also confessed to Youfu that she was being forced by Michael to have dinner with him and also dating and marrying him as well. This then lead to both Jialing and Michael getting divorced and letting Michael being arrested and thrown in prison, mainly because after divorcing Michael, she remarries another
lawyer named Thomas who helped Jialing in the divorce case for her and Michael, and then started to date with each other and got married for the second time with Thomas himself and then moved to
Tasmania,
Australia and enjoy their honeymoon in a big
mansion there. But then after Jialing returned to
Singapore from
Tasmania,
Australia and visited Youfu at his new
business stall selling
curry chicken ramen, she told him that both Thomas and her have also decided to file for divorce, which astonishes Youfu. Which explains why Jialing told Youfu that she misses her old life before marrying Michael and Thomas, and knowing Youfu was one of the best things that happened in her life, which is why she told him that it would be better to remain as good friends rather than becoming husband and wife after getting married because friends would always help one another in need but married couples would quarrel and become enemies instead. This resulted in Youfu understanding Jialing's point and therefore she eventually continues her friendship with Youfu despite not getting married but ultimately decided to remain as good friends for life. Ah Mei eventually fully recovers from
breast cancer after she went for
chemotherapy and then Youfu eventually promised to help Ah Mei pay for all her
medical bills. Eventually, Laifa is also diagnosed with
lung cancer and also passes away as well like both Zhang Wancai and Steven due to him heavily
smoking like the former, and also that Youfu's mother also passes away due to her old age and certain injuries as well, and that Youfu eventually quitted both of his jobs as
taxi driver and
petrol station attendant and sets up a
Food & Beverage business selling
curry chicken ramen known as Hock Woon
Curry Chicken Ramen stall (a combination of Youfu and Hongyun's English last name) with Ah Mei, Hongyun, Zhenzhu, Jialing's father and Ah Gen. Finally, after setting up Hock Woon
Curry Chicken Ramen business successfully and Youfu donating
S$50,000 to
NKF Cancer Fund on behalf of Hock Woon
Curry Chicken Ramen business, both Ah Mei and Youfu himself eventually got married and then start a new life together. ==Cast==