Unique Flavor

Unique Flavor is a Taiwanese Hokkien television drama that began airing on SET Taiwan in Taiwan on 16 August 2006, from Mondays to Fridays, and ended on 19 September 2007, with a total of 286 episodes.
It is directed by Fung Kai, with advisor Zhou You.
The slogan for Unique Flavor is Good, Interesting, True.

Cast

The casts are classified according to the families they belong to in the drama.

Zhous (Otsu-mi-ya)

Otsu-mi-ya is a Japanese restaurant in the drama with the name in Chinese characters/Kanji "乙味屋". It is pronounced as おつみや in Japanese and Yǐ wèi wū in Mandarin. The Japanese pronunciation was never mentioned in the drama.

Cast	Role	Character / Relationship / Career	Episodes appeared / Status
No cast	Zhou Yong	Nicknamed as 'Yong' Fourth in terms of seniority among the Top Five Chef Father of Zhou Qiang and Zhou Jiayu Saved Yang Huimei who fell off a cliff	He did not appear at all.
Scott Wang	Zhou Qiang	Nicknamed as 'Qiang' Known as Chef Qiang Husband of Li Yafang Head Chef of the Japanese Restaurant Otsu-mi-ya Son of Zhou Yong	He appeared in episodes 32-286.
Joanne Lian	Li Yafang	Daughter of Li Shunxing and Cai Qiumin Once had a crush on Shengjie Later married to Zhou Qiang	She appeared in all the episodes
Elsie Ye	Zhou Jiayu	Younger sister of Zhou Qiang Cheerful personality Girlfriend of Yang Zhiyuan	She appeared in episodes 42-214. After a bidding competition with Yang Zhiyuan, they became a pair of quarrelsome lovers.

Domotos (Domoto Fisheries)

Domoto is a Japanese surname. Japanese surnames are in Chinese characters or Kanji due to Sinicization in Japan. In Mandarin, the surname is pronounced as Tángběn. All "Japanese" in this drama were in fact acted by Taiwanese actors.

Cast	Role	Character / Relationship / Career	Episodes appeared / Status
Fan Hung-hsuan	Tetsuya Domoto	Disciple of Wang Yixiong Father of Ryusuke Domoto and Norika Domoto	He appeared in episodes 228-286.
Jiang Hong-En	Ryusuke Domoto	Elder brother of Norika The Japanese Huiwen met coincidentally when she lost her memory Superior of Yang Zhiyuan Son of Tetsuya Domoto Had a crush on Wang-wang/Huiwen but gave up knowing she was the fiancee of Shengjie	He appeared in episodes 159-187, and later episodes 250-286.
Lee Yan	Norika Domoto	Younger sister of Ryusuke Daughter of Tetsuya Has a troll personality Known as the Troll Duo together with Shengfen Had a crush on Yang Zhiyuan	She appeared in episodes 161-286.

Taiwan broadcast

, the show airs in Taiwan, country of origin of the drama every weeknight at prime time with episodes which have ranged in length from 135 to 150 minutes including commercial advertisements. The producers received funding from the Government Information Office to produce the series in high definition.

International broadcast

Singapore

Due to local broadcast laws prohibiting radio or television broadcasts in Chinese dialects the show was dubbed into Mandarin when it aired on MediaCorp Channel 8 thus making it the first channel to broadcast the show in Mandarin. It was the third Taiwan drama to broadcast the show in Singapore.

Vietnam

The Vietnamese dub "Thiên hạ đệ nhất vị" was broadcast on Vinh Long Television Station Channel and is streamable on YouTube. The show was aired on Vietface TV from 1pm-2:30pm, however, it was fully aired as it was replaced with Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann. The show is also currently airing on E Channel.

Malaysia

The drama is broadcasting now in 8TV in original Hokkien language under the English title Unique Flavor for two episodes with one hour each from Monday to Friday, at 11:30 MST and 14:00 MST with a 30 minutes break of its Midday Mandarin News at 12:30 MST.