I Strayed Again: More Taiwanese Dramas

Even though it's not flu season, I managed to catch the flu, which means several days of fever, sleeping and not wanting to do much else. So what did I do while home sick? Watch dramas, of course. I still need to finish 'Oh My Ghostess' (since I got side-tracked with 'Mask'), but feeling terrible didn't really motivate me to want to do the work of a recap. So, instead, I decided to check out a couple of Taiwanese dramas on Viki.

Smiling Pasta


The first drama I watched was 'Smiling Pasta,' a 2006 drama starring Cindy Wang as Cheng Xiao Shi and Nicholas Teo as He Qun. Xiao Shi is a girl who has had 17 boyfriends and all of them have dumped her before the relationship gets past the 3-month mark. She wishes on a shooting star that she will find someone to break her curse (because she believes that she is cursed) and to cherish her forever. Fate decides to answer, by having her lips collide with famous idol He Qun. He Qun has just been dumped by his secret girlfriend, Rita, who left him for his estranged brother, Ah Zhe. And to make the quadrangle complete, Ah Zhe is Xiao Shi's first love and the one who seemingly cursed her relationships in the first place.