A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Premiere:
January 18, 2025
# of Seasons: 1
# of Episodes: 7
Finale:
February 28, 2025
Original Title:
美食新聞周報
Genres:
Reality
Production Companies:
TVB
Countries:
HK
Hong Kong is home to delicious food from around the world! Huang Wanman, Ni Jiawen, Huang Jiawen and other food anchors and hosts keep up with the latest food trends. Information about super popular restaurants is collected from different platforms, and the host personally tastes the food to provide authentic food reviews; they invite "star diners" to visit the "canteens" they privately recommend for meals; and they gain an in-depth understanding of the different stories behind the taste of the restaurants. The program selects several "popular" restaurants from this week's "Food News Report" and strongly promotes their signature dishes for the audience to savor and relive; it also delivers this week's food discounts so that the audience can instantly grasp the most delicious and cost-effective food information.
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Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
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