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A force of galactic stars has descended upon Singapore! Heading the troupe are popular Hong Kong artistes Raymond Lam, Charmaine Sheh, Kevin Cheng and Yeung Yi, who are here to film the first co-production by MediaCorp Studios and TVBI:
A 30-episode series titled Food For Life. Joining them in this drama are MediaCorp artistes Ben Yeo. Michelle Chia, Lynn Poh, Ezann Lee, Adam Chen, Jeff Wang, Alan Tern and Belinda Lee.Shot on location in Hong Kong, China and Singapore, the drama revolves around five participants in a gourmet competition.
Filming began in Hong Kong in October and is scheduled to be completed by February 2005. The Hong Kong actors have been here in rain-soaked Singapore since Jan 2 and will return in a month’s time. Hailing from the city of tantalising food themselves, what local food do Charmaine and Raymond absolutely drool over?
“Satay!” Charmaine immediately quipped. “And stingray! Luckily we went to Lau Pa Sat for filming, so we got to eat a lot of good food, like clams.” “We filmed till 3-4am for the 2 days since we arrived here, so we didn’t have time to tour around Singapore and try the different food,” Raymond added. But unlike many of us who feel guilty about putting on an extra few kilos, that is something this trim pair doesn’t have to worry about. “We use up a lot of energy every day, working more than 10 hours; we’ll need the food to charge us up,” the pretty and petite Charmaine opined.
Luckily for them, their co-actor Ben is the host of variety programme $2 Wonderfood before and is almost a walking directory of the best food in Singapore! The camaraderie between Ben and his onscreen pal Kevin Cheng has spilled over to real life, as Ben told us how Kevin took extra pains to take care of this ‘little brother’. “During play-back in filming, he’d not only look at his own acting, he’d also look at mine, and give me advice on how to improve, and taught me some acting tips,” Ben revealed. The kindness showed to him extended beyond work as well.
He continued, “Once, he rushed to buy eye-drops for me when he knew that my eye was infected. He refused to let me pay for it; he quickly grabbed an item from the shelves and said he needed to buy something too and paid for the purchases. I was quite touched. Even when we filmed till the wee hours and were very tired, he’d drop me off at my service apartment although he lived very far away.”
Kevin instead spoke humbly about his much-appreciated and thoughtful deeds. He explained, “I was only playing my role as a host to him. He came to Hong Kong and didn’t have any friends, it’s only right that we take care of him. Just like he takes care of us here in Singapore and brought us shopping and to eat Hainanese chicken rice and roti prata.”
On Ben’s self-acclaimed notoriously bad Cantonese, Kevin laughed and agreed, “There’s room for improvement; I’ll give him 51 marks.” Local viewers would not have a chance to hear Ben’s broken Cantonese on Channel U as the as the show will be dubbed in Mandarin when it goes on air! Food For Life will be telecast on TVB's channels in May 2005, and on Channel U at a later date.
Michelle: Follows Everywhere
1. Ray bumped into rich girl Michelle when he went to Singapore to participate in a competition. At first they hated each other, but later Michelle falls for Ray and starts to idolize him. Ray was very happy, but Charmaine misunderstood that they (Ray & Michelle) are more than normal friends.
2. Ray coincidentally passes through the car park and causes Michelle to think that Raymond vandalized her car. They argue and became instant enemies.
3. In the end Ray wants to pursue Michelle again, but she was still mad at him. She pretends to have a lesbian girlfriend to make him jealous.
Ericia: Takes the Initiative
1. Ericia is another contestant, she participates to look for a boyfriend. She took initiative to approach Ray after meeting him.
2. Ericia has a cute set of big front teeth, giving her the nick name of “Big Front Teeth” in this series.
Caption==> Charmaine: You’re so unfaithful! I’m so mad!
Michelle Chia versus Charmaine Sheh
Michelle's profile:
Age: 26
Height: 164cm
Weight: 46kg
Year of Entering Show Business: 1987
Education: University
Language: Mandarin, English, Cantonese and ???
Background: Won Singapore Top 10 Favorite Actress award in 1999
Charmaine's profile:
Age: 29
Height: 164cm
Weight: 46kg
Year of Entering Show Business: 1997
Education: Hotel Management, Switzerland.
Language: Mandarin, English, German and Cantonese
Background: 2nd runner up in Miss Hong Kong pageant 1997
Results: Even though Michelle is younger, but Charmaine is prettier; so Charmaine wins.
Filming News
Pearl's note: The following are news about the filming of Yummy Yummy from various sources and media. I only included those that mentioned CharRay. I also included uploaded news clips on youtube with each article whenever available. Note that the content of the articles do not reflect what was said on the news video... Enjoy!
Filming Mountain Scene
Translation credits to Em [The Sun 18/12/04]
Leading stars from TVB series "Yummy Yummy" - Raymond Lam, Kevin Cheng and Charmaine Sheh were filming a scene where they had to climb a 70 ft rock face earlier on location at Tung Lung Island. Wearing the rock climbing equipment, Raymond showed off his 'lunch box' and everyone was shocked at its size. Having previously played 'castration games' with Raymond, Kevin was asked whether he had felt the urge to attack Raymond and Kevin laughed:
"We daren't play any more, in case we can't have kids in the future!"
Raymond also announced a truce, saying he would not attack Kevin:
"I am afraid that we will lose the function if we keep playing it and can't even go to the toilet."
When the filming started, Raymond, who suffers from vertigo was very frightened, but still wanted to do the scene himself:
"Even if I am scared, I will do it because I can't care about it too much."
Kevin on the other hand seemed rather relaxed:
"This is easy compared to when I was filming abroad and had to dive off the top and plummet down the cliff, now that was scary!"
Charmaine did not have to do any climbing like the male stars. Having previously been rumoured with Sheren Tang and Sharon Chan, Kevin was asked if he would be buying them Christmas presents. He says:
"The most important woman in my heart is my mother and even she may have to go and choose her own present. I will then pay her back for it!"
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Filming Assigning Teams Event
Filming Begining Eating Competition
Filming Noodle-Eating Competition
Filming Final Racing Competition
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