Hainan Kopi Tales (琼园咖啡香) is a Singaporean Chinese drama serial produced by Mediacorp which aired in year 2000 on Channel 8.
[1] Using Qiong Yuan, a Hainan coffeeshop as a backdrop, this nostalgic drama explores the Hainanese way of life from the 60s to the 80s.
Long Ya Xing quickly got acquainted and dated Liu Yue (a highly educated girl in the neighborhood) but was considered unworthy by the whole neighborhood because Long Ya Xing did not study much and had to work since childhood.
Long Yongbiao is highly educated and shows contempt for those who are uneducated, dating Wu Lifeng but forcing her to read too much, causing her to actively break up.
After being oppressed and exploited too much by first wife of his father, Long Ya Xing (Chew Chor Meng) decides to be sailor in order to avoid her, Long Ya Zhou stay in Singapore to take care his mother (the second wife of his father).
After that, Wu Xinliang was in debt because of betting and had to flee to the Netherlands, leave the cafe to Long Ya Xing and ask Long Ya Xing to take care of his daughter Wu Lifeng.
Long Ya Xing had to sell the cafe to pay the staff and try to find work for her.
Long Ya Xing asked Liu Yue to find a job for Wu Lifeng before getting on the boat, causing Huang Liu Yue to rethink Long Ya Xing's feelings for her.
On the street, Long Yonglin was attacked by robbers, then he was evicted without money to pay for the motel.
That night, he went to the house to fix the lights for Wu Lifeng and revealed his true face that he wanted to have a wife and baby boy for him.
Then he raised Wu Lifeng to bring him into the room to have sex, but his wife just got back in time.
Wu Lifeng was criticized by Long Yongan's daughters for making their mother run away from home.
When Long Ya Xing came to the bakery, he discovered that he immediately stopped his sister-in-law from using those documents.
Long Yonglin was afraid that his parents would find out, so he disguised himself as an old man and entered the shop, but then fought with the same big brother.
The child is Long Yongan's son, realizing that Yonglin was holding him, he asked him to spare his life.
Yonglin said that Bruce Lee never surrendered to the enemy, so he raised his gun and shot himself in the head and died.
When Long Ya Xing was on his way to the sea, he once went to Europe and met Yongbiao, who was working as a coffee shop assistant and bartender there.
Long Ya Xing made an appointment to meet Liu Yue for the last time and then got on a boat to go to the sea.
Long Ya Xing was surprised to see that the lazy Wu Lifeng of the past had disappeared, today's Wu Lifeng is very resilient, ready to do anything and she is still managing the largest coffee farm on Hainan Island.
Long Ya Xing walking in the middle of the open road, reading the diary, learned that Wu Lifeng had lived in Hong Kong very hard, helped by Liu Yue to have a place to live and have a job, the idea of wanting to meet Long Ya Xing when she was successful should she worked harder.
The next day, Long Ya Zhou tried to beat Yongan and then announced that he would quit his job at Qiong Yuan cafe.
Long Ya Zhou mustered the courage to go to Hainan Island, trying to get a job in Huang Liu Yue's coffee factory.
Ya Zhou showed his affection and brought Huang Liu Yue back to Singapore to help Yongan's wife run the bakery.
When Yongan returned from the hospital, he found the bakery flourished thanks to his wife and Long Ya Zhou, Huang Liu Yue.
Then he went to Qiong Yuan cafe and saw Long Ya Xing and Wu Lifeng working hard to serve the customers, making the restaurant so popular.
The drama was filmed in Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau, Kota Tinggi, Malaysia and Singapore.
[1] In Malaysia, Muar's Hainan Association demanded an apology from MediaCorp and requested the remarks to be censored in their foreign export of the show.
[1] In response, MediaCorp released a statement expressing their deep regrets over the remarks and did not intend to hurt the Hainanese in Singapore.