Hainan Kopi Tales

Name: Hainan Kopi Tales
Genre: Drama
Released: 2000-07-25
Cast: Shawn Lee, Catherine Sng, Florence Tan

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2000
46m

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Using the famous Hainan coffeeshop as a backdrop, this nostalgic drama explores the Hainanese way of life from the 60s to the 80s. Long Fu Yuan, a Hainanese coffeeshop owner, has two sons (A... Read allUsing the famous Hainan coffeeshop as a backdrop, this nostalgic drama explores the Hainanese way of life from the 60s to the 80s. Long Fu Yuan, a Hainanese coffeeshop owner, has two sons (Ah Sing and Ah Zhuo) with his second wife in Indonesia. Long's first wife constantly makes ... Read allUsing the famous Hainan coffeeshop as a backdrop, this nostalgic drama explores the Hainanese way of life from the 60s to the 80s. Long Fu Yuan, a Hainanese coffeeshop owner, has two sons (Ah Sing and Ah Zhuo) with his second wife in Indonesia. Long's first wife constantly makes life difficult for his second wife and her sons when they move to Singapore. Ah Sing (Chor... Read all

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According to the Singapore Department of Statistics, Singaporeans who claim Chinese ancestry and of Hainanese origin has been consistently the fifth largest as amongst the various Chinese dialect groups, after (in descending order) the Hokkiens, Teochews, Cantonese, Hakkas.

The Hainanese may have been especially associated with working in the services industry during colonial times due to how the other industries has been dominated by the other Chinese dialect groups in Singapore by the time the Hainanese arrived, but it would give rise to what the main core of the drama series is about, the Hainanese way of life in Singapore through amongst many things, the coffeeshop.