Time can't erase a feeling this strong: Maiden's Vow

Photos from : goggle images XD [from various webs]
Storyline from : spcnet
Other info : dramawiki

WARNING SPOILERS ! XD

Presenting ...

Fong Wong Sei Chung Jau

"Maiden's Vow" is about the four generations of women who have benefitted their family restaurant, House of Phoenix.
** SY's comments

I basically love this show. I finish the entire 30 episodes in one day (yesterday)
It's a really fresh and new kinda show for a long time
since tvb always show the I-Know-What-Will-Happen show !
I basically give it 5/5
I laughed, I cried, I was touched, I was blown away ......

Since this show is about 4 generations of woman played by
Charmaine Sheh and Joe Ma - I will divide the story into 4
I basically love the great-grandmother & great-grandaughter story best !!!!

The story started off with the 4th generation meaning the great- grandaughter telling back the story starting from her great-grandmother

The first generation is in the Qing dynasty. This generation started off with Ngai Ju Fung (Charmaine) and Yue Chi (Joe) being born on the same day. When the two of them were children, they met each other and became friends. Years later, when they were adults, Charmaine was forced to marry Wong Yuk Lun (Sammul) and Chi left to be an apprentice for a famous chef. Although the family Fung married into is wealthy, their wealth did not last because Lun, the spoiled son, was tricked by his uncle and his "girlfriend". So Fung and her family had to survive by opening a restaurant, House of Phoenix, with Chi, who came back from his journey. When House of Phoenix opened, the restaurant was a sucess, but House of Phoenix and its owners faced trouble when war hits and new ideas arrived, along with drugs such as opium.

I can't find other photos.
The costumes in this generation was really pretty
Her wedding gown was grand.
Sadly the day she even got married, was already a day in hell

You know her husband was late for the wedding cause he was busy gambling and he even brought a prositute home and let her stay there cause he was the only son and woman had no say in anything Joe offered to work as a chef in her house to be by her side After they turn poor, Charmaine didn't leave the family

The husband did turn good back but he went to opium ... haizz Charmaine was the one handling the fussy family and hectic restorant. Thank god Joe was by her side all the time [remain as her good friend] I hated the ending of this part, the japanese attacked the train charmaine was in - joe came looking for her but was injuried. Charmaine was involved in a bombing but survived. They were crawling to each other. Before they even touch - both died Which is so sad =(

The second generation is set in the 1920s, a time when Japan tried to take over China. Wong Jee Gwan (Charmaine), daughter to Fung, met Li Gat Cheung (Joe), her teacher, and fell in love with him. However, her family objects and Cheung already had an arranged marriage. The two eloped to Tianjin, but they had little money and so Cheung had to work as a miner. The two had to separate when Cheung fled from Tianjin for protesting for miners. Gwan then went back to House of Phoenix to help her grandmother run the restaurant. Cheung came back two years later, but as a supporter of Japan and he helped a Japanese woman take over House of Phoenix. But it turns out that Cheung was a revolutionary who was secretly spying on Japan. Unfortunately, the Japanese found that out and Cheung had to run away again.

Don't laugh at this hairstyle ..
You know this was my hairstyle in kindergarden XD

Once again I hate the ending cause they had to be apart,
however I like the part they made love at the back of the train =D

In the 1960s, (third generation) Fung's great-granddaughter, Bak Wai Jan (Charmaine), is a housewife. Bored of being a housewife, Jan worked secretly because her husband, Dai Lap Yan (Joe), does not allow her to work. Jan's boss developed feelings for Jan and tried to break Yan's and Jan's marriage. His plan worked and Yan and Jan had a divorce. Jan decided to reopen House of Phoenix again and when she had troubles, Yan helped her and since then the two of them worked together to make House of Phoenix as sucessful as it was before.

This generation story was boring boring. So I skip most of it
However they way they talked was very funny XD

In the modern times (fourth generation) , Dai Sze Ga (Charmaien) and Fong Ga On (Joe) met and fell in love. They lived together, but later broke up because of their differences. Ga then met an old boyfriend and he encourages her to reopen House of Phoenix. Ga had troubles opeing House of Phoenix because her ex-boyfriend was framed and so she decided to open Phoenix Private Kitchen.

Modern world sugar ! XD

While opening Phoenix Private Kitchen, she was pregnant with On's baby. At the time, On went to Shanghi to rebuild his career. About one year and ten months later, he came back and was celebrating the recovery of his career and his sucessful project in Shanghi. He met Ga again and met his baby also when she was celebrating the success of her new book at the same resturant. At the time, Ga did not tell On that the baby was his, but he later found out. After refusing a few times, Ga finally let On in on his baby's life. On still had feelings for Ga and Ga's friend, who is a homeosexual and played by Sammul, likes On. On one unfortunate night, the three of them knew about each other's feelings and they were all feeling down. Not only that, but there is an upcoming competition for chefs to win the jaded chopsticks that were from the Qing dynasty and House of Phoenix is competing in it.