Unique Flavor () is a Taiwanese Hokkien television drama that began airing on SET Taiwan in Taiwan on 16 August 2006, from Mondays to Fridays, and ended on 19 September 2007, with a total of 286 episodes.
It is directed by Fung Kai, with advisor Zhou You (å¨游).
The slogan for Unique Flavor is Good, Interesting, True (好å³ãÂÂ趣å³ãÂÂçÂÂæ å³).
The casts are classified according to the families they belong to in the drama.
Otsu-mi-ya is a Japanese restaurant in the drama with the name in Chinese characters/Kanji "ä¹Âå³å±Â". It is pronounced as ãÂÂã¤ã¿ãÂÂ(otsu-mi-ya) in Japanese and Yàwèi wà « in Mandarin. The Japanese pronunciation was never mentioned in the drama.
Domoto (Japanese: å Âæ¬; Romaji: Dà Âmoto) is a Japanese surname. Japanese surnames are in Chinese characters or Kanji due to Sinicization in Japan. In Mandarin, the surname is pronounced as TángbÃÂn. All "Japanese" in this drama were in fact acted by Taiwanese actors.
, the show airs in Taiwan, country of origin of the drama every weeknight at prime time (20:00) with episodes which have ranged in length from 135 to 150 minutes including commercial advertisements. The producers received funding from the Government Information Office to produce the series in high definition.
Due to local broadcast laws prohibiting radio or television broadcasts in Chinese dialects the show was dubbed into Mandarin when it aired on MediaCorp Channel 8 thus making it the first channel to broadcast the show in Mandarin. It was the third Taiwan drama to broadcast the show in Singapore.
The Vietnamese dub "Thiên hạ ÃÂá» nhất vá»Â" was broadcast on Vinh Long Television Station Channel (THVL) (Vietnamese: Truyá»Ân Hình Vénh Long) and is streamable on YouTube. The show was aired on Vietface TV from 1pm-2:30pm (PT), however, it was fully aired as it was replaced with Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann. The show is also currently airing on E Channel.
The drama is broadcasting now in 8TV in original Hokkien language under the English title Unique Flavor for two episodes with one hour each from Monday to Friday, at 11:30 MST and 14:00 MST with a 30 minutes break of its Midday Mandarin News at 12:30 MST.