FINDING LOST LOVE IN TASTE

A Taiwan–Japan co-development that explores the ties between food, emotion, and history, creating an LGBT IP story infused with the distinctive atmosphere of colonial-era history.

A chef named Sayo, who has lost her passion for cooking, travels to Taiwan’s north coast guided by an old photo from her Okinawan grandmother, hoping to recapture the taste of Grandma’s gua-zai-rou rice (braised pork with pickled cucumbers over rice). There she meets Chih-ching, the heiress of a Taiwanese-cuisine restaurant; dish by dish, they heal each other and uncover a secret romance from the previous generation long buried in history…