118


Episodic Information

 

Hong Daming (Chew Chor Meng) is a positive and generous man. As his coffee shop and house number are both "118", the people around him gave him the nickname of "118". Together with his wife, Liu Meimei (Pan Ling Ling), he makes a living by running his very owned traditional "kopitiam" known as Yeo Yeo Huat, that is very well-known and well-liked in Tiong Bahru. Whenever someone is in need, they would always seek Daming for help.

His family lives in a 3-room HDB flat and shophouse directly above his traditional kopi tiam Yeo Yeo Huat, which was built during the pre-war years. He has 4 children - Wang Shunfeng (Dennis Chew), Hong Shunshui (Xu Bin), Hong Jinzhi (Ya Hui) and Wang Yuye (Hong Ling).

Having 6 people living in the shophouse HDB flat is cramped-up enough, yet he also rents out a room to "Ah Niang", a middle-aged man whose original name is Li Weiliang (Chen Han Wei). Weiliang studied fashion design in France, but circumstances led him to simply run a stall at Yeo Yeo Huat, selling zongzi with the recipe that his mother left for him.

Weiliang was not the only addition to the cramped flat. Later, Meimei's elder sister – Liu Jiejie (Sheila Sim) and her family comes to live with the Hong family when her husband's business failed. Daming's own younger sister and her daughter also comes to live with him "temporarily" when her husband disappeared mysteriously.

Kind-hearted by nature, Daming feels that they must have come to him because they were at their wit's end. He would rather make room for them by having his own sons Shunfeng and Shunshui sleep in the living room, than to chase them away heartlessly. As such, the story unfolds with this myriad of personalities living under one roof and hanging around Yeo Yeo Huat, where many dramatic yet comedic events took place.

Cast: Chew Chor Meng, Pan Ling Ling, Dennis Chew, Xu Bin, Ya Hui, Hong Ling, Chen Han Wei, Sheila Sim, Chen Tian Wen, Liu Ling Ling, Nick Teo, Carrie Wong, Sora Ma, Cavin Soh, Roy Li, Bryan Wong, Jeanette Aw, Elvin Ng, Brandon Wong, Zhu Hou Ren, Jeremy Chan, Xia Yu, Desmond Ng

Episodes: 218 x 30 minutes 

Languages: Chinese

Production year: 2014, 2016