Original: 高朋滿座
Welcome to the House is a TVB modern sitcom series broadcast from April 2006 to March 2007. The series surrounded the day-to-day lives of the Ko family.
KO YAU PANG is a senior instructor in a Chinese cuisine training school. Besides teaching at school, he loves cooking for the family, too. Today is PANG’s birthday. His family members pretend that they are not going to celebrate with him but they have actually prepared a special surprise for him – PANG’s wife YUET MOON, who cannot cook at all, is going to bake a chocolate cake for him…
YAT MOON learns from his younger sister YAU TSING that YAU YEE spends a lot of money on his clothes but gives very little to the family. YAT MOON exposes the reality to the KO family and all members are enraged. They confiscate all the expensive clothes of YAU YEE and demand him to develop a sense of responsibility towards the family. However, YAU YEE tries to play tricks to the family with his childhood playmate…
YUET MOON never cooks for the family and she enjoys her leisurely life very much. However, she learns that her colleague MEI NA has been deserted by her boyfriend because she cannot cook. YUET MOON is worried… YUET MOON wants to be the perfect wife. She starts to prepare breakfast for YAU PANG and calls him frequently at work. YAU PANG feels nervous with her change…
KO HING quarrels with MIU HEI on trivial matters and he moves to YAU PANG’s house with anger. He plays Erhu at the balcony. Somebody cannot withstand the noise and this person throws rubbish to him. HING is enraged and he shouts back. The caster takes revenge and throws even more rubbish to him and all family members are disturbed as well. At the end, HEI discovers that the caster is actually…
PANG’s relatives invite the KO family to their daughter’s wedding banquet. However, YAT MOON is not on the list for his surname is not KO. YAT MOON is unhappy and eats cup noodle alone at home. On the next day, YAT MOON is absent for the family’s morning tea gathering. HING discovers that YAT MOON is hanging around with a staff at the pharmacy. PANG and YUET MOON worry that YAT MOON will make bad friends. They decide to…
PANG’s daughter TING tries hard to please every family member for she wants PANG to buy her a piano. PANG finally agrees to buy the piano but TING gives up learning piano very soon and she claims that she has no talents on music. TING starts to learn Thai boxing. PANG rushes to the Thai Boxing School and urges TING to continue learning piano. The Thai boxing instructor appreciates PANG very much and urges PANG to become his student. PANG has no choice but to give it a try in order to please TING…
The frequent customers of HING’s pharmacy appreciate their new Chinese doctor SANG very much and HING is upset. HING starts a quarrel with HEI and HEI asks HING to take charge of the family financial matters. HING checks up the price in every supermarket. He also agrees to buy everything for all family members and everyone is pleased. However, HING has eventually bought too much and their home becomes a warehouse. Everybody finds it unbearable.
YEE always have bad luck. He runs into an old friend who works as a fortuneteller. His friend helps him to identify his lucky star and the person who brings disasters to him. YEE confirms that YAU PANG is his lucky star and YAT MOON is the person who brings disasters to him. YEE therefore starts setting up geomantic formation at the house and everybody is puzzled about it. YAT MOON is upset about this and challenges YEE to a bet on their horse gambling result…
PANG wants to celebrate his 17th wedding anniversary with YUET MOON alone. He spends a lot of money and efforts to drive the family members away. However, his travel plan has become a family shopping tour unexpectedly. HING promises to help them by keeping the family members away so that PANG could travel with YUET MOON alone. Unfortunately, YUET MOON is sick on their departure date…
HING has eaten a mango secretly, which causes great trouble to the family and he feels very embarrassed. HING returns to the pharmacy and discovers that SANG has given wrong prescription to a patient but his family members do not believe in him. HING insists that his is right but his family members reject him from their family gathering. HING is very upset and he takes a walk to the hill where he finds a little turtle. HING brings the turtle home and keep it as a pet. YUET MOON is allergic to turtles but HING refuses to give up his lovely pet…
YAT MOON is a courier and he tries to be punctual in every ways. His customers appreciate him very much and he is very proud of himself. However, the KO family doesn’t take time seriously. They always give excuse for their habitual lateness and he is upset. One day, he changes drastically and doesn’t follow his schedule at all and all family members are puzzled. They decide to…
The KO family goes to a Pizza shop and the staff there treats them extraordinarily well. They discover that this is because TING has been labeled as the new student idol in a youth magazine. PANG worries that TING will abandon her studies and decides to move her to another school. PANG returns to his cuisine training school to discover that a magazine has nominated him as the Outstanding Chef of the New Generation. Every neighbor treats PANG nicely and enthusiastically. PANG is overjoyed but his happiness doesn’t last…
MIU HEI and YUET MOON are the mother and daughter-in-law in the KO family. Both of them love watching TV very much. This evening, they are going to miss the grand finale of their favorite TV show since they have bought tickets for a stage performance. MIU HEI asks YUET MOON to pre-record the TV show but they return at night to discover that the video recorder is not working. The in-laws start a quarrel for this. However, the one who is responsible for this is actually…
TSING makes friends on the Internet and borrows money to her net friends generously. Everybody is worried about her and YAT MOON tries to warn TSING with all the female family members. However, HING believes that this is a good chance for TSING to learn a lesson. He asks YEE to play tricks on TSING by pretending to be a university student and date her on the Internet. He then asks others to threaten TSING when she shows up but TSING suddenly disappears…
HEI is a very clever and efficient person. She likes to call herself the Smart Detective and always try to solve problems with detective methods. The pipes inside their toilet are blocked and HEI decides to find out the cause. She checks through the CCTV and concludes that the problem causer must be PANG, YEE or HING. HEI therefore set up a family court to interrogate the three “suspects”…
Recently, YEE returns home very late every day and TSING discovers lipstick marks on his shirt. Everybody suspect that YEE is dating but PANG discovers that YEE’s rumored lover is the widely discussed star in town - ICY. YEE is being reported as an “Insurance Gigolo” in a magazine and all family members are shocked. They try to question YEE but YEE refuses to reveal the truth. They therefore try to tail after YEE to look for the answer…
YEE is very sociable while YAT MOON is an introvert. Hoping to broaden YAT MOON’s social circle, YEE always bring him to his networking parties and friends gathering. YAT MOON is having a holiday alone. He feels lonely and suddenly realizes the importance of friends. HING consoles him by giving him a little turtle as his companion. An Internet virus is spreading around swiftly and everybody feels helpless. YAT MOON suddenly becomes the super star of the family because he knows how to kill the virus…
YUET MOON is influenced by her boss and would like to actualize her dream of the younger days. Her boss HENRY suddenly recommends her to learn Yoga in India and this Yoga course will last for 3 years. PANG doesn’t want her to leave but he finally supports her because this is her dream. PANG and YAT MOON believe that YUET MOON is spoiled by PANG for a long time and she wouldn’t be able to take care of herself alone. They therefore decide to give her a formal training…
PANG is shocked to find that he cannot control the knife as tactfully as before when he is doing the preparation work for a cooking class. At the same time, PANG’s boss asks him to join a cooking contest and PANG feels stressful. He tries to center all his hopes on TING and scolds her on trivial matters. YEE and YAT MOON learn about PANG’s worries and HEI comes up with a plan to help PANG…
HING catches a thief while quarreling with HEI in the pharmacy. HING is very proud of himself and tells his heroic deeds to all family members in the evening. Everyone admires him a lot. On the next day, HING receives a parcel and he starts to act strangely. HEI finds that HING has booked an air ticket to England. HING claims that he want to visit the relatives with his good friend but the truth is that he has to settle a problem created by his father’s secret mistress…
The Ko family has received a cassette tape from LAI, the daughter of the secret mistress. Everybody is worried that LAI will take revenge on them. HING claims that he is not afraid but he secretly worries a lot. LAI arrives at the KO family suddenly where she meets TING. TING has disappeared. PANG learns that TING has been sent to the hospital and discovers the real motive of LAI…
LAI reveals her motive of coming to Hong Kong and HING is deeply touched. LAI spends a lot of money on all family members. In order to thank her, HING asks her to stay in his house. LAI has a morbid fear of getting dirty and everyone finds it unbearable. They overhear LAI’s telephone conversation with her landlady. They misconceive that LAI is in need of money. They therefore plan to raise money for her…
LAI decides to stay and live with the KO family. She is a righteous person and believes that all family members should share the workload of HEI. HEI works too much and hurts her waist. LAI seizes the chance to allocate the housework to everybody. YEE is lazy and makes use of TSING to do his job. TSING hurts herself while doing the housework but YEE has no regrets at all…
PANG discovers that his family members spend money irrationally in order to exchange for freebies from credit card companies. PANG scolds them but they do not listen to him. HING and HEI quarrel with each all the time on their TV programme preference. PANG promises to buy them an additional TV. YUET MOON discovers that a free TV could be obtained by spending a certain amount of money with a credit card. PANG and YUET MOON try very hard to spend money with the credit card and they finally meet their targeted expenditure. They therefore rush to redeem the TV but something bad happens…
PANG tries to please the members in the Parent Club of TING’s school so that TING could have a chance to perform on stage. However, he finds that both the President and the Vice-president of the Parent Club are unreasonable and he scolds them out of anger. YUET MOON tries to make reparation by inviting all member of the Parent Club to a free trial in her Yoga Center. TING finally gets the hint and the Parent Club accepts her performance suggestion. However, TING is not being chosen to be the heroine…
HING finds that his old friend has a very dutiful son and he is unhappy for PANG didn’t inherit his Chinese medicine business. HING asks LAI to work and learn in his pharmacy. All staff asks for day off when LAI comes to work at the pharmacy. HEI is sick as well and LAI has to take up all the works. However, HING returns after his afternoon nap to discover that all the works are done…
The Ko family is watching TV when they are disturbed by the neighbor upstairs. Because of this neighbor, they missed their favorite TV show and all members develop hatred towards this neighbor. YEE deliberately hides away this neighbor’s slippers. When he tries to return the slippers, he discovers that this neighbor has moved away already. She has also left a piece of paper with all kinds of curse on it. These curses happen to come true on each and every KO family members…
An old restaurant “KO NGA Restaurant” is going to close down and everybody wants to go to its farewell concert. As only couples are welcome, YAT MOON is worried for he has no lover. YUET MOON tries to promote him to people in her Yoga Center. NA, a girl with lots of love experience, is interested in him. YUET MOON tries to create chance for them by asking YAT MOON to repair NA’s computer. However, YAT MOON is only interested in the computer and pays no attention to NA…
HING joins the “Elderly Walk for Millions” and his picture hits the headlines. HING is very proud of himself but his family members tease him. HING is enraged and decides to achieve something great in his life. TING is touched by his enthusiasm and suggests him to write a book on KO family’s medical expertise. HING requests everybody to write the preface of his book. They try very hard to finish the preface but the content is missing…
LAI treats everybody to a buffet. People in the restaurant are wasting food seriously. HING finds it unbearable and asks all family members to leave. The Ko family tries to have a family buffet. However, they have bought many bad quality food and some members suggest throwing the food away. PANG insists that they should not waste the food. He asks his family members to finish the food but they are reluctant to do so. TING tries to mediate between them by suggesting them to join a “30-Hour Hunger Strike” activity…
TING asks all family members to donate their old clothes for charity purpose. LAI finds a pair of old trousers from YEE. The trousers were given by HING, which implicates the love of the KO family. However, YEE wants to give it away and PANG blames him for being heartless. YEE plays tricks and passes old clothes to them. HING, HEI and PANG finally understand why YEE doesn’t like old clothes…
YEE’s ex-girlfriend CHING suddenly returns to Hong Kong from abroad. CHING has become the CEO of a multinational company. CHING invites YEE to a dinner and asks him to reunite with her. She asks YEE to break off with his family and get married with her. YEE escapes to the MTR station where he meets the Customer Service Officer MAN. YEE falls in love with her instantly and tries different ways to meet her again. He believes that this is fate…
PANG wins an award for his talent in cooking and he shouts “I Love You” to YUET MOON excitedly. HEI feels jealous since HING never says “I Love You” to her. HEI tries every ways to urge HING to reveal his love to her but to no avail. HING wants to maintain his dignity and refuses to give sweet talk to HEI. HEI is enraged and kicks him out of the house. HING plays trick by …
The owner of a wedding shop asks TSING to take some promotional photos with wedding gown. A talent scout sees the photos and invites TSING to join a supermodel contest. All family members support TSING. YUET MOON invites the ex-supermodel HENRY to teach TSING. TSING tries very hard and she finally becomes a supermodel on the contest day. PANG celebrates her success by preparing some honey chicken wings to her but…
LAI is sick and she visits a doctor in a hospital. YEE discovers that LAI didn’t buy any medical insurance and he urges LAI to buy one. LAI hesitates for she believes that YEE is not professional enough based on his daily behaviors. Ironically, LAI has more confidence on another staff at the pharmacy who is a part-time insurance broker. YEE is upset and he finally finds a chance to justify his professionalism to LAI…
TING meets a dog on her way home. This dog follows her all the way and TING decides to bring it home. PANG suggests TING to bring it to SPCA but TING insists to keep it as her pet. However, TING doesn’t know how to take care of a dog and she finally wants to give it up. TING tries to leave it alone in the lift and PANG is enraged with her action. TING promises to amend her mistake but …
YEE wants to bring everyone to a free buffet. However, since he couldn’t get in touch with LAI on time, the whole family missed the buffet hour. All family members decide to buy LAI a mobile phone but LAI doesn’t want to lose her freedom. HEI discovers that the power consumption has increased drastically. This is because LAI has bought some electrical appliances for her private use at her room. This has lead to a power failure and PANG blames LAI for this. LAI announces that she wants to move away…
YAT MOON is interested in a new PDA mobile phone. Luckily, he obtains a golden coin while eating chocolate. This golden coin can be used to exchange for the PDA mobile phone he likes. YAT MOON doesn’t want to share the prize with others so he hides the golden coin in the glutinous rice bin. The Dragon Boat Festival is coming. The Ko family takes out the glutinous rice to make glutinous rice dumplings. YAT MOON doesn’t want to reveal the truth so he voluntarily helps to deliver the dumplings. He hopes to find the golden coin but it is missing…
HEI is proud of her good memory. She teases YEE with her good memory all the time and everyone finds it unbearable. PANG and YUET MOON recall their sweet love stories in the past and HEI feels jealous. She asks HING to recall their past love stories but HING doesn’t show any response. HEI is enraged. HEI forgets the name of the famous song “Unforgettable”, she becomes absent-minded all the time. Fortunately, HING knows how to help her…
YEErepresents his company to give speech at a university. However, many of his pronunciations are unclear and everybody finds his speech uninteresting. TING wants to point out YEE’s pronunciation error but HEI believes that this would damage YEE’s self-esteem. YEE believes that he is an excellent speaker and tries to give speech to the family. Everybody finds it unbearable and reveal to him that many of his pronunciations are wrong. YEE is very upset and he…
HING doesn’t care about his diet all the time. He always eats food with high cholesterol and his family members are worried about him. HEI has heartache and her family members accompany her to the hospital. Everyone seize the chance to have a body check. It is found that TSING has got a very high level of cholesterol since she eats snacks all the time. TSING tries to avoid eating snacks completely but she founds it extremely unbearable. YAT MOON tries to back her up by avoiding snacks as well. However, since he consumes lots of energy during work, he eventually faints…
HENRY joins a cooking contest and he asks YUET MOON to try his dishes. YUET MOON doesn’t want to hurt him so she tells lies. YUET MOON finds that LAI has muscle pain and asks her to practice yoga in the yoga center. HENRY hurts his waist while practicing yoga because of LAI. LAI wants to use acupuncture therapy to help HENRY. However, she is scared of HENRY’s hairy body and makes a mistake during the therapy. HENRY loses his sense of taste after the therapy but he insists to join the cooking contest…
YEE used to be a dancer in MTV and his show is rebroadcast on TV. All family members tease him for his poor dance performance. YEE visits HENRY on the next day and he has a conflict with NA on trivial things. NA meets YEE again on the street and teases YEE for his poor dance performance. Feeling embarrassed, YEE returns home and meets MAN – the girl whom he secretly adores. YEE learns that MAN is collecting magnetic souvenirs from the convenience store. YEE therefore tries to steal the magnetic souvenirs from YAT MOON. MAN treats YEE for a meal and YEE discovers that MAN has a lover already…
YEE is depressed for MAN has got a lover already. He tries to indulge himself in work so that his family members wouldn’t notice that he is actually desperate. YEE wants to present an insurance plan to HENRY so he makes friends with NA. His family members misconceive that YEE dates NA as a substitute for MAN. YEE treats NA as a good friend who shares the same interests only but his family members doesn’t believe in him. While YEE doesn’t know how to explain himself, he meets MAN again…
TING’s head-teacher asks PANG to pay more attention to TING for her school results have gone backward. PANG is worried and forces TING to revise her study materials frequently. All family members also try to help TING in their own ways and TING finds it unbearable. PANG suggests TING to take lessons of a famous tutor in the tutorial center but everybody later discovers that the lessons are not as useful as what they have expected. HING accompanies TING to the class and starts a contest with the famous tutor on their knowledge in Chinese History…
YEE tries to hide away from NA so that she will give him up. His family members object the idea and suggest YEE to tell her the truth face to face. NA doesn’t want to lose YEE and she asks HENRY to give her advice. HENRY teaches NA to build up a good relationship with YEE’s family members. NA takes action and successful wins the friendship of them. YEE wants to unmask NA’s tricks but all family members are on her side already…
YEE doesn’t know how to resist NA and they eventually become lovers. However, the KO family worries that YEE is not compatible with NA since NA is a well educated, well-paid and well-mannered lady. HING wants to pull NA and the other family members together. He forces NA to learn cooking, watch TV shows with all family members and go worshiping in the temple all the way up the hill. NA finds it unbearable. She wants to stay with YEE alone and asks HENRY for advice but …
YAT MOON believes that YEE is busy with his new love so he invites other friends to play badminton with him. However, YEE asks YAT MOON to take him away. PANG discovers that YEE still loves MAN even though she has got a lover. PANG and all family members blame YEE for not being devoted. YEE finally decides to separate with NA. HING tries to tell NA about YEE’s decision but NA suddenly faints in front of them. It turns out that NA has got an incurable disease…
NA tells lies by claiming that she is suffering from an incurable disease. YEE therefore tries to please her in every way. The KO family even invites NA to live with them. NA is jealous for YEE’s having a very good relationship with his family members. She plays tricks and asks YEE to buy her some late night snacks. YEE meets MAN accidentally at the MTR station. MAN tells YEE that she has broke up with her boyfriend. YEE feels desperate for he has got a lover already. The family members blame TSING for breaking the family rules. YAT MOON checks out the CCTV and realizes that everything was done by NA…
Everybody realizes that NA is the one who breaks the family rules and they treat NA badly. YEE, on the other hand, stands by NA’s side to fight against his family members. NA is pleased. YEE decides to set up his own business. He asks HING to give him some money but HING refuses. YEE leaves the house to live with NA. After living with YEE, NA discovers that he is actually lazy and irresponsible. NA finds it unbearable and reveals to YEE that she is not suffering from any incurable disease and wants to separate with him…
