Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1995 Academy Awards, Eat Drink Man Woman depicts the changing father-daughter relationships of a family mediating between traditional values & modern lifestyles all over a dinner table filled to the brim with delicious dishes. Widowed chef Chu (Lung Sihung) has three daughters, all of whom are unmarried & cause him worry. Oldest daughter Jia Jen (Yang Kuei Mei) is a teacher who converted to Christianity & seems content to stay at home. Middle child Jia Chien (Jacklyn Wu) is a strong-minded airline executive who actually wants to be a chef. Youngest daughter Jia Ning (Wang Yu Wen) is a college student who works at a fast food chain. Each is going through issues with work & love that they cant share with their father. Every Sunday, the strict patriarch cooks a banquet spread of a dinner that the daughters are required to attend, however reluctantly.