I sometimes feel that Taiwanese dramas are underrated, but I'm crazy in love with them. In this collection, I'm making a top 10 from my favorite Taiwanese dramas on Viki!

I 💖 Taiwanese dramas

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Can memories of true love be truly lost forever? Ren Guang Xi (Vanness Wu) has the world at his feet. The law student is the sole heir to a wealthy family business, is athletic, and blessed with great looks and charisma. His mother also has her sights set on a wife for him, the beautiful and kind He Yi Qian (Tiffany Hsu), a medical student. But instead, Guang Xi falls in love with Liang Mu Cheng (Ady An), a new employee in his school cafeteria with an infectious zest for life despite growing up as an orphan. But when a tragedy forces Guang Xi to suddenly undergo brain surgery, his mother tells Mu Cheng that he will not have any memories of his past after the surgery and forces Mu Cheng to leave him. Six years later in a rural village, Mu Cheng lives a quiet life with her son, Xiao Le (Xiao Xiao Bin). But then Guang Xi, now a high-powered attorney, arrives in the village to serve out a court-mandated community service and befriends the two with no memory of his past with Mu Cheng. Can a strangely moving piano concerto stir up the lost memories of his love for Mu Cheng and help him understand why he feels a special bond with her son?
 
“Autumn’s Concerto” is a Taiwanese drama series directed by Chen Hui Ling that originally aired on TTV from October 2009 to February 2010. Nominated for the Best Marketing Programme at the 45th Golden Bell Awards in Taiwan, the series is credited for making child actor Xiao Xiao Bin into a superstar and is the second highest-rated Taiwanese idol drama after “Fated to Love You” (2008).

Autumn's Concerto

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When Chen Xin Yi tries to save her relationship with her no-good boyfriend, she mistakenly sleeps with a total stranger, Ji Cun Xi. Although they try to forget about the one-night stand, Xin Yi later discovers that she is pregnant. When the family of Cun Xi, who is the sole male heir to a successful family business, discovers that Xin Yi is having his baby, they force the two to marry. Will the pushover Xin Yi learn to stand up for herself or will fate have other plans for her?

Fated to Love You

Fated to Love You Team

A man loses everything in one day in a tragic car accident. Fang Zhan Cheng (Kingone Wang) lost his fiancée, Liang Luo Han (Kirsten Ren), but he also lost his own eyesight. Devastated by the loss of his fiancée, Zhan Cheng is inconsolable and even refuses a corneal transplant that could restore his vision. But his life takes an unexpected turn when Wang Yu Xi (Kirsten Ren), who looks exactly like his fiancée, is hired to become Zhan Cheng’s day nurse. Another young woman, Xu Ya Ti (Nita Lei), receives Luo Han’s heart in a transplant and begins to exhibit many of Luo Han’s mannerisms and personality. Caught between a woman who looks exactly like his beloved dead fiancée and another woman who behaves just like her, what will Zhan Cheng do? “Someone Like You” is a 2015 Taiwanese drama series directed by Chen Rong Hui.

Someone Like You

The Irreplaceable Team

Qi Yi (Aaron Yan) is a fastidious young man who is afraid of germs and needs to have everything in his life in his own orderly fashion. After he gives up a successful opportunity in New York, he returns to Taiwan and decides to buy a small marketing design company called GAZE and a historic home that catches his eye. The problem is that the home has a peppy tenant, Cheng Liang Liang (Puff Guo), who refuses to move out. When he arrives at his new company, the new CEO discovers that Liang Liang also works for his company. The happy-go-lucky Liang Liang just wants everything to be stable in her life, but she realizes that may be harder to maintain when her new boss starts making big changes in her workplace, including a notice stating that office romances will be prohibited. “Just You” is a 2013 Taiwanese drama series that airs on SETTV.

Just You

Just Your Team

Can anything be more important than comics and good food? 

Du Kai Qi (Puff Guo) is an independent, single woman who loves comic books and her job as a sous chef in the fine-dining French restaurant, Figaro Cuisine. When an unassuming man, Fu Zi Jie (Jasper Liu), moves in next door, they immediately begin to bicker over trivial matters. 

But when Zi Jie shows up as a new employee at her restaurant, Kai Qi, as well as other staff members, mistake him for a lowly intern, not knowing that Zi Jie is a classically trained chef who just returned from France and that Figaro Cuisine is actually his father’s restaurant. 

Can Zi Jie help save Kai Qi from the wrath of the mysterious “Chef Louis”? 

“Love Myself or You” is a 2014 Taiwanese drama series.

Love Myself or You

Figaro Cuisine Squad

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What do netizens know? Huo Tingen (Chris Wu) is a celebrated chef whose fine-dining restaurant is a destination for food lovers from all over the world. When Tingen stumbles upon comments on the Internet from people who can’t afford to eat at his high-priced restaurant, they blow his mind. Netizens claim that the culinary creations made by Wei Fenqing (Ivy Shao) at the night market are just as satisfying as Tingen’s Michelin-worthy food. Determined to debunk such preposterous claims, Tingen goes to the night market to find Fenqing and show her what true culinary talent really is. Whose cuisine will reign supreme? “The Perfect Match” is a 2017 Taiwanese drama series.

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