ROLLING LOVE (GO! FRIED RICE)

I have finally finished watching all episodes of the Taiwanese drama Rolling Love (Go! Fried Rice). Subtitled, silly; my Mandarin is terrible. (Taiwanese shows are serialized like telanovelas, which is smart and allows neat little stories that aren’t drawn out long enough to use their viewership.) As you may recall, I was watching it because I have a Washington Monument-sized crush on the star, Jiro Wang, who is essentially the Justin Timberlake of Taiwan, insofar that he is the leader and clear force behind the boyband Fahrenheit, and he is also an unexpectedly talented actor, whose smile is lopsided and adorable but whose demeanor is pure masculine. JIRO WANG, PURRRRRR ROWR. Here he s playing Mi Qi Lin in “Rolling Love”; he is the man-dude in the white chef outfit.
I digress. “Rolling Love” is about Mi Qi Lin, maker of the most excellent fried rice in the land and owner of a fried rice diner in a provincial beachside town; the lovely singer Guan Xiao Shu, who is blind after a freak car accident in which her potential boyf Leng Lie was driving, and will never forgive himself. Leng Lie, by the way, is the most famous and revered gourmet chef in Taiwan. Obviously, a love triangle was inevitable wherein Mi Qi Lin and his bumbling earnestness attempts to win over Xiao Shu, while Leng Lie wants to take care of her for the rest of eternity, possibly from guilt. Marriage proposals, a kidnapping, a near-death experience, a brain tumor, a tabloid scandal, a temporary regaining of sight, and a few deaths ensue. The show is so awesome and addictive! And ridiculous! The dude who plays Leng Li is totally hot, too, but he doesn’t have the charisma of Jiro Wang. He is also a singer in real life, as is the lady who plays Xiao Shu. Apparently it is easier to multitask your career in smaller countries. I am sorry I keep talking about these dudes, but whatever, I am a girl and there are only like two weeks left in summer. I have to make it count before I start hibernating for the winter. (There’s only enough room in my underground chambers for me and the nuts I collected at harvest. [No blowjo.])
If you wanna watch it, it’s all here, with English subtitles. I’m so sad it’s over, but DramaWiki says Jiro is filming another show, “Superstar Express,” with the following synopsis:
Mars is a superstar whose popularity went downhill after a series of negative publicity. His finances went into red alert and he had to find a place to live. He ended up renting a place from Mo Mo, his agoraphobic homebody landlord. He befriended her and her childhood friend Jia Sen, a swimming captain with the intelligence of an 8-year-old.
Um, do you see what American television is missing?!? They get agoraphobic landlords and mentally disabled swim teams and we get fucking “Lipstick Jungle”? THIS SHIT AINT RIGHT.
Jiro with rad font tats:

Jiro wearing nerd glasses and a plastic sauna jacket (he was retaining water):

Jiro dressed like M.I.A. and posing with a water buffalo

Jiro Wang: everybody’s friend