Chu is the head of the family and father of three very different daughters. Spending much of his time alone, the widowed Mr. Chu lives a quiet and simple life, obsessively cooking for the family's weekly Sunday dinners and doing his daughters' laundry while they work at their respective jobs. His single-parent behavior contrasts with the nuclear family values ​​dictated by the modernized Taiwanese family structure. Although she holds much authority as a renowned chef in a famous hotel as well as in her own home, she fulfills both gender roles, that of mother and that of father, as demonstrated by cooking and caring for her daughters. This clearly contrasts with both traditional and modern gender roles of Taiwanese people; as a man, Mr. Chu occupies his esteemed position as head chef, but at home he essentially takes care of household chores for his daughters, actions that undermine his dominant male authority. Mr. Chu also represents Taiwan in this situation, showing how traditional and modern gender roles clash and yet manage to continue to coexist. Unfortunately, his unstable daughters feel obligated to stay with him instead of pursuing their own passions. The daughters' feelings symbolize how the traditional aspect of having a large or extended family holds younger generations back from their desire for independence. Each daughter also embodies a “juxtaposition of contradictions” in terms of “signs of cultures and influences colliding and synthesizing” (Dilley