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A Table For one (Is Great Too) 2 (就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2)

A Table For one (Is Great Too) 2 (就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2, short title 《好好吃饭2》) is a 2025 Taiwanese food-therapy romance miniseries, the second season of Public Television Service's PTS+ original series A Table For One (Is Great Too) (就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭). Released in two parts on the PTS+ streaming service and LINE TV, part 1 premiered on 1 November 2025 and part 2 on 11 November 2025.1 • 2 The season continues the first season's theme of food healing the heart, shifting the setting to a guesthouse and adding interwoven storylines for multiple couples.1

Key factDetail
Native title就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2 (abbreviated 《好好吃饭2》)1
ReleasePart 1 on 1 November 2025; part 2 on 11 November 2025, on PTS+ and LINE TV1 • 2
Format9 episodes of 15 minutes each, a short-form rhythm close to the vertical-screen drama style1
LeadsHu Yu-wei (胡宇威) as Thomas and Li Ling-wei (李玲苇) as Emily, returning from season 13
PremiseTwo leads living three years apart, Emily in 2025 and Thomas in 2028, stay in the same guesthouse and heal themselves and their guests through cooking and desserts4
OriginSecond season of PTS+'s first self-produced drama, written by Golden Bell screenwriter Huang Yu-chia (黄雨佳) and directed by Cheng Chih-liang (郑志良) and Cha Di-chi (查迪奇)5
ReceptionPart 1 reached number two on the PTS+ hot ranking; in PTS Q1 2026 data the season ranked 10th among dramas with 39,256 viewing minutes6 • 7

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Plot and characters

The season's "eating-alone philosophy" centers on two leads in two different years: Emily in 2025 and Thomas in 2028. Both step out of their comfort zones into a guesthouse with strangers, and the story asks how modern people reconcile with loneliness at their own dinner tables.4 In the story, one year after the first season, on the same date three years apart, Emily and Thomas fatefully stay in the same guesthouse, whose owner is Emily's cousin and Thomas's university junior and business partner; the two become temporary guesthouse agents and, through cooking and desserts, heal themselves and the travelers who lodge there.11

Hu's Thomas is described as a "cooking boyfriend" who comforts people with food, and in this season acts like the guesthouse's "emotional head chef," cooking, consoling, and solving problems.1 The season weaves several relationship lines around the leads: Yao Yi-ti plays Fan Xiang (范湘), Thomas's "demon-level" ex-girlfriend whose sudden stay at the guesthouse creates a love triangle with Emily; Lien Chen-hsiang (连晨翔) plays a heartthrob writer pursued by his reader Emily; and Hsu Chun-hao (徐钧浩) plays "Hongdou Ni" (Red Bean Paste), who shares heart-to-heart camping talks with Thomas.1 Other storylines include a mature romance between Yang Kuei-mei (杨贵媚) and Fu Lei (傅雷), a gay couple played by Chu Meng-hsuan (初孟轩) and Hsu Chun-hao, and a marriage-gap pairing of Liao Yi-chiao (廖苡乔) and Lin Chun-yao (林骏尧).12

In the first season the two leads had been parallel lines in the same space who never met; the romance chapter only truly opens in part 2 of this season, and the essence of their relationship is distilled into one dish, a smoked salmon macaron, the pair's only joint cooking scene.13 The ending theme, "Boiling" (煮沸), is sung by babyMINT's Yun (丞妘) and +How's Li Jia-hao (李家皓), weaving gentle vocals with rap.1

Background: the first season

The series began as A Table For One (Is Great Too) (就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭), PTS+'s first self-produced mini-drama, created for mobile viewers and built around solitude, food, and self-healing. It was written by Golden Bell screenwriter Huang Yu-chia and directed by Cheng Chih-liang and Cha Di-chi, with Hu Yu-wei and Li Ling-wei starring.5 The first season followed two people in the same kitchen but in time periods three years apart: Thomas, an interior designer afraid of being alone after his fiancée broke off their engagement, and Emily, a socially anxious office newcomer; each learned to live through cooking and home-fermented fruit wine.5 All six episodes, each about 15 minutes, were uploaded to PTS+ on 30 April 2024, and the show took first place on the platform's hot-play ranking from the day after release.8 In July 2024, overseas versions with English and Japanese subtitles were placed on YouTube.9

Production

Filming for the second season formally began in late June 2025, again led by Hu Yu-wei and Li Ling-wei, with the story exploring life and love through food.3 The season takes guesthouse management as its main axis, extending the first season's focus from cooking to the human connections of a lodging space.10 Hu Yu-wei said that where the first season was about walking out of heartbreak, the second brings new attraction and push-pull, and that his character learns other ways of understanding love through exchanges with the guesthouse's customers.3 Li Ling-wei, a dessert lover in and out of the role, took baking classes for the part; the season's most difficult dish for Hu was wood-oven pizza, and Li highlighted a creative sweet-savory dish, macaron with cured salmon.3

The 15-minute episode length is a deliberate constraint. Hu described acting in the format as like riding a roller coaster: with storyboards, rhythm, and camera language sharpened since season 1, a scene may have to be completed within a minute, and sometimes a scene lasts only a few seconds, testing an actor's focus and emotional control.1 Yao Yi-ti (姚以缇), who moves between large and small screens, added that the nine-episode, 15-minutes-per-episode structure puts heavy demands on the editor.1

Release and reception

Part 1 went live on PTS+ and LINE TV on 1 November 2025, with a premiere event at Spot Huashan on 30 October attended by Hu Yu-wei, Li Ling-wei, Yao Yi-ti, Hsu Chun-hao, and Lien Chen-hsiang; part 2 followed on 11 November 2025.1 • 2 Part 1 quickly reached number two on the PTS+ hot ranking, with viewers praising the food scenes and calling the show a good companion to a meal; the couple played by Chu Meng-hsuan and Hsu Chun-hao, "Brownie and Red Bean Paste," drew particular discussion as their story moved from a forest wedding to a painful separation.6

In PTS's own viewing data for the first quarter of 2026, season 2 ranked 10th among drama programs on the platform with 39,256 viewing minutes and 5,236 views, ahead of season 1, which ranked 17th with 15,759 viewing minutes; the second season's release also drove rewatching of the first.7 • 14 Episode counts differ slightly across databases: PTS and LINE TV list 9 episodes, while NeoDB lists 8.1 • 12

References

  1. 公视+《就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2》11/1上架 胡宇威挑战演戏节奏, Public Television Service (2025-10-30)
  2. 《就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2》第二部上架 三角修罗场, Public Television Service (2025-11-11)
  3. 公视+食疗影集开镜 胡宇威、李玲苇相约好好吃饭, Central News Agency (2025-07-06)
  4. 公视+ 温柔疗愈的独食哲学《就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2》, PTS Friends magazine
  5. 公视+首部自制剧《就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭》开镜, Public Television Service (2024-03-16)
  6. 公视+《就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2》「爱到失去自己」引共鸣, Public Television Service (2025-11-08)
  7. 公视 2026 年第一季节目收视资料, Public Television Service
  8. 《好好的吃饭》霸榜公视+ 胡宇威李玲苇做料理好疗愈, Public Television Service (2024-05-26)
  9. 就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭, MJCW Studios
  10. 公视+《就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2》开镜 胡宇威：这季像碗酸辣汤, Youth Daily News
  11. 就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭 - 第二季 第1集, LINE TV
  12. 就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2, NeoDB
  13. 公视+《就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭2》李玲苇崩溃痛哭 和胡宇威相拥落泪, Public Television Service (2025-11-16)
  14. 公视 2025 年 10 月至 12 月戏剧类节目收视资料, Public Television Service

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026

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