# A Table For One (Is Great Too) (就算一个人也可以好好的吃饭)
**A Table For One (Is Great Too)** (就算一個人也可以好好的吃飯, "Even alone, one can still eat well") is a 2024 Taiwanese healing-themed web mini-series produced for PTS+, the streaming platform of Taiwan's Public Television Service (公視). It was the platform's first self-produced mini-series, running six episodes of fifteen minutes each, and follows two strangers who cook and eat alone in the same apartment kitchen three years apart in time.[1](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Format | 6 episodes × 15 minutes, designed for mobile viewing during commutes or meals[1](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438) • [2](https://dramago.ptsplus.tv/articles/17298/) |
| Premiere | Full season uploaded April 30, 2024, at 12:00 on PTS+[1](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438) |
| Creative team | Written by Golden Bell-winning screenwriter 黃雨佳; directed by 鄭志良 and 查迪奇; produced by 張世傑[1](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438) • [2](https://dramago.ptsplus.tv/articles/17298/) |
| Cast | 胡宇威 (George Hu) as Thomas, 李玲葦 as Emily, with 姚以緹 and 廖苡喬[1](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438) |
| Dual aspect ratios | 16:9 on PTS+; separate 9:16 vertical versions for social media, each presenting one lead's storyline[1](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438) |
| Reception | Helped PTS+ pass one million members; ranked first on the platform for a month; English and Japanese subtitled versions posted to YouTube in July 2024[3](https://www.mjcwstudios.com/news/2024eatups01) |
| Sequel | Season 2, 9 episodes of 15 minutes, premiered November 1, 2025, on PTS+ and LINE TV[4](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5812) |
## Spoilers
### Premise
The series centers on two people who never meet on screen. Thomas (湯瑪士), played by 胡宇威, is an interior designer whose engagement was called off and who fears being alone; Emily (艾蜜莉), played by 李玲葦, is a socially anxious newcomer to the workforce. They occupy the same apartment kitchen in time periods three years apart, and each learns to live alone through cooking and brewing homemade fruit wine.[1](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438) A shared door-lock password opens a kind of time-slip connection, letting the two strangers comfort each other across the years through food and drink.[5](https://www.linetv.tw/drama/18153/eps/1?source=NAVBAR)
The drama treats the dinner table as a third protagonist. Because the leads exist in different times, their only point of intersection is the table in the same house, and each episode ends with the character returning to it to eat a proper meal.[2](https://dramago.ptsplus.tv/articles/17298/) The supporting cast includes 姚以緹 as 范湘, Thomas's partner of more than a decade from university onward, and 廖苡喬.[6](https://www.dcard.tw/f/tvepisode/p/255418785) • [1](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438)
### Episode list
The six first-season episodes, as listed on LINE TV, are:[5](https://www.linetv.tw/drama/18153/eps/1?source=NAVBAR)
1. 單身不代表沒有人愛你！ (Being single does not mean no one loves you)
2. 做不出一人份的二路菜
3. 當你迷失的時候，總要相信點什麼 (When you are lost, you must believe in something)
4. 人生沒有什麼煩惱是一頓飯解決不了的，如果有，那就兩頓！ (No worry in life cannot be solved by a meal; if there is, then two meals)
5. 如果你的勇氣拒絕你，你就超越他！ (If your courage refuses you, surpass it)
6. 用你的方式和往事揮手告別 (Wave goodbye to the past in your own way)
## Production approach
**One emotion per episode.** Producer 張世傑 and screenwriter 黃雨佳 designed the series against the standard Taiwanese drama structure of ten to twenty episodes of sixty to ninety minutes. With so little running time, the plot was kept deliberately simple: each episode conveys a single emotion, such as workplace friction, healing from heartbreak, recovering the ability to trust, or practicing saying no. Backstory is left unstated, and viewers infer the relationship between Thomas and Emily only from small details.[2](https://dramago.ptsplus.tv/articles/17298/)
The series was developed food-first: dishes were chosen before the characters, and the character settings grew out of the food. Cooking steps are slowed down and enlarged on screen to build atmosphere, and the leads' inner monologues had to match in breathing and rhythm even though they speak in different spaces and times.[2](https://dramago.ptsplus.tv/articles/17298/) The fruit-wine motif was present from the start; producer 張世傑 noted that a finished dish can be eaten immediately, but wine requires patience and care, since a mistake in fruit handling, recipe, or steeping time can ruin a whole jar.[2](https://dramago.ptsplus.tv/articles/17298/)
**Mobile-first format.** The full episodes run in the standard 16:9 ratio on PTS+, while social media received separate 9:16 vertical versions that present the male and female leads' storylines independently, a structure aimed at phone viewers.[1](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438) The production company 瑞廷創意影像有限公司 (Majestic Creative Works) made its first drama production with this series, applying its advertising-production experience; the two directors, 鄭志良 and 查迪奇, both come from commercial directing, one with a documentary background and one in short film.[3](https://www.mjcwstudios.com/news/2024eatups01) • [7](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5432)
## Reception and sequel
After release the series drew broad positive response and helped the PTS+ streaming platform pass one million members; its viewership ranking stayed first for a month. English- and Japanese-subtitled versions were uploaded to YouTube in July 2024 for international audiences.[3](https://www.mjcwstudios.com/news/2024eatups01)
A second season, 《[就算一個人也可以好好的吃飯2](https://www.edgepedia.org/a-table-for-one-is-great-too-2)》, returned on November 1, 2025, on PTS+ and LINE TV, with a second part on November 11. It comprises nine episodes of fifteen minutes and shifts toward romance: 胡宇威's Thomas, now a "cooking boyfriend," prepares meals at a guesthouse and, alongside 李玲葦's Emily, moves from solitary healing toward a love story, with supporting storylines including a couple played by 初孟軒 and 徐鈞浩.[4](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5812) • [8](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/3031278?from=entertainment_content_pack)
## Context: the solo-dining genre
Dramas about eating alone are an established type in Japan, with examples including *Kodoku no Gurume* (孤獨的美食家, *Solitary Gourmet*), *新幹線居酒屋*, and *晚酌的流派*, each differing in protagonist and setting. For Taiwan the format lacked precedent, which the production team cited as a challenge for communicating a shared approach with the crew.[2](https://dramago.ptsplus.tv/articles/17298/)
The series also rides a wider Asian shift in dining habits. In Japan, government "shokuiku" (food education) white paper data indicate that more than half of office workers live a "solitary eating" (孤食) lifestyle, mostly men aged 35 to 55 relying on takeout and supplements; South Korea has seen the rise of the slang term 혼밥 (honbap, eating alone), with solo-booth restaurants appearing in Seoul.[9](https://issues.ptsplus.tv/articles/8418/) A 2017 survey by the *China Youth Daily* of 1,991 people aged 18 to 35 found 67.6% felt embarrassed eating alone in a restaurant and 73.0% thought "eating well" had become a problem for young people, especially singles.[10](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_32824310) Against this backdrop, the drama's message is that whether one is single by choice or by circumstance, paying attention to what one likes to eat, without worrying about others' eyes, matters, because as the series puts it, "once you're full, it's fine."
## References
1. [公共電視最新消息：《就算一個人也可以好好的吃飯》4月30公視+全集上架](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5438)
2. [劇夠：幕後｜每集只講一個「情緒」，《就算一個人也可以好好吃飯》享受單身的慢時光](https://dramago.ptsplus.tv/articles/17298/)
3. [MJCW Studios（瑞廷創意影像）：就算一個人也可以好好的吃飯](https://www.mjcwstudios.com/news/2024eatups01)
4. [公共電視最新消息：《就算一個人也可以好好的吃飯2》11/1公視+上架](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5812)
5. [LINE TV：就算一個人也可以好好的吃飯 第一季](https://www.linetv.tw/drama/18153/eps/1?source=NAVBAR)
6. [Dcard：你有好好吃飯嗎？新戲推播《就算一個人也可以好好的吃飯》](https://www.dcard.tw/f/tvepisode/p/255418785)
7. [公共電視最新消息：金鐘編劇黃雨佳新作《就算一個人也可以好好的吃飯》](https://about.pts.org.tw/pr/latestnews/article/5432)
8. [TVBS新聞：《就算一個人也可以好好的吃飯2》首映會報導](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/3031278?from=entertainment_content_pack)
9. [觀點同不同：獨食文化不孤獨？一個人的餐桌背後是自我心靈對話的開始](https://issues.ptsplus.tv/articles/8418/)
10. [澎湃新聞：「一人食餐廳」報導，引中國青年報2017年調查](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_32824310)
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