Wok Of Life (Chinese: 福满人间) is a long-running Chinese drama which aired in Singapore in 1999. The show starred Chew Chor Meng, Ann Kok, and Evelyn Tan as the main characters.

Ri-an, an apprentice cook, turns up at Hua Da Hotel to answer an advertisement for the job of a cook. He keeps the matter from his teacher, Nanhua. To Ri-an's disappointment, the panel of interviewers do not like the way he cooks the dish. Nanhua, the resident chef of Fu Man Lou, sets very high standards for his staff. They respect and fear him at the same time.

Ri-an meets an American-trained chef, Yaoqing, and is impressed with his culinary skills. Ri-an offers to take him on an eating spree around the country. Yaoqing is hounded by the press at the seafood restaurant and decides to go back to Ri-an's place. Nanhua is upset as Ri-an has misplaced Yue-e's photo. When Ri-an learns that Yue-er is coming back to Singapore, he arranges for Nanhua to pick her up.

Yaoqing's pepper crab proves to be more popular with the restaurant patrons than Nanhua's stewed duck. Nanhua is peeved. The mentally slow Wu Jin gets cheated by dishonest customers when he sells lottery tickets. His mother, Ka-sou, who has worked at Fu Man Lou for many decades, blames it on Yue-er's incompetence when she helped to deliver Wu Jin decades ago. Yaoqing demands that Nanhua cook the dish, 万佛朝宗. Ridden with thoughts of the past, Nanhua passes out and is sent to the hospital. As he enters the ambulance, he tries to tell Ri-an something.

Ri-an mistakenly thinks that Nanhua wants him to take his place in the contest. He loses to Yaoqing and, feeling utterly ashamed of himself, he contemplates leaving home. Nanhua tells Yue-e and Daixiang that he deserves retribution for what he did to Yaoqing's family. In the meantime, Ri-an buys Toto, which has a $3 million lottery prize, in the hope of winning back Fu Man Lou with a lawsuit. Yaoqing arrives to claim Fu Man Lou and in a scuffle over an urn in Fu Man Lou, Ri-an and Zhenzhen are transported back to the ‘60s after the urn topples and falls on them.

Ri-an thinks he has died and gone to another dimension. Soon after, Ri-an realizes he is back in the ’60s and is recognised as Yongfu. He is eager to return to the ‘90s as he wants to claim the prize money he won in Toto. He meets his grand-teacher, Dadi, who runs a restaurant named Fu Man Lou. Dadi had four students, his son Xiaodong, Nanhua, Yongfu and Ah Xi. Dadi is bewildered when Ri-an does not recognise him and his peers. Ri-an is confused when Dadi and his family addresses him as You Yongfu. He discovers that a man named You Yongfu works at Fu Man Lou, and has an uncanny resemblance to himself. Yongfu had escaped to Malacca after he thought he killed someone.

Ri-an finds himself falling in love with a woman called Saiman. Yongfu and Saiman were once lovers, but had fallen out with each other after it was revealed that Yongfu, who was a playboy, had 107 other girlfriends. Daixiang arrives to stay with her father, Mr. Four-eyes after having flunked out of school without anyone knowing. Ri-an is shocked to see that she is a younger version of his own mother. At the same time, the 4th pupil of Dadi, Ah Xi comes back from Malacca, having briefly met Daixiang on the train. He was betrothed to Xiao Ping, who is Dadi's daughter before Dadi got married in Singapore. Xiao Ping arrives in Singapore to seek her father, and strains Dadi's familial relations. She initially rejects Ah Xi due to his slow speech and apparent lack of knowledge but they become more intimate over the years.

Zhenzhen, who arrived with Ri-an, suffers from amnesia due to blows to her head during the scuffle in the '90s. She is found by Nanhua's sister, Haolian. Zhenzhen becomes known as Ang Mo Kio as she could only remember that she lived in the housing estate, Ang Mo Kio. She also falls in love with Nanhua, but Nanhua only treats her as a younger sister. She ends up working for Haolian, who is a midwife. However, as Zhenzhen is afraid of blood, Saiman becomes Haolian's assistant due to the lucrative business. Eventually, due to Saiman's inexperience, she caused Ka-sou's son, Wu Jing to be mentally handicapped. This adds to Saiman's family problems as they are poor due to her father's gambling habits. Her father eventually causes the death of Ka-sou's husband and flees.