Featured food: Vegetable infused patty burger
Mark is a deaf and mute guy who is also illiterate. He works as a sailor and he goes where ever the ship sails. While he is on land, he will visit the diner for a quick bite. Whenever he is there, he will never fail to attract females because of his good looks. Unfortunately, once they find out his disability most will drop him like a hot potato although some still become friends with him.
One night after dinner, Mark was chilling at the docks enjoying the night breeze when he noticed two suspicious men loading boxes onto a speedboat near the lighthouse. He went nearer to investigate and the two men jumped into the speedboat and sped off. He walked around the lighthouse and found a baby girl left in a small crate.
Shocked, Mark took the baby and rushed into the diner. The diner boss was also shocked and it seemed from there that Mark decided to raise the baby as his own. Mark asks the diner boss and the locals there to help him name the baby... and she was named Lele.
Fast forward now Lele is already five years old. She lives with Mark in a shipping container store by the docks. Mark has also stopped being a sailor and now works as a ship repairman so he can be on land to take care of Lele. Lele is the darling of the harbour, everyone there loves her as their own daughter and she is very happy living her life.
As Mark is busy fixing the ships, Lele is very independent... She helps Mark around the house and even buys the groceries! Really cute, I quite like this little girl although her shrill high voice is a little sharp on my ears! ;D
One day while Lele was helping Mark clean the house, she spots a teddy bear placed high on a cupboard. In her attempts to reach the teddy bear she falls down and injures herself. She calls out to Mark for help but as he is deaf, he couldn't hear her. By the time he realised it, Lele had to be rushed to the hospital.
Now this is where all the nightmare begins for Mark. As it is a child injury, the hospital staff were looking into the matter if it may be child abuse. Matters became worse when they discovered Lele's blood type is AB whereas Mark's blood type is O. The investigation went on and it turns out that Lele was a missing kidnapped child reported many years ago.
Lele was taken into the social welfare care and Mark was not allowed to take her home. Police ran DNA matching tests on their database and found Lele's real mother. Lele's mother is a rich powerful businesswoman residing overseas. She rushed back when she heard that her long lost daughter had been found.
Meanwhile, in his desperation to keep Lele... Mark decides to run off with her. The diner boss spots Mark and Lele speeding off in a speedboat at the harbour and yells to them to come back. Alas, Mark was caught by the harbour police patrol and thrown in jail.
Lawsuits began to ensue. Mark was charged for kidnapping Lele when she was a baby and he had no rights to fight for custody of Lele because of his disability of being deaf, mute and illiterate. (A lot of onions here!) Mark tries his best to read and speak in the courtroom but the decision was final. He lost the custody of Lele and no visitation rights as well. But one good thing was that the kidnapping charges were dropped.
Time to say goodbye.... Omo! I was crying this whole part... T_T The heartbreaking moment for Mark to let go of Lele...
Don't worry, there is a happy ending! ;D Lele's mother saw that Mark was really not the bad guy who kidnapped her daughter... and that Lele has grown up with nice people despite their environment... A few days after the goodbye, Mark received a plane ticket from Lele's mother. It seems that Mark is able to visit Lele after all! The story ends with Mark leaving to board the plane with the teddy bear for Lele!
Okay, for the featured food... Lele doesn't like vegetables (as with her mom as well!) So Mark was worried that she wasn't getting a balanced diet. He asks the diner boss to come up with a recipe and he did... The diner boss managed to infused vegetables into a burger patty. Every Friday night, Mark and Lele will dine there to eat this special burger. Mmm! It looks yummy!
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