The original 2001 Meteor Garden was such a phenomenon in Malaysia I remember girls in my school even bought those tacky replicas of the meteor necklace famously adorned on leading lady Shan Cai ...

As a ’90s kid, I was in first grade when “Meteor Garden” was dubbed in Tagalog ... Every day, I was in Taipei, living through Shan Cai, feeling as if I were part of the series.

Shan Cai, whose parents are far from wealthy, attends Ying De University, the private school established exclusively for rich students. Besides being looked down by rich classmates, she has ...