ABC DJ

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StarringEugene Lee
Richard Low
Margaret Lim
Ezann Lee
Deng Mao Hui
Marcus Chin
Subin Subaiah
Vignesh V
Country of originSingapore
No. of episodes13
Executive producersDaisy Irani
Hossan Leong
ABC DJ
StarringEugene Lee
Richard Low
Margaret Lim
Ezann Lee
Deng Mao Hui
Marcus Chin
Subin Subaiah
Vignesh V
Country of originSingapore
No. of episodes13
Production
Executive producersDaisy Irani
Hossan Leong
Camera setupSingle camera
Running time30 minutes (with commercials)
Original release
NetworkMediaCorp Channel 5
Release23 May (2006-05-23) 
15 August 2006 (2006-08-15)

ABC DJ (Abbreviation for American Born Chinese Dong Jin) was a Singaporean sitcom which often makes references to sensitive issues such as culture shock and racial discrimination. It also features guest appearances from the cast members in 2 Singaporean local English sitcoms Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd and Police & Thief in episode 7. Moreover, this sitcom was also a combination of storylines from popular Singaporean local sitcoms and drama such as Under One Roof, Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, Police & Thief, Living with Lydia and Growing Up respectively. Furthermore, this sitcom also bears some similarities with another popular Singaporean sitcom known as Police & Thief, in which both families in that sitcom and this sitcom lived in a Toa Payoh HDB Flat. At the same time, Richard Low and Margaret Lim would also collaborate again in the future as husband and wife in the Singapore's long-running drama known as Tanglin.

DJ (Dong-Jin) and Master Zhang

This series is about an American-born Chinese "brat" from Beverly Hills, California named Zhang Dong Jin, also known as Dong Jin or DJ (Eugene Lee), who is a rich, spoilt and almost-worthless Americanized Chinese that was sent or banished to Singapore by his father, Master Zhang, to live with a conservative Chinese family being the Goh family , so that DJ will learn about Chinese culture.

DJ was tricked by his father into going to Singapore. He thought he was in Singapore on a vacation when he received a phone call from his father, explaining to DJ that he had come to Singapore not for a vacation but to live with the Goh family to learn the traditional Chinese culture from them. However, DJ did not adapt well to the Chinese traditions, such as filial piety. During the stay with the Goh family, DJ was often being threatened or bullied by Goh, and his family. DJ was often regarded as a Chinese ang moh, a Singlish term for a Chinese person who lives in the West.

The Goh family and others

The Chinese family being the Goh family is headed by Goh Boon Keng (Richard Low), who is a chinese doctor and physician and disciple to Master Zhang and a greatest threat to DJ, lives together with his wife, Goh Hwee (Margaret Lim), his two children, Fann Goh (Ezann Lee), a bookworm and Goh Jeng Lo (Deng Mao Hui), who is regarded as a sissy and his old, illiterate and dimwitted father, Goh Ah Kong (Marcus Chin). Boon Keng works in a Traditional Chinese Medicine Shop. DJ and the Goh family lived in a Toa Payoh HDB Flat together under one roof. Ah Kong has an old Indian friend called Gana (Subin Subaiah), a former butcher in a nearby market and hawker centre, who is also as equally illiterate as him. Occasionally, they get into fights and arguments unexpectedly together. Deepak (Vignesh V) is Fann's Indian closest school friend. To DJ, Fann and Deepak are considered as "nerds", an English slang for a stereotypical person who is boring and is not attractive in terms of their appearance and outlook.

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