With: Leslie Cheung, Anita Yuen, Kenny Bee, Ni Shu-chun, Lo Ka-ying, Zhao Wenzhuo, Hung Yan-yan. Reviewed on Eastern Heroes vidcassette, London, July 27, 1996. Screenplay, Tsui, Ng Man-fai, Tseng Tsung-tai.Ĭamera (color, widescreen), Peter Pau editor, Mak Tsi-sin music, Lowell Lo production design, William Chang food design, Tsui, Chang, Man Nim-tsung stunt director, Yuen Pan assistant directors, Tsui On, Cindy Chan second unit camera, Poon Hang-seng. Derek ElleyĪ Mandarin Films, Film Workshop production. Production values, from the gorgeous main title onwards, are top of the line and, as in that great other Chinese food movie, Eat Drink Man Woman, the vittles look good enough to, well, eat. Cheung and Yuen show fine screen chemistry here, with the former clearly having a ball goofing around, and the latter giving a passable impression of Chung King Express discovery Faye Wong in red hair and loopy clothes. The movie also pushes a philosophy that runs through many of Tsuis pictures: that success in any endeavor can only be achieved by group effort.
In between, however, Tsui has some pre-97 sport showing disorganized but fast-thinking Hong Kongers teaching a few things to humorless, arrogant Mainlanders. Pic is essentially a modern-day version of the rival-schools costume dramas, with cooking skills replacing martial arts expertise.
Hawling him back to Hong Kong, Sun and Ka-wai race to rehone his five key senses so he can rep Aus eatery in the contest, based on three dishes (bear paw, elephant trunk, monkey brains) in the famed, multicourse Qing & Han Imperial Feast.
Liu, who (per the movies prologue) lost out in a contest five years ago against the same Mainlander, is now an alcoholic derelict.
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