The Chinese Feast

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"This is a great movie that does for the cooking-genre (!?) what Wong Jing's God of Gamblers did for the gambling genre."

- Yi-Long


The Chinese Feast (1995)

Director: Tsui Hark

Cast: Leslie Cheung, Anita Yuen, Kenny Bee, Hung Yan Yan, Lo Ka Ying

Running Time: 100 min.

Plot: A young man wants to give up this triad lifestyle, and decides to become a cook, but ends up as a kitchen-help in a restaurant where everyone is mean to him. The restaurant has to compete with another restaurant in a grande cooking-contest, so the young man and the restaurant-owner's daughter decide to hunt down one of the most talented cooks in the world, who has given up his cooking and has become a sad old drunk in mainland China. They have to find a way to make him return to Hong Kong and get him to cook again...

Reviews

YI-LONG'S REVIEW: Damn, that Bear-Paw-in-Honey looks GOOD!!!! This movie is blessed with great casting, a nice, fun story and poëtic direction by Tsui Hark. I never knew that a movie about cooking and food could be this entertaining, but trust me, it is. Tsui Hark shows the cooking in such a beautifull way, that it looks like the actors have never done anything else in their life besides cooking: It just looks so natural and gorgeous. The food also looks spectacular. Even disgusting-sounding food looks like heaven in this movie. There is also a great variety in the food, ranging from fish to fruit to meat and other delicious stuff. The acting is very good by all cast, but the main highlight in acting must be Anita Yuen, who just looks like the perfect woman in this film. She is just so funny and wild in this movie, and she looks extremely hot with the red hair. The karaoke-scene in which she decides to sing a bit, is hilarious. Leslie Cheung also shows his comedic talents, as the cool, wannabe-cook kid. Leslie is also responsible for the nice song you hear when Leslie and Anita are in mainland-China to search for the lost supercook. All in all, This is a great movie that does for the cooking-genre (!?) what Wong Jing's God of Gamblers did for the gambling genre.

YI-LONG'S RATING: 8.5/10 (after his movie, my VCR decided to eat the tape...J/K ;)