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Sun,
a Hong Kong debt collector, dreams of being a master
chef and joins the legendary Master Au’s
restaurant to learn how. When Au suffers a heart
attack after being challenged to a contest to cook the
Qing and Han Imperial Feast, a breathtaking banquet of
over 100 dishes, Sun has to save the day by tracking
down Cantonese master chef Liu.
No
figure within the Hong Kong New Wave has been more
influential than Tsui Hark (Peking Opera Blues). The
premise of this "kung food" film is
wonderfully clever: it applies the form of a classic
martial arts film to a story about cooking. An inept
young cook (Leslie Cheung) must find a master chef to
represent his boss’s restaurant in a high-stakes
competition. Despite its loosely structured, anything
goes plot, the film’s knockout humor and high
spirits manage to keep us enthralled through detailed
demonstrations of complex (and often revolting)
recipes.
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