(Tsui Hark/Hong Kong/1995/107mins/sub-titles) |
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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. “A comic Kung-food movie about duelling chefs that’s fast paced, funny and warm-hearted to boot…” Variety in double bill with |
That Special Ingredient (Four National Film School shorts/UK/1988/30 mins) Crash Course/ Immaculate Conception/ Fishing for Compliments/ Wild Wisdom Co-writers: Cathy Greenhalgh and Anna Ziman. Directors: Alex Pillal, Jim Shields and Madeline Hall “We wanted to build recipes into comedy drama; absurd, kitsch, farce; to create a new TV character, a kind of post-modern Fanny Craddock…” Cathy Greenhalgh, LCP School of Media Don’t miss the Chinese cookery demo linked to this film Chinese beer tasting with the compliments of Shepherd Neame master brewers |