The God of Cookery (1996)
Reviewed by: Chuma on 2000-07-12
Summary: That's one way to save on gas...

The God of Cookery starts of with a cooking competiton between the
best cooks in Hong Kong with the famous 'God of Cookery' presiding
over the competition and issuing his harsh criticism to all the
contestants.

However, the God of Cookery is a sham. He can't actually cook
and is relying on clever marketing and is surrounded by YES men.
Enter onto the scene a talented youngster, who is accepted by
The God as an assistant when he agrees to do something in front
of the lift.

It all seems well for The God, however he is confronted by his
assistant who challenges him and asks if he can actually cook
at all. The God is then arrested after some of his customers
got sick from eating 'British Beef' and he ends up being usurped
by the newcomer.

After the new 'God of Cookery' becomes famous, the old God disapears
and no-one knows where he has gone, he turns up at a food vendor
on Temple Street and is still critising the food, however he gets
beaten up a lot by the gang from the street and is befriended by
Turkey, the female food vendor who takes a liking to him.

In a fight between the rival food vendors in which Turkey is one
of the bosses of, The Former God speaks out of turn and is about
to be punished by the other boss when Turkey saves him and proves
that she has really strong arm muscles by cutting a table in half.

It starts to go completely mental after this point, but I'll leave
it to you to find out what happens. All I'm going to say is that
The Former God of Cookery and the New God face of against each other
and we get to meet 'The 18 Bronze Men of Shaolin'.

This has to be one of the funniest movies I've seen in quite a while,
at one stage I started to feel dizzy I was laughing so hard
(around about the time 'The 18 Bronze Men of Shaolin' were introduced).

The cooking sequences are also very well done and some of the funniest
moments of the film are actually some of the people's reactions to the
food on tasting it.

I would recommend this film to people who like comedies, but make
sure you have eaten beforehand or you will be very hungry by the
time the film finishes!

Rating : 8/10