This is a hilarious comedy from Stephen Chiau (also known as Stephen Chow). As you may have figured out from the title, the story revolves around Hong Kong's "God Of Cookery" (played by Stephen Chiau) who has become power hungry and loses touch with what cooking should be about. This leads to him to "lose everything to his evil, ambitious understudy." He ends up recruiting an "unsightly street vendor who is secretly in love with him." Although I imagine this film is funnier for the native viewer, most of the jokes still worked for me.
My favorite thing about this film is that half way through it managed to escape the fairly formulaic nature of what was going on and ended up surprising me and really drawing me into the story, silly as it was. The final cook-off ups the ante and is genuinely hysterical, especially to those of us who are familiar with the conventions of fantasy based kung-fu films. The cooking of food with
"internal power" is the highlight.
A couple years ago there was talk of this film being re-made with Jim Carry in the lead role and it would have been directed by Stephen Chiau. I dunno what's happening with that, but it could be a fun film if it did or will happen.