Leslie Cheung is the scion of a triad family, and Anita Yuen (who just about steals the show) a teenybopper with multicolored hair who bounces around like a super-ball; together, they try to rehabilitate a sodden chef so he can win a cooking competition and thus save a prominent HK restaurant from a hostile takeover. It's very funny (and a little dumb), but nowhere else will you see delicacies like Bear Palm with Sturgeon Sauce, and Monkey Brain Soup with Shark Tooth Powder. Yum, pass the veggie pot-stickers.

(3/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]