Chinese Feast

(Tsui Hark/Hong Kong/1995/107mins/sub-titles)

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