the god of cookery

Film multihyphenate, actor and filmmaker Stephen Chow’s resumé in film has plenty of titles his fanbase can discern as emblematic of his successful thirty-plus year run in the industry. His 1996 entry, The God Of Cookery, is certainly a beacon for Hong Kong Cinema’s audience, and a certainly fitting entry into this year’s food-themed second-annual Winter Showcase for the New York Asian Film Festival. The film is directed by Li Lik-Chi alongside frontman Chow who leads as “Stephen Chow”, a top-lining chef hailed as a divine go-to arbiter in culinary expertise. He’s admired by the industry, and to that end, he’s as elitist and cocky as one would expect, and far from ‘humble’ and ‘kind’, and these are all the latest seeming first-hand experience of Fat Bull (Vincent Kok), a sniveling low-level employee who Chow tests as a metric of obedience. It’s also one of the last acts of authority […]

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