This shock plays on Au Siu Fung's weak heart, and he becomes wheelchair bound and too weak to take part in the competition. No sooner has the bet been made than all his staff hand in their resignation, as they were given a healthy offer from the Super Group should he win. The wager is made, with the restaurant put up as Au Siu Fung's (the owner) bet.
Not any ordinary cooking competition, but the Qing and Han banquet - a feast so difficult to prepare due to all the rare ingredients involved and cooking techniques required, that only a few chefs are actually able to cook it. Meanwhile, a very arrogant chef from the Super Group comes and challenges the Qing Han's owner to a cooking competition. However, with the arrival of Sun, she soon finds a new object for her affection. She is a quirky girl with a highly colourful personality! She works in the restaurant against her wishes, and tries to make her dad angry with her so that he will fire her. Here he meets the owner's daughter Au Ka Wai (Anita Yuen), who also goes by the name V.V.
With the aid of Master Lung (Chiu Man Cheuk), Sun gets a job as the lowest of the low in the kitchen of the Qing Han restaurant. Despite his good desires, he is a poor chef. Leslie Cheung plays Chiu Kong Sun, a young triad loan shark boss, who wants to quit his ways as a loan shark and become a chef so that he can go to Canada to be reunited with his girlfriend. The story is quite simple and very linear. Both are different in style, so no comparison will be made, but The Chinese Feast is another film which should serve Leslie Cheung's memory well. A while ago there was the cooking phase, which for me spawned two classics (that I've seen): The Chinese Feast and God of Cookery starring Stephen Chow.
Hong Kong cinema, like Hollywood, goes through phases of 'in' films. They must help rehabilitate him in time for him to compete in the cooking competition or else they will lose their restaurant. However, the only person that he and co-worker Anita Yuen, who is the restaurant owner's daughter, can find that is able to cook such a feast is a retired chef, who has lost all his taste senses. Leslie Cheung is a young triad wannabe, who also wants to be a chef! He ends up working in a restaurant that is challenged, by an extremely cocky chef, to preparing the Qing Han Banquet, the ultimate feast in cooking, using extremely rare ingredients.
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