"The Chinese Feast features the elaborate preparation of exotic culinary delights presented with the heightened combat and excessive stylization one expects from kung-fu films. Machine-gun editing combined with unforgettable foodstuffs (finely sculptured tofu, as well as bear paw, elephant trunk, and monkey brain) ensure that this ultra-wacky action-comedy will work simultaneously on your nervous and digestive systems?.If you've never seen one of Tsui Hark's films, you are missing one of the most specacular pleasures that Asian filmmaking has to offer, (a) highly evolved style of cinema that's both accessible and avant-garde?.The Chinese Feast takes a stock kung-fu story (naive but willing student who wishes to study with infamous master who's renounced his craft and is reluctant to teach again) and gives it a major twist: the master is a prize-winning chef and the student is a baby-faced gangster in love with a punk chanteuse?.The result is both silly and astounding: Hark does for Chinese cooking what usby Berkeley did for showgirls."-Barry Walters, San Francisco Examiner