God of Cookery
1996, PG, 90 min.
D: Lik Chi Li; with Stephen Chow.

Stephen Chow wrote and stars in this comedy about an Iron Chef-type cook who is stripped of his title by a jealous apprentice, who reveals the God of Cookery to be a con man. Dejected, he spends time in a Shaolin monastery, learns kung-fu cooking styles, hooks up with a street food vendor, and invents a recipe for exploding, pissing shrimp balls, a popular success which helps him regain the title of the God of Cookery.

This article appears in July 21 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.