Kung Fu Cooking Movies | Video Essay
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Start your free trial at squarespace.com... and use code ACCENTEDCINEMA to get 10% off your first purchase.
Accented Cinema - Episode 119
Maybe I should just make a whole video about God of Cookery.
------------------------------------------
Support us on Patreon:
/ accentedcinema
Follow us on Social Media!
/ accentedcinema
/ accentedcinema
Start your free trial at squarespace.com/accentedcinema and use code ACCENTEDCINEMA to get 10% off your first purchase.
Thanks to Xiran Jay Zhao and Ranton for appearing in this video!
Xiran Jay Zhao: ruclips.net/video/1HFFxihgfzI/видео.html
Ranton: ruclips.net/video/iu4H16VTmK4/видео.html
Ranton, the guy from shaolin that can't cook.
@@sbl3742 His German side gets in the way of using a wok well.
Ranton, the crazy German that went half across the world to train at Shaolin.
do you know the one with a tournament and a team of cooks, and they have to serve a monkey's brain at the end? but instead they made a veggie dish, that taste like brain? its not kung fu movie but its a good one, i cant remember the tittle though
I approve 😂
4:24
Your cameo in the video was excellent, 7/10!
bro are you streaming until dawn tonight ?
❤😂
If cooking is kung-fu, you need to get better at cooking, bro. 😅
Chuka Ichiban is so popular that more than 25 years later people still try to recreate the absurd dishes like the golden laughing bun on youtube and bilibili and still get hundreds of thousands of views
It took me a while to understand what the "laughing" come from... turns out it was the "gas" squeaking sounds from the fried beef.
I was ecstatic when the series was picked up again recently, not for its overarching story but the philosophy and origins behind regional dishes.
@@hanchiman iirc it was explained in the original anime episode
Chuuka Ichiban was a fantastic watch! Saw it before Iron Chef, so (in my young mind at least) the latter felt like a letdown for imaginative dishes
@@beanbean8375 I... didn't understand the description. So had to watch an IRL video of a chef who did it. Then heard the fizzle squeaking sounds to recognize it, the anime only use actual laugh so was hard to understand
As a big foodie, I stumbled upon Cook Up A Storm some day and the moment the father eats the noodles at the finale of the cooking contest and laughs crying was the most unexpected tearjerker ever.
I'm glad that was Yang able to talk about this movie in this video and look beyond the "typical 2010's Chinese blockbuster film flaws" (as he described) it had.
@@paleoph6168Flaws are easy to see, but it's the deeper messages that's more meaningful and harder to find.
"if they order a large amount of beef, it means trouble" I'm assuming it's because they have "beef" with everyone
I was thinking this!
Guga is in trouble then!
我不吃牛肉
During the period of Song Dynasty, butchers were mostly forbidden from slaughter cows due to their critical role in an agricultural society. Hence serving and eating beef is a sign of rebellion. Their actions also indicates that the restaurants and the customers were outlaws.
😂😂😂😂
I live alone most of the time, and in that time, I honed my cooking skills so I can feed myself with home cooked food. And, being a cinephile and a cooking enjoyer, movies like 'Eat, Drink, Man, Woman', 'Ratatouille', 'Chef', and definitely 'God of Cookery' and 'Cook Up a Storm' are sources of enjoyment and inspiration when I cook. If the movie has food, it's probably gonna be good (I wanna shoutout to Accented Cinema's old video, also about food in movies).
That Ranton reference have my jaw on the floor. Least expected Crossover in my RUclips verse
I love Ranton too!
It warms my heart that there are so many people here commenting that they also watched Chuka Ichiban back in the day.
The anime really did introduce Chinese cuisine to all of us when we were younger.
The scene at 3:09-3:11 was filmed in a restaurant below my childhood home. I've never seen so such crowd there since then.
I can personally attest to the skill and technique part, in real life. I like eating salmon. I also consider salmon to be a relatively pricey dish in restaurants. Salmon dishes are usually pretty palatable to me even when it's not cooked as good as it could be.
Then, one day, I bought some cheap salmon steaks from the asian supermarket to just make some home cooked salmon for myself. I like salmon enough that I can eat it plain. The recipe seemed easy enough.
When I pulled my salmon out of the oven, plated it, and ate it...I was a little upset.
It was positively the most delicious salmon I ever had in my life. It blew away every restaurant salmon I've ever had in my life. What the heck was I playing 20-30 bucks for when I could make something superior for 5 bucks. It wasn't even hard. I literally deboned it, sprinkled on some salt, and threw it in the oven for like 12-15 minutes.
I mean, I get it. Things are difficult in a restaurant setting. I need to pay for the labor of the cooks and the servers. Fish in general can be really sensitive to heat and timing. The difference between perfect and moist or overcooked and dry is like a minute or two. When there's a dinner rush, having something left in the over for slightly too long isn't unusual.
But still...if I pay 30 bucks for salmon, I want it to be good. I hesitate to order salmon at restaurants nowadays. It's always a crapshoot and I'm often left disappointed. Like, usually it's edible but not stellar. Better for me to just order something else.
I don't want to order salmon in a restaurant when I have salmon at home.
One problem is ordering seafood from a place that isn't specifically a seafood restaurant. Overcooking is easy and a plate sitting under a heat lamp is cooking the fish.
A guy doing a heavy sear of a steak needs to dial it back with fish. Timing is so critical.
That said, salmon with that fatty belly is fairly easy to cook.
Now I'm curious how bad is the salmon you ate in the restaurant or whether you are just that good at cooking
@@KF-zb6gi Salmon is a dish that can go from blow your mind amazing to just alright extremely easily, most restaurants don't have the right conditions for it to truly shine or just don't understand the flavour profile and pairings of it as it's fairly different to other fish - they also tend to wildly overdo it and mask all of the salmon flavours.
So it's suuuuuper easy to make a version of it at home that will blow your socks off, in foil is a particularly easy and foolproof method that will make a dish people genuinely won't believe is home cooked.
Where are you getting $5 salmon
Grew up watching chuuka ichiban in korean, and rewatched it in chinese two decades later. Still an amazing show ❤
As someone who is both Chinese and French (-Canadian), let me correct something.
French chefs can be extremely pompous.
French food is not!
Except for the king fu fighting, everything that was said about Chinese cooking applies equally to French cuisine.
Ratatouille is perfect, because it showcases that great cooking is feeding people the best of you, the chef. Remy makes Ego, the ultimate food snob, ratatouille, the cheapest, simplest, peasant dish, that doesn't even have meat in it, because what peasant can afford meat? and it reminds Ego that food feeds the body and soul. Ego's fondest memory is his mother feeding him a bowl of ratatouille, after he wrecks his bike and hurts himself lightly (but skinned knees hurt just the same) to warm and comfort him. Anybody see the resemblance to simple pork dish to help a man recover from a painful beating?
So no, French cooking is not snobbish, but is trying to impart technique to the student. You slice one way for this ingredient because it affects the way the item cooks and tastes.
Finally, my Papa told me the ancient story about the Emperor and a bowl of bamboo shoots...but the lesson there was why a cheap peasant dish costs the Emperor as much as some exotic meat...
8:38 A scene of Domestic Violence
13:57 That old man is a real food commentator
Wow, everybody WAS kung fu fighting...
I love that you referenced Chuuka Ichiban! It's one of my favorite anime and truly deepened my love for food and cooking.
I love your videos. Somehow, they always make me cry with nostalgia, my love for the cinema, and my Chinese heritage.
as a person that expertise profession in kitchen, some of these movies are my certified childhood classics. i'm so happy you made a brief presentation for these oriental kitchen movies
The dig at Ranton LMAO
the way you do your videos. It's like full of meaning and often leads me ending with a slight tear.
Laughed out loud when I saw Ranton's Shaolin cooking technique of screaming in pain
Hi. Thank you for this video.
Food occupies a significant part in Italian cinema, where it often symbolizes tradition, the bonds between family members or (as in films from the 50s and 60s) the image of the poverty of the lower classes.
Shout out to Warriors of Virtue for the Kung Fu kitchen scene
Love your channel. The editing, the shout-outs to staples of non-western dominant cinema, the honesty, the words, and the meanings. I've been a long time subscriber, and I just wanted to let you know how much your work is appreciated on so many levels.
We have a saying in Vietnam that goes:
“A man’s ultimate goal is to marry a Japanese woman, have Chinese food for dinner and live in an American-style home.”
But Viet food is better 🫠
That Ranton clip caught me off guard lol, great addition
I'm reminded of when you said "You don't fk with an Asian person's food" (paraphrased) and how my immediate response was: "Yeah, I'd get mad if someone fked with Canadian poutine," and then "...wait, _I_ fk with the poutine when I make it for myself."
Aren't there actually several different known poutines beyond the standard?
@@recoil53 Technically yes, but it's one of those dishes that changes based on region. It's really more like a salad, the only truly important parts are the chips, cheese and gravy, but I know a lot of people who will insist that poutine made with shredded cheese instead of curds isn't poutine. If it bugs them, I meet them in the middle and call 'em "cheese fries," 'cause it's technically correct and can't really be disputed.
Stephen Chow’s “God Of Cookery” is one of my favorite movies ever!
As a child of the 90's, Iron Monkey's Donnie Yen cooking scene was the first time mixing martial arts with food really fascinated me. And I still love scenes like that. Telling a lot about a character and who they are by their martial arts style of fighting and their cooking styles.
Warriors of Virtue has a kung fu cooking scene too. Never made sense to this white boy till now
@musstakrakish i always believed Dennis Dun's Wang Chi from "Big Trouble in Little China," lost his restaurant in a divorce and changed his name to escape the alimony payments where he fashioned telling a little kid stories of Chinese black magic.
No mention of 金玉滿堂(The Chinese Feast)1995? I thought that one also showcases a bit of kung fu within. 🤔
In the essence of Chinese cooking, there are many concepts like Yin-Yang, flow of Chi, Inner Fire and Cold,...which were used in wuxia movies too.
cooking, calligraphy, music, herbalism, traditional medicine, even tea ceremony, all considered "Kung Fu" on their own. So its only natural for movie makers, wuxia novelists etc.. to combine these things with martial arts.
The conceit of a Michelin Star restaurant next door cannibalizes customers from a hole-in-the-wall noodle place with an average price point 10-100x lower is just utterly unbelievable.
Another amazing analysis. I'm learning so much of the Chinese culture and story telling from you. Keep up the great work fool.
Another thing about how for Chinese food, there's a story behind every dish, if you go to a simple streetside restaurant in China, especially one that has a signature dish (e.g. Lanzhou beef noodles) where they mostly make variations of it, they'll often have posters on the wall talking about the story behind the food. Sometimes also its nutritional content (e.g. it's good for your spleen, or it drives out cold)
I have never seen that in the short amount of time I've spent in the States so far, except for in Rubio's Costal Grill where they have small posters talking about their ingredients and one of them talked about how their founder went to Baja and was so enamoured with the tacos there that he decided to start a taco stand when he returned
I loved watching Cooking Master Boy (Chuuka Ichiban) as a kid!
Ive had beggars chicken. It is so good.
My late uncle drove us via motorcycles up to an open field lit by string lights hooked up to generators. We were given gloves. I remember it was so dark beyond the edges of the restaurant that it felt like you were just in a small bubble of food and light.
I love your analyses and reviews. The Ranton shoutout feels so wholesome I wanna eat my phone! 😁🤤
god of cookery is a banger. like getting beat by those brass monks
That Ranton clip caught me off guard 😭
Lol the call outs to other channels is great
Has anyone ever seen "The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman"? It's my personal favorite martial arts/cooking movie. I have all the cooking scenes burnt into my mind.
Thank you for making these videos and sharing them with us.
in Wuxia there also element of "cooking pills" sometimes with ingridients like 1000 year old ginseng, myriad thigh pig meat or whatever bombastic name it have.
cultivation with cooking is apparently an established thing in the genre
a sudden Ranton caught me by surprise :D
PLEASE MAKE AN ENTIRE VIDEO ABOUT GOD OF COOKERY!!!!!!!!! PLEEAASSEEEEEEE
Thank you for that video! I really enjoyed the breakdown of how dishes are stories in their own right. It has inspired me to put more emphasis on trying to enjoy the food that I make. I eat to survive and not the other way around, and I always envy the people that truly enjoy the act of eating, as after working in the food/service industry for 6 years, I have started to hate the same foods I have liked before.
Seeing a ranton clip in an accented cinema video. Whoa
Lovely video! And so familiar -- at least three quarters of the analogies and descriptions we use while teaching in our kung fu school are food related. They are relatable, they are fun (and thus memorable), and 'breaking bread together' is such an ingrained part of the human spirit that it builds connection and trust as we teach. (And/or we're all just hungry from all the exercise ;) God of Cookery is one of my fav movies of all time too, and yet I'd never linked it so close to these concepts before, so thank you for making this and bringing that to mind! :)
Great video mam, combining the best of both worlds: fighting and food 💪
For me the pinnacle of Asian cooking movie is 2013's Tsóng-phòo-sai (總舖師, aka Zone Pro Site) from Taiwan.
Cooking Master Boy inspired me to learn other dishes to cook XD
My version of story that i knew of "Buddha Jump Over The Wall" dish was
"There was a man who pass by a temple where he saw numerous people offered delicious food to the Buddha statue as offering. He want to enjoy those food then comes a brilliant idea where he is disguise himself as a Buddha statue and pretend it was one. As usual people come and offered delicious to the Buddha just this time it was a man who has replaced the position of the real Buddha statue as himself. Unfortunately, a monk discover the real Buddha statue has been moved and the he called out the disguise man. In midst of rush, the man packed every food offering together and then run away and when he reach a wall he jump over it. The worshipped was in awe and say "Buddha jump over the wall", thus come to name of dishes and along with ingredient in it."
Thanks and stay blessed.
I love videos like this!
God I love your channel.
You guys need to watch Cook Up the Storm,, It's short, light but beautifully made
Just noticed the error saying that Lau Kar-leung directed THE GOD OF COOKERY.
Other than that, great video!
Man, I love my culture
Thank you for this video
Chop for the chop god!
Cooking is my love language
In Germany we have old recipes. From the grandmother and her grandmother etc etc. These old recipes mostly done on special Times like birthday or Partys or Christmas. But we also like new food recipes from other countrys. I try Japanese, Chinese, USA or Mexican recipes. Someday they maybe become Our recipes as well. Comfort family food is nice no doubt about it. But let me surprise you. Smell an Ancho Chili.
overcooked film ... hahahaha nice
14:19
i know this is minor details, but i think we misunderstand what kung fu means, kung fu is not "martial art" just "art" so cooking kung fu just means "art of cooking" while martial art is callled "wu shu kung fu", and writing wise, it's written as Gong fu
I know I'm ahead of myself, but Of Cooks and Kung Fu from 1979 stands out as one of the best independent Kung Fu movies ever made. I advise anyone to see it.
Please react to Mayabazar (1957) Telugu movie based on a Telugu folktale which is a different interpretation of Characters from Epic Mahabharata - hailed to be "The Greatest Indian film" ever. It was very advanced with technology & storytelling. It is also the inspiration to SS Rajamouli who made Baahubali series, Eega & RRR, & several other Telugu filmmakers to aspire to build Larger than life stories. 🙏
Please make a video on "An Elephant sitting still "
Cook fu is something so stupid but also so mouthwatering 🤤
A Recipe for the Heart, TVB series.
fantastic work. I loved this video. Thank you.
One of my fave movie series.. Emperor Qianlong.
freaking loce this Chanel
The God of Cookery is really good!!!! must watch.
Stephen Chow was always ahead of time
Chuuka ichiban and God of cookery.. approved 😁😁
Very cool!
Great video. If you could only link to sites where I can watch these movies and you could get credit for the referral. I’m search for the movies you refer to.
ranton in this video lets goooooo
Outdoorcheflife, and Foodwars are the other main sources of food pron
Hey bro, you might also want to check out this Bollywood movie called Chandni Chowk to China (2009). Its a movie where a common cook from the streets of Chandni Chowk in Delhi is identified as a reincarnation of a famous Chinese warrior, learns Kung Fu and takes on a gang of Chinese smugglers. It can be good Part Two of this video!!!
Nah, too racist and low quality movie to feature on this channel.
What's with Sammo Hung's dubbing lmao😅
you should look into Jiang Wen's movies. his works are very interesting I'd like to hear your thoughts.
OK. NOW I'm hungry 😋
Chicken And Duck Talk 雞同鴨講 , someone remember this one?
It's a mad lib of all my favorite words 😂
I think even though it’s true putting heart into your dish is important, the recipe is still the most important to me lol
9:20 Why is Sammo Hung's voice not Sammo Hung's voice?
5 star video. Dear YT algorithm. Please recommend it.
Haha Ranton sighting
Was Sammo Hung dubbed over in that movie? I havent found anything online to indicate he was, but that dialogue sounded a bit strange and not like him to me
12:28
wait a minute, it's that Phillipe Etchebest ?!
Ranton 😂😂😂
what’s the movie at 1:25 where the guy hits someone with noodle dough?
Can you make essay about infernal affair, or about andy lau movies
1:20 the two best things from china are kung fu and pandas!
Have u ever watched a small spring in a summer town? I’d be interested to hear ur opinion on the Shanghai Republican era movies
Shit, just mix the pissing beef balls with the shrimp
I think rather than Chinese food never changing it should be more accurate to say that even throughout countless adaptations and twists and new changes, Chinese food always tastes the same. There are plenty of ways Chinese food changes and adapts and evolves, just look at the menu of a HK cafe. HK borscht, milk tea, New Orleans chicken wings, spa and Mac, none of those are centuries old dishes, but when you eat them they inevitably remind one of home. Regardless of how much the outside changes, the soul of Chinese food remains the same. The only thing that matters is that you cook from the heart
How about this, in Ipman all they do besides fighting is eating, my American friends asked me why they're eating and fighting the whole movie
Ah ~ if that orange polo shirt dude is here
Someone explain why they would still dub Sammo with a Cantonese dub even when he is speaking Cantonese during the takes?
Awesome~