Zone Pro Site
Chan Hsiao Wan is the shy
daughter of the late legendary Master Fly Spirit. On her way through train, she
met a gourmet doctor named Yeh Ru Hai, as she traveled back to Ai-Fong at her
restaurant to get away from the mafia. The Step-Mother named Ai-Fong is a fish
saleswoman, and now owner of her husband’s restaurant, but trying to save it,
because she lost a bet and business to Master Fly Spirit’s apprentice, Tsai.
One day, she was commissioned to do catering for a wedding, but she doesn’t
know how to make their specific food, so Wan insist to cook instead. Problem is
she doesn’t have a plan and her dad’s cookbook she lost to a bum, so she called
the Gourmet Doctor, as he as Hai coincidentally came and make great dishes, so
great it became Ai-Fong’s specialty for her restaurant. Luckily, Hai knows some
help to cook, as he brings up Hsia aka the Master Tiger Nose. They meet Master
Tiger Nose, and tried his famous Fried Rice Noodle. They love the Fried Rice
Noodle so much; they cooked it for catering a business meeting. The head of the
business meet had an Anton Ego flashback (Ratatooie) after eating the Fried
Rice Noodle; he suggested them to enter the National Catering Contest, and to
win one million dollars. Ai-Fong spots Master Ghost Head, he tried the special,
but didn’t like it as he became a threat, even as Tsai’s secret weapon. Wan’s
being trained by Master Ghost Head as his taster, since the Master lost his
sense of taste. Wan enters the National Catering Contest in her altered
father’s chef uniform, and help of the same mafias, and an expected help. They entered
the final round, but desperately needs certain ingredient to win. Will Wan’s
team win the contest and million dollars to the mafia, and will the mafia drop
the charge since they’re in the team?
Wan has a cute personality
& appealing style, and it’s rare to have female starring fictional
character to be a chef (except to Queen Latifah in Last Holiday to an extent.),
despite she rarely cook compare to her step-mom, Hai, and the mafia. Majority
of cooking films usually stars males mostly to follow the father’s footstep.
This can be done right in films such as Julie & Julia, Food Wars (not to be
confused with Restaurant Wars), and Sweeny Todd, as there’s bad example such as
Fighting Foodon, and just about any reality food shows that has 95% of the
interviewers and 5% actual cooking. Interesting how she doesn’t want to be a
chef at first, but family traditions was in jeopardy, and she need to overcome
her fear of failure to her father and fish. Hai’s a good gourmet doctor and
cook. Surprisingly there’s such a thing as a Gourmet Doctor, it’s definitely refreshing
than the food critics you see identically in Chopped. It’s strange that he’s
cooking food opposing to Wan in the contest, but he’s a free-range doctor
anyone can hire him. The foods made in
the film are very impressive, and how they’re made that I would like to try
them at a nearby Tai restaurant. The film does need trimming down for how long
the film is being 2 hours and twenty minutes. Probably cut some of the side characters’
scenes short, while they’re entertaining and useful, we probably don’t need
moments of mugging and poker games. The mafia are probably the funniest mafias
I seen in films lately, since majority of mafia are usually the boring part in
any films as hand-me-downs of Godfather or Goodfellas or Fat Tony from the
Simpsons. Some of the comedies are quick to the point visually that it’s funny
such as the father coming out of his grave.
Overall, Zone Pro Site is a fun, delectable, and
sweet kind of film we do need from the bitter dramas that’s gone
oversaturated.
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