Cookery". In an act of divine intervention, the Imperial Court of Heaven descends upon the competition and reveal that in another life, Chow was a heavenly assistant to the Kitchen God, before being sent to Earth to live as a human as punishment for revealing culinary secrets to mankind. Moved by his sorrow and his humbleness, they forgive him. They then transform Chow's former business partner into a bulldog and perforate Bull's chest with a large hole. After the competition, Chow celebrates Christmas with his vendor friends in Temple Street, where Goosehead reveals that Turkey survived the assassination. Having caught the bullet meant for Chow with her gold-plated teeth and reconstructed her face with plastic surgery and dental work, she appears before him and asks how she looks. Chow responds by throwing her the completed drawing of two arrow-pierced hearts. Cast Stephen Chow as 'Stephen Chow' (史提芬周 Sitaifan Chow) Karen Mok as Turkey (火雞, Fo Gai) / Guanyin Vincent Kok as Bull Tong (唐牛, Tong Ngau) Ng Man-tat as Uncle Lee Siu-Kei as Goosehead (鵝頭, Ngo Tau) Tats Lau as Wet Dream (夢遺, Mung Wai) Christy Chung as the girl in the dream sequence (cameo) Nancy Sit as herself (cameo) Lee Kin-yan as the nose-picking transvestite (cameo) Law Kar-ying as competition host Stephen Au Lam Suet Tin Kai-Man Kingdom Yuen In-film references The scenes in the Buddhist monastery reference 18 Bronzemen, as the monks call themselves the "18 Brassmen". "Sorrowful Rice" (黯然銷魂飯) is a reference to Yang Guo's Melancholic Palms (黯然銷魂掌) technique. The final battle between Chow and Bull Tong itself contains a couple of tongue-in-cheek references to Jin Yong (Louis Cha)'s The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber and The Legend of the Condor Heroes in the original Cantonese dialogue, which is however obscured in the English subtitles. Canceled Remake In 1998, director and star Stephen Chow planned to remake God of Cookery for English markets with Jim Carrey playing the lead role. The film was being adapted into English by writer Marc Hyman, and film rights were purchased by 20th Century Fox, but the film failed to come to fruition. See also Chūka Ichiban! (1995 debut), a cooking manga and anime series set in China Cook Up a Storm (2017), a Chinese cooking film God of Gamblers II (1990), a Stephen Chow gambling film God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (1991), a Stephen Chow gambling film References External