older people in town were like, ‘We don't know if America is ready for two Asian American men as leads in a comedy.'" A few days before shooting the movie, Cho knocked on Penn’s door and told him, “If we’re supposed to be best friends, we’d better start hanging out together.” They went to get a beer together and under artificial conditions, began a real friendship. Filming Harold & Kumar began filming on May 12, 2003. The film is set in New Jersey, but was mainly filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Scenes set at Princeton University were actually filmed at the University of Toronto's Victoria College and Knox College. The production design team had to build a White Castle franchise especially for the shoot since Canada does not have White Castle restaurants. During filming, Penn ate veggie burgers as he is a vegetarian. Soundtrack Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: Original Soundtrack was released on July 27, 2004. It contains 16 songs from the film. Track list "Chick Magnet" – MxPx "One Good Spliff" – Ziggy Marley / The Melody Makers "Yeah (Dream of Me)" – All Too Much "Righteous Dub" – Long Beach Dub All Stars "Skunk One" – Kottonmouth Kings "Same Old Song" – Phunk Junkeez "White Castle Blues" – The Smithereens "Crazy On You" – Heart "Cameltoe" – Fannypack "Kinda High, Kinda Drunk" – Coolio "Mary Jane" – Rick James "I Wanna Get Next to You" – Rose Royce "Hold On" – Wilson Phillips "Ridin'" – Classic & 86 "Arrival at White Castle" – Heiruspecs "Total Eclipse of the Heart" – Nicki French Songs that are in the film but do not appear on the soundtrack include: "Also Sprach Zarathustra" – David Kitay, Richard Strauss "Baby Baby" – Amy Grant "Ballin' Boy" – No Good "Click Click Pow" – Lexicon (real song title is "The Official") "Warrior Dance" – Zion I feat. Pep Love "Fall In Line" – Phunk Junkeez "Faraway" – Dara Schindler "Gangsta Gangsta" – J. O'Neal / D. Black "Girl From Ypsilanti" – Daniel May "Let's Get Retarded" – Black Eyed Peas (this song is the unedited version of their "Let's Get It Started" hit) "Looney" – Moonshine Bandits "Mariachi Speier" – Eric Speier "On the Ganges" – Matt Hirt "Rock to the Rhythm" – Lexicon (actual song name is "Rock") "Rock Your Body 2004" – Stagga Lee "Ooh Wee" – Mark Ronson