The God of Cookery (Chinese: 食神) is a 1996 Hong Kong comedy film which was co-directed by Stephen Chow and Lee Lik-chi. The film features an ensemble cast include Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Vincent Kok and Richard Ng.
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Stephen Chow is a corrupt celebrity chef who runs a successful business empire. Dubbed the "God of Cookery", he humiliates other chefs in a culinary competition where he appears as a judge, despite knowing very little about cooking himself.
Bull Tong, posing as an understudy and conspiring with Chow's business partner, exposes Chow as a fraud and is declared the new "God of Cookery", taking over Chow's empire. Ruined, Chow arrives at Temple Street where he orders a bowl of "assorted noodles" from disfigured food cart vendor Turkey, reveals himself to be the fallen "God of Cookery", and asks her for money. Thugs beat him for his panhandling, but Turkey orders them away, taking pity on Chow and giving him a bowl of barbecue pork on rice, moving Chow to tears.
Turkey and her rival street vendor Goosehead are engaged in gang warfare, both trying to monopolise the sale of beef balls and "pissing" shrimp in the area. Chow unites them by combining the two dishes into "Pissing Beef Balls", which becomes a huge success. The vendors convince Chow to enroll in a culinary school in order to reclaim his lost title, revealing that Turkey still worships him as the "God of Cookery", receiving her scars from fighting a gang member who once insulted a picture of Chow.