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* CerebusCallBack:
** During the beginning of the film, Stephen orders assorted noodles, critiquing the dish while simultaneously slurping it down. Later in the movie, [[spoiler: when we see the event that led to Stephen’s downfall, Bull Tong makes the same critiques of one of Stephen’s promotional dishes, an overpriced version of assorted noodles.]]
** After Turkey saves Stephen a second time, she starts spontaneously starts singing, which seems odd, even with how over-the-top the movie is. [[spoiler:During the movie’s final act, Wet Dream explains the origin of Stephen’s Sorrowful Fist technique, leading to a flashback where Stephen [[DarkReprise sings a sadder version of Turkey’s song at the Shaolin temple]], holding her heart drawing in his hand. His grief is enough to [[PrematurelyGreyHaired turn his hair gray]].]]
** During the beginning of the film, Stephen orders assorted noodles, critiquing the dish while simultaneously slurping it down. Later in the movie, [[spoiler: when we see the event that led to Stephen’s downfall, Bull Tong makes the same critiques of one of Stephen’s promotional dishes, an overpriced version of assorted noodles.]]
** After Turkey saves Stephen a second time, she starts spontaneously starts singing, which seems odd, even with how over-the-top the movie is. [[spoiler:During the movie’s final act, Wet Dream explains the origin of Stephen’s Sorrowful Fist technique, leading to a flashback where Stephen [[DarkReprise sings a sadder version of Turkey’s song at the Shaolin temple]], holding her heart drawing in his hand. His grief is enough to [[PrematurelyGreyHaired turn his hair gray]].]]
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* ChekhovsGift: Stephen’s business partner gives him a deal for bargain beef after a business meeting. [[spoiler: It turns out this was a ploy to get Stephen’s restaurant shut down and destroy his culinary empire.]]
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* CombatCommentator: Both Nancy and Wet Dream give commentary on the techniques used in the CookingDuel.
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* CuttingBackToReality: [[OrgasmicallyDelicious The taste of a Pissing Beef Ball sends Goosehead into a blissful daydream]], with his henchmen waking him up after he starts to touch himself.
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* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Bull Tong and Stephen’s former business partner let him buy locations from one of their men, as they're too far from urban centers to be useful as new restaurants. However, Stephen uses these locations to package the Pissing Beef Balls to be sold in supermarkets instead. Bull Tong remarks that he can’t predict Stephen’s actions, something the latter said near the beginning when he invites Tong to eat with and humiliate him after dropping his preferred wine.]]
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* SycophantServant: Bull Tong is introduced as willing to do anything to appease Stephen, even going so far as the shit in front of an elevator for him. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as Tong was playing the fool the get close enough to Stephen and destroy his career.]]
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: The "fangirl" who brings flowers. Also, Turkey; [[spoiler: she becomes less abhorrent after some plastic surgery in the ending]].
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: The "fangirl" who brings flowers. Also, Turkey; [[LoonyFan Turkey]]; [[spoiler: she becomes less abhorrent after some plastic surgery in the ending]].
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* BerserkButton: Turkey is quiet about it, but [[spoiler: she loves Stephen and if you attempt to harm him, literally or figuratively, you'll need more than machetes to stop her]].
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* BerserkButton: Turkey is quiet about it, but [[spoiler: she loves [[LoonyFan loves]] Stephen and if you attempt to harm him, literally or figuratively, you'll need more than machetes to stop her]].
--> '''Goosehead''': Don't worry about Turkey. She has gone ever since you left.
--> '''Stephen''': [[TemptingFate Where did she go?]]
--> ''(Cue Turkey running towards Stephen with [[OhCrap an appropriate horrified reaction]])''
--> '''Stephen''': [[TemptingFate Where did she go?]]
--> ''(Cue Turkey running towards Stephen with [[OhCrap an appropriate horrified reaction]])''
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Stephen brings out a folding chair to beat up Bull in the middle of their CookingDuel. Nancy compliments his use of the chair in the same terms as she does the cooking.
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Being on the receiving end of this as a result of his continued beatdowns from the Eighteen Brassmen may have taught Stephen a thing or two about the use of furniture as weapons, as he brings out a folding chair to beat up Bull in the middle of their CookingDuel. Nancy compliments his use of the chair in the same terms as she does the cooking.
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* DeusExMachina One of the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} and ''literal'' examples in Chinese cinema.
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* DeusExMachina DeusExMachina: One of the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} and ''literal'' examples in Chinese cinema.cinema, [[spoiler: where Guanyin shows up to announce that Stephen has redeemed himself while punishing Bull and his business partner for their insolence.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The proposed promo delivered by the MC of the first competition includes a question of whether Chow is a god from the Heavens or a devil from Hell because of his cooking abilities. [[spoiler: The DeusExMachina reveals Chow is a {{Reincarnation}} of the Kitchen God's assistant, exiled from Heaven for having spilled culinary secrets to mankind]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The proposed promo delivered by the MC of the first competition includes a question of whether Chow Stephen is a god from the Heavens or a devil from Hell because of his cooking abilities. [[spoiler: The DeusExMachina reveals Chow Stephen is a {{Reincarnation}} of the Kitchen God's assistant, exiled from Heaven for having spilled culinary secrets to mankind]].
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* LockedIntoStrangeness: Stephen's hair turns white as a result of the HumiliationConga and TrainingFromHell he endures.
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* LockedIntoStrangeness: Stephen's hair turns white as a result of the HumiliationConga and TrainingFromHell he endures.endures in the Shaolin monastery [[spoiler: and his mourning for Turkey's [[DisneyDeath (apparent)]] death.]]
* LoonyFan: Before departing for the culinary school, Turkey is revealed to be ''very'' obsessed towards Stephen, to the point the first thing he does after seeing Turkey is to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere immediately call a taxi and get away from her as far as possible.]]
* LoonyFan: Before departing for the culinary school, Turkey is revealed to be ''very'' obsessed towards Stephen, to the point the first thing he does after seeing Turkey is to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere immediately call a taxi and get away from her as far as possible.]]
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* TheManMakesTheWeapon: If you can be disarmed with a simple teaspoon, you probably haven't been spending enough time behind a chopping block.
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* TheManMakesTheWeapon: If Stephen finds out the hard way [[spoiler: from Bull]] that if you can be disarmed with a simple teaspoon, you probably haven't been spending enough time behind a chopping block.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Performed by the Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin on Stephen.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Performed by the Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin on Stephen.Stephen, which always ends with his bloody carcass dragged back to the monastery.
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* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: [[spoiler: Bull is implied to have never completed his training at the hidden monastery's kitchen. Though "evil" is a bit of a stretch, but given [[BadBoss how he runs his newfound food business empire]] after ousting Stephen and joins hands with a CorruptCorporateExecutive...]]
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* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: [[spoiler: Bull is implied said to have never completed his training at the hidden monastery's kitchen. Though "evil" is a bit of a stretch, but given that he joins hands with a CorruptCorporateExecutive to use his culinary skills to oust Stephen as a fraud to take over the food business, as well as [[BadBoss how he runs his newfound food business empire]] after ousting Stephen and joins hands with a CorruptCorporateExecutive...afterwards...]]
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*** Chow's final dish [[spoiler: after his ex-business partner ruins his Buddha Jumps Over The Wall]] is a simple rice-vegetable-barbeque pork bowl Turkey made for him when they first meet each other. It's dubbed "Sorrowful Rice" (黯然銷魂飯, "Rice Which Causes the Soul to Depart from Sadness"); the strongest [[{{Wuxia}} technique]] used by Yang Guo in ''Literature/TheReturnOfTheCondorHeroes'' is the "[[EmpathicWeapon Melancholic Palms]]".
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*** Chow's Stephen's final dish [[spoiler: after his ex-business partner ruins his Buddha Jumps Over The Wall]] is a simple rice-vegetable-barbeque pork bowl Turkey made for him when they first meet each other. It's dubbed "Sorrowful Rice" (黯然銷魂飯, "Rice Which Causes the Soul to Depart from Sadness"); the strongest [[{{Wuxia}} technique]] used by Yang Guo in ''Literature/TheReturnOfTheCondorHeroes'' is the "[[EmpathicWeapon Melancholic Palms]]".
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Turkey does this to foil the assassin's attempt on Stephen's life, point blank no less. Fortunately, it is revealed at the end that the bullet only hit her prosthetic tooth, which at worst necessitates some plastic surgery.]]
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* TookALevelInBadass: Stephen after training in the hidden monastery.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Stephen after training [[TrainingFromHell training]] in the hidden monastery.monastery.
* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler: Bull's final fate after enraging Guanyin.]]
* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler: Bull's final fate after enraging Guanyin.]]
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Creator/StephenChow plays "Stephen Chow" ([[LostInTranslation the Chinese characters in his name are different from his actual name]]), the undisputed "[[TitleDrop God Of Cookery]]".Cookery]]" (Chinese: 食神). His respect highly valued and his skills beyond compare, he's supported by TheTriadsAndTheTongs and big businesses alike, making him untouchable, until all of a sudden his support dries up and he's cast aside for Bull Tong (Vincent Kok), who reveals Stephen can't actually cook. Thrown and beaten to the street, streets, he's helped by a disfigured noodle vendor named Turkey (singer/actress Karen Mok), until he's dead smack in the middle of brutal gang politics of street food vendors between Turkey and her rival Goosehead. Can Stephen find a way to regain his honor and title?
* ArcWords: "Heart" (心). The best dishes, even if it is something as simple as a rice bowl, are made from putting your heart into cooking it.
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* BadBoss: Stephen at first, later Bull Tong.
* BadMoonRising: Bull gets worried when he sees nine stars in alignment during the final competition.
* BadMoonRising: Bull gets worried when he sees nine stars in alignment during the final competition.
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* BadBoss: Stephen at first, later Bull Tong.
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* BadMoonRising: [[spoiler: Bull gets worried when he sees nine stars in alignment during the final competition.]]
* BadMoonRising: [[spoiler: Bull gets worried when he sees nine stars in alignment during the final competition.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: Bull Tong and the unnamed business partner take over Stephen's food business after instigating a scandal and will do anything to keep Stephen out of the culinary-slash-corporate world [[spoiler: to the point of sending an assassin in an attempt to stop him from reaching the fabled culinary school.]]
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* TheCatCameBack: [[spoiler: When Stephen runs off to mainland China to get away from Turkey.]]
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* TheCatCameBack: [[spoiler: When Stephen runs off to mainland China to look for the fabled culinary school in order to get away from Turkey.]]
** Stephen himself as well, especially during the contest at the beginning and even after he was kicked to the streets. Doubles as a {{Deconstruction}}, as it shows that getting so used to being judgmental of others cooking is ''definitely'' not helping your case when you're reduced to a nobody on the streets.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Stephen's comments about the fishball being "bouncy as a ping pong ball" is then applied to the making of "pissing beef balls", to the point of using said beef ball to [[BrickJoke play ping pong]] during the interview of the stall.
** The barbeque pork rice bowl Turkey made for Stephen during his DespairEventHorizon. Which is repurposed as the backup dish when [[spoiler: Bull destroys his Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.]]
** Stephen's comments about the fishball being "bouncy as a ping pong ball" is then applied to the making of "pissing beef balls", to the point of using said beef ball to [[BrickJoke play ping pong]] during the interview of the stall.
** The barbeque pork rice bowl Turkey made for Stephen during his DespairEventHorizon. Which is repurposed as the backup dish when [[spoiler: Bull destroys his Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: How Stephen found the Shaolin temple.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: How Stephen found the fabled culinary school, which actually a kitchen in the Shaolin temple.monastery.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bull Tong beats and kicks an employee because the latter was concerned that the food offered to children might affect their health.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bull Tong beats and kicks an employee because the latter was concerned that the food offered to children might affect their health.
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** In the opposing dish, the simple [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_siu Chinese Barbeque Pork]] was presented as a contrast via its mundane delicacy that comforts the palate of everyone, [[spoiler: including the judge herself in the initial moment]].
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* LargeHam: Bull Tong takes the cake by laughing evilly while cooking.
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* LargeHam: Bull Tong takes the cake by laughing evilly while cooking.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The last third of the film makes cooking ''awesome''.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The last third of the film makes cooking ''awesome''. And somehow finds a way to make the ordinary barbeque pork rice bowl awesome... enter the "Sorrowful Rice"!
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* SeriousBusiness: Cooking; it's big business, as well.
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* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: [[spoiler: Bull is implied to have never completed his training at the hidden monastery's kitchen. Though "evil" is a bit of a stretch, but given [[BadBoss how he runs his newfound food business empire]] after ousting Stephen and joins hands with a CorruptCorporateExecutive...]]
* SeriousBusiness: Cooking; it's big business, as well.
* SeriousBusiness: Cooking; it's big business, as well.
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** The Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin are a reference to the 1976 Chinese film "18 Bronzemen" (''Shaolin Si Shi Ba Tong Ren'').
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** The Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin are a reference to the 1976 Chinese film "18 Bronzemen" (''Shaolin ''18 Bronzemen'' (少林寺十八銅人, ''Shaolin Si Shi Ba Tong Ren'').
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*** Chow's final dish [[spoiler: after his ex-business partner ruins his Buddha Jumps Over The Wall]] is a simple rice-vegetable-barbeque pork bowl Turkey made for him when they first meet each other. It's dubbed "Sorrowful Rice"; the strongest [[{{Wuxia}} technique]] used by Yang Guo in ''Literature/TheReturnOfTheCondorHeroes'' is the "[[EmpathicWeapon Sorrowful Palm]]".
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*** Chow's final dish [[spoiler: after his ex-business partner ruins his Buddha Jumps Over The Wall]] is a simple rice-vegetable-barbeque pork bowl Turkey made for him when they first meet each other. It's dubbed "Sorrowful Rice"; Rice" (黯然銷魂飯, "Rice Which Causes the Soul to Depart from Sadness"); the strongest [[{{Wuxia}} technique]] used by Yang Guo in ''Literature/TheReturnOfTheCondorHeroes'' is the "[[EmpathicWeapon Sorrowful Palm]]".Melancholic Palms]]".
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Stephen is a serious asshole for 2/3 of the movie
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Stephen is a serious asshole for 2/3 of the moviemovie.
* TheWonka: Stephen, the CEO of the [[spoiler: former]] Tang Dynasty food business empire.
* TheWonka: Stephen, the CEO of the [[spoiler: former]] Tang Dynasty food business empire.
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* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Parodied with the Eighteen Brassmen giving Stephen a major beatdown. A joke that's lost to most people unfamiliar with martial arts films is in the film 18 Bronzemen (see ShoutOut below), a student may not leave until they have defeated the titular 18 Bronzemen meaning that they defeated the best of the best. Here, the joke is if eighteen Brassmen beat the crap out of you, it's not because they're better than you but because [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they outnumbered you 18 to 1]].
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* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Parodied with the Eighteen Brassmen giving Stephen a major beatdown. A joke that's lost to most people unfamiliar with martial arts films is in the film 18 Eighteen Bronzemen (see ShoutOut below), a student may not leave until they have defeated the titular 18 Eighteen Bronzemen meaning that they defeated the best of the best. Here, the joke is if eighteen Brassmen beat the crap out of you, it's not because they're better than you but because [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they outnumbered you 18 to 1]].
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* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Parodied. Parodied with the Eighteen Brassmen giving Stephen a major beatdown. A joke that's lost to most people unfamiliar with martial arts films is the 18 Brassmen giving Stephen a major beatdown. In in the film 18 Bronzemen (see ShoutOut below), a student may not leave until they have defeated the titular 18 Bronzemen meaning that they defeated the best of the best. Here, the joke is if 18 eighteen Brassmen beat the crap out of you, it's not because they're better than you but because [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they outnumber outnumbered you 18 to 1.1]].
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Creator/StephenChow plays "Stephen Chow" ([[LostInTranslation the Chinese characters in his name are different from his actual name]]), the undisputed "[[TitleDrop God Of Cookery]]". His respect highly valued and his skills beyond compare, he's supported by TheTriadsAndTheTongs and big businesses alike, making him untouchable, until all of a sudden his support dries up and he's cast aside for Bull Tong, Tong (Vincent Kok), who reveals Stephen can't actually cook. Thrown and beaten to the street, he's helped by a disfigured noodle vendor named Turkey (singer/actress Karen Mok), until he's dead smack in the middle of brutal gang politics of street food vendors between Turkey and her rival Goosehead. Can Stephen find a way to regain his honor and title?
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** The Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin are a reference to the 1976 Chinese film "18 Bronzemen" (''Shaolin Zi Shi Ba Tong Ren'').
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** The Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin are a reference to the 1976 Chinese film "18 Bronzemen" (''Shaolin Zi Si Shi Ba Tong Ren'').
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Creator/StephenChow plays "Stephen Chow" ([[LostInTranslation the Chinese characters in his name are different from his actual name]]), the undisputed "[[TitleDrop God Of Cookery]]". His respect highly valued and his skills beyond compare, he's supported by TheTriadsAndTheTongs and big businesses alike, making him untouchable, until all of a sudden his support dries up and he's cast aside for Bull Tong, who reveals Stephen can't actually cook. Thrown and beaten to the street, he's helped by a disfigured noodle vendor named Turkey, Turkey (singer/actress Karen Mok), until he's dead smack in the middle of brutal gang politics of street food vendors between Turkey and her rival Goosehead. Can Stephen find a way to regain his honor and title?
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* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Parodied. A joke that's lost to most people unfamiliar with martial arts films is the 18 Brassmen giving Stephen a major beatdown. In the film 18 Bronzemen (see ShoutOut below), a student may not leave until they have defeated the titular 18 Bronzemen meaning that they defeated the best of the best. Here, the joke is if 18 Brassmen beat the crap out of you, it's not because they're better than you but because they outnumber you 18 to 1.
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* ZergRush: A joke that's lost to most people unfamiliar with martial arts films are the 18 Brassmen giving Stephen a major beatdown. In the film 18 Bronzemen (see ShoutOut below), a student may not leave until they have defeated the titular 18 Bronzemen meaning that they defeated the best of the best. Here, the joke is if 18 Brassmen beat the crap out of you, it's not because they're better than you but because they outnumber you 18 to 1.
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* ZergRush: A joke that's lost to most people unfamiliar with martial arts films are the The 18 Brassmen giving rushes and mercilessly beats up Stephen a major beatdown. In the film 18 Bronzemen (see ShoutOut below), a student may not for trying to leave until they have defeated the titular 18 Bronzemen meaning that they defeated the best of the best. Here, the joke is if 18 Brassmen beat the crap out of you, it's not because they're better than you but because they outnumber you 18 to 1.
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* RealityEnsues: A joke that's lost to most people unfamiliar with martial arts films are the 18 Brassmen giving Stephen a major beatdown. In the film 18 Bronzemen (see ShoutOut below), a student may not leave until they have defeated the titular 18 Bronzemen meaning that they defeated the best of the best. Here, the joke is if 18 Brassmen beat the crap out of you, it's not because they're better than you but because they outnumber you 18 to 1.
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* BadassGrandpa: The Headmaster of Shaolin Temple "[[UnusualEuphemism Wet Dream]]"...no, seriously. He drifts away like a ghost, teleports, and makes you bleed out of all your orifices in one strike.
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** In the opposing dish, the simple [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_siu Chinese Barbeque Pork]] was presented as a contrast via its mundane delicacy that comforts the palate of everyone, [[spoiler: including the judge herself]].
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* FoodPorn: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_Jumps_Over_the_Wall Buddha Jumps Over the Wall]]" is a RealLife Fujian dish containing dozens of meats, fish, and shellfish in a stew taking two days to prepare due to the need to let some of the ingredients to sit overnight. It was named by a scholar who thought it was so delicious that Buddha himself would give up vegetarianism to try it.
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** "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_Jumps_Over_the_Wall Buddha Jumps Over the Wall]]" is a RealLife Fujian dish containing dozens of meats, fish, and shellfish in a stew taking two days to prepare due to the need to let some of the ingredients to sit overnight. It was named by a scholar who thought it was so delicious that Buddha himself would give up vegetarianism to tryit.it.
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** In the opposing dish, the simple [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_siu Chinese Barbeque Pork]] was presented as a contrast via its mundane delicacy that comforts the palate of everyone, [[spoiler: including the judge herself]].
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*** After Turkey saves Stephen from Goosehead and his vendors, [[SpontaneousChoreography she immediately starts singing]]. The song is the opening theme to the 1983 LiveActionAdaptation of ''Literature/LegendOfTheCondorHeroes''.
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*** After Turkey saves Stephen from Goosehead and his vendors, [[SpontaneousChoreography she immediately starts singing]]. The song is the opening theme to the 1983 LiveActionAdaptation of ''Literature/LegendOfTheCondorHeroes''.''Literature/TheLegendOfTheCondorHeroes''.
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* DeusExMachina One of the most {{egregious}} and ''literal'' examples in Chinese cinema.
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* DeusExMachina One of the most {{egregious}} JustForFun/{{egregious}} and ''literal'' examples in Chinese cinema.
