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...would you want to spend $400 on food that is better prepared at your hawker stall for $2?" asks Chung Ho Shi, the Hong Kong-born chef of the Golden Peony restaurant in the Conrad Centennial Hotel, where Jackie Chan likes to stay and eat high-end Cantonese food. "Fusion got pretty screwed up in the late '90s, with chefs putting too many flavors on the same plate?a little coconut milk, some smoked salmon, some curry," says Otto Weibel, director of kitchens of the Raffles Group and president of the Singapore Chefs Association. "That's not fusion; that...
Kevin K.P. Chan ’07 is running from Lowell House on a similar seafood platform...
...Tension (High Tension) - an aptly titled, gore-drenched thriller successfully released in Europe as Switchblade Romance and set to appear in U.S. theaters in June. She has also clocked up an English-language debut in Frank Coraci's 2004 remake of Around the World in 80 Days, starring Jackie Chan. It was, says De France, a "big door of opportunity thrown open to my career." Yet she had to be coaxed into accepting the part. "I was already involved in a wonderful stage production of [August] Strindberg's Miss Julie with very close friends when the call from Los Angeles...
...despite their ethnicity, they did not fit his conception of what Chinese people looked like." What were they supposed to look like? Warner Oland? No, not a Dane like Oland - Austrians! Paul Muni played Wang, Luise Rainer was O-lan and Tilly Losch got the role of Lotus. Wong, Chan, speculates, was "Too beautiful for one part and too old for the other." (Anna May's younger sister Mary Liu Heung Wong did get the small role of the Little Bride. She hanged herself in the family garage...
...while wheedling strategic information from Kaimura, the Japanese officer in town. "There is a fragile but durable beauty in you, Madame," purrs the smitten swine, to which Kwan Mei says, "Perhaps I'm as aged-looking as the Great Wall." No, she is fetching in her improbable gear. Anthony Chan observes: "Even as the rebel leader in the rice fields, Kwan Mei wears a silk suit with handwoven buttons...