Cook Up a Storm

Cook Up a Storm (Chinese: 决战食神 lit: Clash of the Culinary Gods) is a 2017 Hong Kong culinary drama film directed by Raymond Yip and starring Nicholas Tse, Jung Yong-hwa, Ge You, Tiffany Tang, Michelle Bai and Anthony Wong.

Both have reasons to climb the culinary ladder—When Sky was ten years old, his father, Mountain Ko (Anthony Wong), left him behind with his friend, Uncle Seven (Ge You), master chef of Seven Restaurant.

In reality, Mountain chose to pursue his culinary career over being a father and made the excuse that Sky can't even make a decent bowl of noodles.

Through that journey, he became a highly successful chef in Europe and decides to run his own restaurant in Hong Kong, Stellar.

However, the Li Management Group arrives and starts buying various properties of the old sector, including developing Stellar for Paul.

The opening of Stellar proves to be a threat to Sky as these two chefs find themselves fighting for the best ingredients in the markets and maintaining their clientele.

While both tied in points, the judges declare Paul the victor, as his dish presentation was superior to Sky's bland plating.

It was while celebrating their victory that the manager of Li Group tells Paul he wants to replace him with Mei You (Michelle Bai), sous chef and girlfriend, reasoning that a woman is far more appealing on media than a man.

Mountain creates a beautiful artistic sugar display of molten lava with a single flower on top.

[1] Overseas, the film grossed US$44,148 in Australia,[2] and US$18,373 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and South Korea,[3] for a worldwide total of US$18,102,521.