Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) - Dir. Ang Lee | Cooking scene

Worked in Asian restaurants for 15 years. This is how most of the kitchen staff I've seen juliennes veggies.

I feel like you need a razor sharp knife or else everything will slip. Maybe there's a special angle bias in the original slices that can mitigate this.

Makes me want to buy some much sharper knives!

Huge for carrots. You can go about twice as fast as if you cut planks western style.

Such an under-appreciated art. When I was in film school, the sound effects were one of my favorite parts of filmmaking. Who knew that something as mundane as a door closing is something you would edit in afterward?

I’m convinced this is the sequence that created the template for today’s ASMR vids

Maybe just me, but I found it over the top distracting. 

Truly an S tier director for sure. Up there with Rob Reiner in terms of "master of all trades" directors. People give so many flowers to Nolan and Tarantino and Scorsese, but sleep on Lee! 

The Ice Storm. He captured Connecticut beautifully.

Hulk

Don’t forget Ride with The Devil

The camera work of this remake is so nauseating.

Part of the plot. Theres a scene later on where the master chef attempts the same task but is more hesitant bc of his "mid/late life crisis". It shows that he's not so much physically but mentally affected by the new distractions in his life. Really great story telling.

Chopsticks killed it

That annoyed me. No need to scale it if you are going to skin it.

It was already dead in the water if that helps.

At least the chicken gets a little privacy in its last moments.

How many did you need to catch for a full dinner ?

Most people don't cook.

That's a bit of a plot point of the movie.

He's making a big dinner for his daughters

I suspect the order is wrong here. Chicken should have been killed and cleaned first, then the fish gets cleaned and gutted.

I took it as this is throughout the shift he is cooking and doing all these different techniques. It’s not one meal. Then again never saw this movie

I'm a die hard Ang Lee fan but Hulk 2003 starring Eric Bana definitely did happen

Japan has always been big on food presentation and preparation, going back hundreds of years; food p*** is just universal.

It’s a cleanse

It doesn't matter what you eat if you're not eating too much of it (when it comes to gaining weight, anyway, obviously it matters to satisfaction and health).

they walk a lot, the food is fresh, very little sugar, nothing is baked into fat slop with pasta and cheese, etc

because they're only eating a few bites per person, and then a whole ton of rice. this is also supposed to be elaborate cooking, and not an everyday meal. japanese cooking is similar. high grade wagyu is almost too fatty to eat like a westerner, because the cows were bred and razed to be eaten two bites per meal. the beef isn't actually that expensive once you realize how small one portion is supposed to be. add in that nobody drives and you don't really have to count calories. In Europe this is sometimes called the french paradox. "how are the french so skinny with a rich french diet?" they don't eat lapin royal every day, and they walk everywhere. get outside of the cities where you have to drive and people are noticeably fatter.

It's showing cinematography in a movie sublistnook. Whats your question?

Don't make him Ang Lee, you won't like him when he's Ang Lee.

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