Chicken Rice War


Chicken Rice War is a Singaporean romantic comedy film released in 2000 by Raintree Pictures. It is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in a Singaporean setting, where fierce competition between rival chicken rice hawkers resulted in bitter enmity. The old feud between chicken rice hawker families' stand in the way of their young offspring who fell for one another.

Synopsis

Chicken Rice War is loosely based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this movie the Montagues and Capulets are represented by the families Wong and Chan. Both families run Chicken Rice stalls side by side in the same market, something that the authorities say is impossible, since it is not allowed. The underlying conflict is about the secret family recipes that has been kept secret for generations, but apart from that nobody really knows what the fight is about.
Audrey Chan is a beautiful, vain and spoilt girl who is the most popular girl in school. Fenson Wong is an insecure young man with a stutter who, of course, is madly in love with Audrey. Their only common interest is Shakespeare and the version of Romeo and Juliet that they are setting up at school. When Fenson gets the chance to replace Audrey's beautiful but dim boyfriend as Romeo he starts seriously dreaming about capturing Audrey's heart.

Cast

as Fenson Wong

May Yee Lum as Audrey Chan

Catherine Sng as Wong Ku

Gary Yuen as Vincent Chan

Kevin Murphy as Leon Deli

Kelvin Ng as Sydney Wong

Su Ching Teh as Penelope Chan

Wui Seng Cheong as Wong Terr

Irene Ong as Wendy Chan

Weng Kee Lee as Chan Tick

Gary Loh as Muscle Mike

Jo Jo Struys as Cheryl

Randall Tan as Nick Carter

Zalina Abdul Hamid as Fat Lady

Mohan Sachden as Muthiah

Alias Kadir as Ahmad

Edmund L. Smith as Mr. Pillay

Paul Tan as TV presenter

Tanya Chua as Herself

Jonathan Lim as Hugo A Go Goh

Uttsada Panichkul as Himself

Kevin Poh as Capulet

Jamie Yeo as Herself

Awards