Cook Up a Storm

Cook Up a Storm 2017

juézhàn shí shén

An international culinary competition becomes a battleground between rival cooks, one famous for his Cantonese street food and the other a Michelin-starred chef trained in France. But their rivalry takes an unexpected turn when they discover a common foe and combine their skills in a fusion of East and West.

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4.32 Intermediate Director Raymond Yip Wai-Man IMDb 6.3

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guǒ if; in case; in the event that HSK 2
jīng already HSK 2
zhè yàng this kind of; so; this way; like this; such HSK 2
can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good HSK 2
to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished HSK 2
wéi as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) HSK 2
oneself; one's own HSK 2
dàn but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just HSK 2
ràng to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) HSK 2
ā interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! HSK 2
duō xiè many thanks; thanks a lot Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
wàng běn to forget one's roots Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
dòng motionless Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
hǎo chī tasty; delicious Xiehouyu HSK 1
hǎo kàn good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated Xiehouyu HSK 1
gān dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder Xiehouyu HSK 1
huì improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
yǒu běn shi to have what it takes; (coll.) (often followed by) (used to challenge sb) if you're so clever,..., if she's so tough,... etc; Example: Hit me if you dare! Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
chī de (coll.) food Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
hǎo bu hǎo (coll.) all right?; OK? Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhēn shi indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kàn kan to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
jīn r (coll.) today Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kuài a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
wàn (coll.) big shot; big name; bigwig; heavyweight Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
duì duì right or wrong?; Is it right?; OK, yes? (colloquial) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
xiǎo de (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
cài dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor Colloquialism HSK 1
ròu meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130 Colloquialism HSK 1
ba (coll.) father; dad Colloquialism HSK 1
kuài lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units Colloquialism HSK 1
(coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 1
(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) Colloquialism HSK 1
zhāo (chess) move; trick; all right!; (dialect) to add HSK 1
Sān xīng Samsung (South Korean electronics company); Sanxing or Sanhsing Township in Yilan County, Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Ào mén Macao or Macau, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
guó France Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
běn Japan Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Hán guó South Korea (Republic of Korea); (historical) Han, one of the Seven Warring States Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Hán guó rén Korean (person) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Zhōng guó rén Chinese person Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
西 西 Zhōng China and the West; Chinese-Western Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Lǐng nán south of the five ranges; old term for south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
广 Guǎng dōng Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Yìn India Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
yǒu qǐng to request the pleasure of seeing sb; to ask sb in; to ask sb to do sth (e.g. make a speech) ∼HSK 1
xià (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly ∼HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1