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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Vocabulary

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jiè (bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm HSK 6
jiāo ào pride; arrogance; conceited; proud of sth HSK 6
gòng xiàn to contribute; to dedicate; to devote; contribution HSK 6
lonely; solitary HSK 6
jīng essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) HSK 6
zhǔ to cook; to boil HSK 6
kuài cheerful; cheerily; delightful; pleasant; pleasantly; pleasing; happy; delighted HSK 6
sài grand contest HSK 6
běn shēn itself; in itself; per se HSK 6
chú to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including HSK 6
néng fǒu whether or not; can it or can't it; is it possible? HSK 6
shì ceremony HSK 6
to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) HSK 6
tíng court of law HSK 6
liáo to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly HSK 6
to entertain; to amuse; entertainment; recreation; amusement; hobby; fun; joy HSK 6
chǎo to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) HSK 6
suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
bào to explode or burst; to quick fry or quick boil HSK 6
zuì jiā optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc) HSK 6
jiàn double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword HSK 6
shuō shí huà to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly HSK 6
texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up HSK 6
fàn to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) HSK 6
cuò guò to miss (train, opportunity etc) HSK 6
ruò to seem; like; as; if HSK 6
sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit HSK 6
quán authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary HSK 6
sài to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel HSK 6
to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 HSK 6
tóu piào to vote; vote HSK 6
shá dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] HSK 6
zài no more; no longer HSK 6
zuì zhōng final; ultimate HSK 6
Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting HSK 6
to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 HSK 6
special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex HSK 6
chāo to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra-; super- HSK 6
zuō worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) HSK 6
as; as if; such as HSK 6
(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
zhuāng shén - nòng guǐ lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom); fig. to create a false sense of mystery; to play tricks to deceive or scare others; to engage in hocus-pocus Idiom ∼HSK 5
广 shén tōng guǎng (idiom) to possess great magical power; to possess remarkable abilities Idiom ∼HSK 5
chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
dǎn féi (coll.) bold; brazen; to have a lot of nerve Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
miǎo second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly Colloquialism HSK 5
hǎi dǎn sea urchin ∼HSK 5
háo moat, trench, ditch ∼HSK 5
cài pǐn culinary dish ∼HSK 5
lán overflowing; waves, ripples ∼HSK 5