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

Pierre Png 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

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