本剧以凤城市委为了向全球推广凤城的饮食和旅游文化特举办了首届全球华人中华厨王争霸赛邀请全球有华人血统的厨师汇聚凤城交流厨艺比赛争夺中华厨王的称号凤城已经过逝的国宝级大厨师黄师傅有三个徒弟阿中阿华阿仁他们于15年前黄师傅过逝后不久便分开了阿中留在凤城开了一家餐饮店龙腾山庄他秉承师父的遗训真心实意真材实料做人做事；阿华贪恋西方的生活嫁给一个美国华裔移居到了美国不久后却因为性格不合而离婚阿仁偷渡去了香港因为黑户的身份在香港也很难生活只是靠在小餐馆打零工渡日分散近15年的师兄姐弟在全球华人厨王争霸赛的召唤下又重新一起相聚在凤城共同研讨当年师父留下的天下第一菜的菜谱但这天下第一菜的菜谱看似简单实质却是很不同寻常艰奥难懂众人经过几番曲折之后定下心来细细思量才真正领悟了师父的本意才真正领悟了厨房的终极秘密
In Uruguay, they don#39t say cheese in front of the camera they say whisky Beneath the artificially photographed smiles, however, is a blueprint for the quotSouth American Gothic,quot minus the farm and the forks These Montevidean folks#39 stony expressions belie a life gripped frozen by accustomed routines So it goes with an old Jewish bachelor who owns an ageing sock factory When his estranged younger brother decides to visit for their mother#39s burial, he asks his employee Marta to pose as his wife The resulting encounter creates clumsy silences that are uncomfortably comic Grand Prize, Tokyo Film Festival and FIPRESCI prize from Cannes 這一代的年輕人真係好老成好cool兩個新導演還不到三十便已拍出型到飛起黑色到痺的老人寂寞晚境話說襪廠老闆阿積孤家寡人寂寞到死一天飛來鴻雁巴西的弟弟話來拜訪他要表面風光唯有求忠厚下屬瑪泰暫充老婆兩個名字同樣叫孤獨的六十幾歲人忽然親近彆扭得不在話下口若懸河的巴西弟弟一出現畫面調子大轉彎三人海邊度假瑪泰沉睡的神經率先波動往後發生的事估都估唔到郭利斯馬基式冷面幽默扭橋扭到熱帶南美黑色照舊輕描淡寫功力同樣高超另一種風情絕對原創去年康城驚艷連奪國際影評人獎及原創觀點大獎 Source 29th HKIFF 2005
