A modern Romeo and Juliet love story, reframed as a comic battle between two food-stall owners in Singapore, Chicken Rice War is a rough-and-ready, defiantly indigenous entertainment that's enjoyed modest business since its mid-November bow. Lively but chaotic opening sketches the 20-year running battle between two tiny adjacent eateries, each jealously guarding its culinary formulae. Love eventually blooms between the owners' offspring, snooty Audrey Chan (supermodel Lum May-yee, from 12 Storeys) and wimpy Fenson Wong (Pierre Png, from Forever Fever), with the youngsters trying to end the feud by revealing the recipe secrets.
Derek Elley