Netflix has recently added lots of old Shaw Brothers films - hurrah! Including this stunning wu xia masterpiece with the beautiful Cheng Pei Pei.
May I also recommend a documentary on there - General Tso's Chicken. It's basically the story of the Chinese American diaspora told through food. This dish is not familiar here in the UK, I'm not sure what the equivalent is. One of our national dishes is chicken tikka massala, a subverted Indian dish that has been created to appeal to British palates. It would be interesting to see a documentary made about that.
Talking of documentaries there's a good one on Chinatowns of the world on BBC iPlayer Radio now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0380gh0
May I also recommend a documentary on there - General Tso's Chicken. It's basically the story of the Chinese American diaspora told through food. This dish is not familiar here in the UK, I'm not sure what the equivalent is. One of our national dishes is chicken tikka massala, a subverted Indian dish that has been created to appeal to British palates. It would be interesting to see a documentary made about that.
Talking of documentaries there's a good one on Chinatowns of the world on BBC iPlayer Radio now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0380gh0
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