{"id":240,"date":"2007-08-23T04:22:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=240"},"modified":"2007-08-23T04:22:24","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T04:22:24","slug":"hard-boiled-pan-asian-food-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/08\/23\/hard-boiled-pan-asian-food-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Boiled &#038; Pan-Asian food fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/2007.08.22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-763\" title=\"2007.08.22\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/2007.08.22-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>If you haven&#8217;t seen Chow Yun Fat&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0104684\/\">Hard-Boiled<\/a>, you&#8217;re probably wondering why he would be carrying both a shotgun and a baby on the movie poster. Last night was my first time watching this movie, and I must admit that it was completely ridiculous, but totally AWESOME! For those of you who are not in the know, this film pretty much defined HK action cinema as a genre, and elevated John Woo&#8217;s slow-mo gunplay to a form of art. Forget the fact that their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imfdb.org\/index.php?title=Beretta_M92F\">M92Fs<\/a> can fire hundreds of rounds without reloading. Forget the crazy premise of an illegal arms cache behind the morgue. Does it really matter? The movie was a masterpiece of bad-ass action, down to the final scene when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000334\/\">Chow Yun Fat<\/a> swings out of a hospital as it burst into flames to rescue the last baby from the labor ward (even though the baby looks waaay too big for a newborn). Anyway, it was a perfect complement to our Pan-Asian food fest in NYC this past weekend, which started with steaming ramen from the food court at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitsuwanj.com\/en\/index.htm\">Mitsuwa<\/a> marketplace in NJ, followed by cold dungeoness crab, abalone soup, and fried frog legs at <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.citysearch.com\/profile\/11488876\/new_york_ny\/ping_s_seafood.html\">Ping&#8217;s Seafood<\/a>, and finished with lunch buffet at <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.citysearch.com\/profile\/36912282\/new_york_ny\/brick_lane_curry_house.html\">Brick Lane Curry House<\/a>. Hmmm, I&#8217;m getting hungry just writing about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen Chow Yun Fat&#8217;s Hard-Boiled, you&#8217;re probably wondering why he would be carrying both a shotgun and a baby on the movie poster. Last night was my first time watching this movie, and I must admit that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/08\/23\/hard-boiled-pan-asian-food-fest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}