Chicken Rice War

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

Awards

 * Discovery Award at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival
 * Special Jury Award Miami Film Festival 2002
 * Nominee Best Film Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2002