Last Day of Shoot
Lima, Peru August 5, 2003 We are driving in the rain to an out of the way dive that serves…
Cheuk Kwan (page 4)
Say Good Night, Yakar
Istanbul, Turkey July 1, 2001 Today we do our usual market trek with our host. This has become one of…
Epilogue
Lunar New Year Eve Toronto, Canada February 8, 2005 Great Grand Dad was “right on” when he told me, “Once…
Midnight Sun
Tromso, Norway July 2, 2001 I’m having culture shock. We are in IKEA land. The orderly… reserved… bland Nordic airport…
Playing Sven Nykvist
Gotenberg, Sweden July 4, 2001 I woke up at two pm and it’s after five pm by the time we…
Two Diasporas
Toronto, Canada June 30, 2000 I get a call from Cheuk on my cell that Mai’s in town. It took…
Musical Journey
BY JANET LUMB Chinese Restaurants took Cheuk Kwan six years to make, and it took almost as long for the…
Last Tango Buenos Aires II
BY KWOI GIN Chiang’s San Telmo curio shop is sandwiched between a traditional parrilla restaurant and a café that are, to…
Last Tango in Buenos Aires
BY CHEUK KWAN We are at the end of our journey. Four years, 200,000 kilometres, thirteen countries, fifteen stories. And…
“Original, fascinating, charming; human decency at its best.”
SONG OF THE EXILE BY JUNE CALLWOOD Chinese Restaurants is not a travelogue and is not a cooking show. It…
“A series that should, and must be shown everywhere.”
CHINESE RESTAURANTS BY KEN HOM The simple title of this extraordinary documentary series is almost deceiving. It is not a…
Chinese Restaurants: Memory, Histories and Diasporas through Films
BY ANGELA CHOI Cheuk Kwan, Filmmaker and Chinese Diasporic I came to know about Cheuk Kwan’s films via a screening…
Interview with Suite 101.com
Filmmaker Produces TV Series about Chinese Food Around the World BY MARY LUZ MEJIA This month, Mary Luz Meets Filmmaker…
Affective Histories: Eating ‘Chinese’ Across the World
BY SNEJA GUNEW Cultural analysts have noted the increasing popularity of food in films, books, and even a whole television…
Sequins and Ginger
Abstract This paper references two episodes, set in the Caribbean, from director Cheuk Kwan’s 15-episode documentary series entitled “Chinese Restaurants”…
Eating Chinese: Recorded, Excerpted
BY CHEUK KWAN & LILY CHO From 2000 to 2003, Cheuk Kwan and his cinematographer, Kwoi Gin, scoured the world…
South China Morning Post
Planet Wok By Andrew Sun Filmmaker Cheuk Kwan has an obsession. A frequent traveler, he seeks out Chinese restaurants each…
The Toronto Star
Local Filmmaker Makes Mouthful BY NICHOLAS KEUNG Cheuk Kwan craves Chinese food wherever he travels, and the Toronto man has…
The Globe and Mail
Those Eggs Rolls Tell a Story By JAN WONG When Cheuk Kwan backpacked through Europe in the 1970s, he often…