- Due to language and adult situations,
the following film is intended for mature audiences
and not suitable for children.
Viewer discretion is advised.
[upbeat music]
- Rong Chen: Hello. [speaking in Chinese]
- Man in background: I'd also like to take your information.
- Rod: Thank you for calling Customer Care.
This is Rod speaking.
How can I assist today?
Hello? - Hello.
- Rod: Yes, hi, this is Rod here with Customer Care.
- No. - Can I assist you today?
There is Yen Ching Restaurant, and we want to change menu.
It's okay?
- Rod: Uh, you want to change the menu?
- Yes.
- Rod: Oh, okay, well,
that should be with Menus Department.
Let me give you their email.
Do you have a pen and paper handy?
- It's my email?
[men speaking Chinese in background]
[Rong Chen replies in Chinese]
Yes, what's the mail number?
- Rod: M-E-N-U-S
at Grubhub.
- At...
grin....
half.
- Rod: Grubhub.com.
- Okay, N-U, N-E-N-U-S?
- Rod: Yeah, M-E-N, like menus,
you know, menus
with an 'S' at the end.
- Rong: Isn't M?
- Rod: At Grubhub.com.
- So M-E-N-U-S, right?
- Rod: Yeah, M-E-N-U-S at Grubhub.com
- Nnnn, okay, N-E-N-U.
- Rod: You got it?
- Hold on a minute.
[speaks in Chinese]
- Man: Sorry, Monica.
Do you have a card, a card I can take with?
- Monica: Oh, yeah.
So you need some business card.
- Man: Sorry, I forgot to ask you.
- Monica: No problem, let me see.
- Rong: It's N-E-N-U or M-E-N-U, hold on.
- Rod: No, okay, just menus.
M-E-N-U-S.
- Oh, M-E-N-U.
Okay, thank you. - At Grubhub.com.
- Okay, thank you. - Rod: No, you're welcome.
Just send the menu to the email
with the restaurant information,
and they'll get those price list items
changed there for you, okay?
- Okay, thank you, bye-bye. - Rod: Bye-bye.
[landline phone beeps, gets dropped]
[vehicles rumbling]
[knife chopping]
[oil frying]
[speaking in Chinese]
[traffic noise from outside]
[kitchen dishes clinking]
[liquid bubbling]
[Alan Lin speaking in Chinese]
[boiling, sizzling, water spraying, dishes clinking]
[Guishan Chen speaking in Chinese]
[people chattering]
[laughing] - Huh?
[speaking in Chinese]
[smacking lips as he chews]
[laughing]
[woman speaking in Chinese]
[slurping meal]
[shovels scraping sidewalk]
[news report in background] - Reporter: Days after the death
of an inventor of the Big Mac,
the creator of another fast food favorite has died.
Peng Chang-kuei, the inventor of General Tso's Chicken,
passed away at the age of 98.
He first created the sauce- covered deep-fried chicken
while cooking for the US Navy Admiral
Arthur Radford
during a visit to Taiwan back in 1952.
The dish became popular in America
when Peng opened his first restaurant in New York in 1973.
[people chattering]
[gentle instrumental music playing in restaurant]
[Guishan laughs warmly]
[Alan Lin laughs]
[brushing teeth vigorously]
[vehicle rumbling]
[other phone is ringing while on speakerphone]
[Xin Chen answers phone] [Guishan Chen speaks in Chinese]
[horn beeps]
[faint upbeat music]
[razor buzzing]
[overlapping conversations in background]
- Hey, you.
[speaking tonally] - A, B, C, D,
E, F, G.
A, B, C, D.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
H. - Teacher: H, here, here.
E. - E.
- F. - F.
- G. - G.
- H. - H.
- Yeah. [speaking in Chinese]
F, G, H.
G is...
H, H...
- F, G.
H. - H, H, H.
- H. - H.
- H, H.
- Alan Lin: E, F, G, H.
[people conversing in Chinese]
- A, apple.
B, bear, bear.
C,
cat, cat.
[people chattering]
[din of a noisy kitchen]
[yelling]
[yelling angrily]
[brisk chopping]
[relaxed music]
[people chattering]
[phones ringing] - Hold on one second.
[multiple phones ringing simultaneously]
Yen Ching's restaurant. [phone ringing]
Table for 10 for here.
- Brad? - Enjoy your meal.
- Customer: Yeah, somebody gets to sit down.
- Man: Yeah, hi, this is Yen Ching Restaurant.
[dishware clinking]
- Xin: Did you eat?
[Alan Lin speaking in Chinese]
[speaking in Chinese]
[people chattering]
[speaking in Chinese]
[Chinese pop music]
[wind howling]
[speaking in Chinese]
[people chattering]
[solemn music]
- Narrator: For more information
about this film and its director,
go to Yinanwang dot art.