
Chicken Rice War is a Singaporean 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. CastPierre Png ... Fenson WongMay Yee Lum ... Audrey ChanCatherine Sng ... Wong KuGary Yuen ... Vincent ChanKevin Murphy ... Leon DeliKelvin Ng ... Sydney WongSu Ching Teh ... Penelope ChanWui Seng Cheong ... Wong TerrIrene Ong ... Wendy ChanWeng Kee Lee ... Chan TickGary Loh ... Muscle MikeJo Jo Struys ... CherylRandall Tan ... Nick CarterZalina Abdul Hamid ... Fat LadyMohan Sachden ... MuthiahAlias Kadir ... AhmadEdmund L. Smith ... Mr. PillayPaul Tan ... TV presenterTanya Chua ... HerselfJonathan Lim ... Hugo A Go GohUttsada Panichkul ... HimselfKevin Poh ... CapuletJamie Yeo ... Herself SynopsisChicken rice war is loosely based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in the same way as Shakespeare in Love. 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's 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.Although this is the main story line, it is all the side stories that make Chicken Rice War a truly enjoyable comedy, with the continuous fights between the families scaring customers away, the to idle gossipers, the go-go dancing chicken whole seller and the Fat Lady, to mention but a few.