a.k.a Mr. Chow | Official Trailer | HBO
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Meet the man behind the name.
#akaMrChow, an @HBO Original Documentary and vibrant portrait of the artist, actor, and famed restaurateur Michael Chow, premieres October 22 on @StreamOnMax.
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"The worst thing about racism is that it hurts.... You take away my glasses and my Rolls Royce and suddenly I'm not good enough anymore...." That hit me hard.
yeah I can't imagine someone talking away my rolls Royce... this guy is literally jesus
yup i get it
i think what he probably means - though poorly worded - is that if you take away his material objects and status symbols, he's then just seen as "Chinese" and not good enough. @@Brandon-tk2rw
@@Brandon-tk2rw😂
my fellow black ppl (the ones who need to hear it not all)do this stop complaining and bsing
I worked for Mr Chow, it was very challenging but what a passionate person to work for , he brought the Chinese cuisine to a different level. Thanks for all the lessons learned.
I did too! He was so fun and charismatic
I worked for him as well. What a brilliant man
His father is the real deal. The greatest artist in the Chinese history.
周信芳？
@@shanehuang2111sure
I had never heard of this person before, but it turns out he comes from a very illustrious Shanghainese family. Both his father and brother were famous Peking Opera performers, and both were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for their craft. His sister is Tsai Chin, Bond Girl in 'You Only Live Twice' and also featured in 'The Joy Luck Club' as Aunty Lindo. His mother came from a prominent, wealthy family of tea merchants.
nepo baby
His mother was a famous socialite back then in Shanghai, Born into a very wealthy family doing banking business of some Scottish descent. she later on fell for his father who's already a married man with 3 kids, but they ran away and had 6 kids together eventually, as we can imagine how furious her family was, his mother even made a public statement in newspaper that she's gonna cut the tie with her own family, that was 1920s
@@way03tak Love, it's a powerful thing.
His daughter is / was an actress. She was in the Big Hit. One of those movies that would get shown on cable pretty frequently (when everyone had cable). That's the only reason I know about him. Plus, Mr Chow's restaurant is pretty famous.
This made me tear up for rage. Definitely be yourself and true to you always.
I went to Mr. Chow's for the first time in my early twenties for a work event some decade ago. Everything about his establishment and the people who work there was absolutely perfect. I'm excited to see this documentary on the enigmatic man behind the famous name.
I’m definitely watching this. I remember visiting the MET exhibition of his first wife Tina Chow’s wardrobe. It was amazing.
This is a must see documentary! HBO thank you!
He truly is one in a billion.
Beautiful! Life and creativity fill me up with this story. Michael and his wife Vanessa live epic lives full of art, adventure, beauty, and magical energy. Always in the right place at the right time.
I only know Mr. Chow for the peaking duck. We always get one on special occasions. It's also where celebs go after awards nights. Didn't know he was an actual person. When I saw the thumbnail for this video I thought, good lord they are making a Hangover spinoff of that Ken Jeong character.
My exact sentiments when I started watching it, thought it was just about a special film buff who knew the opening of every movie going lol, amazing documentary!
he's actually a white dude in yellow face thats the documentary
Right, I just watched this and thought it was a comedy or film buff doing first scenes from all movies but as I watched it, it clicked in. I really didn’t know he was the Chinese actor in all those 60’s movies I’d see and wonder was he still acting along with his sister as a kid back then. It still didn’t click in about Mr Chow. I knew of a new Chinese restaurant in Knightsbridge that has a spiral stairs in the window as we walked passed all the time and I’d gaze in. Kinda made me laugh as I was use to Chinatown back in the early 70’s but Mr Chow had non Chinese staff waiting on tables. Very strange back then to see this.
One day on tv back then, there was a kids program that filmed in there and they sang a song and I still remember some of it to this day. It went like this….’What are you cooking Mr Chow, what are you cooking and how…’ that’s all I can remember unfortunately. Based on that and we ate out a lot back in the 70’s in London, wearing my little velvet suit and Bally shoes in some very lovely places my parents took us too and I said let’s try Mr Chow and we did. Even met Mr Chow himself there when we dined and my parents had a quick chat with him. Bought back lovely memories from back then thinking just now…..
I really enjoyed this documentary, I didn’t know he was such a talented artist, I just assumed he was famous for his restaurant in London, amazing and well done indeed! 👍🥂
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
My dad had worked for Mr Chow, he worked in his London & New York restaurant. I met Mr Chow a few times both in NY and London when he used his brand name for a restaurant in Seoul. I’ll always have fond memories of the holiday parties we had at Mr Chow when the restaurant was closed. All the kitchen staff & family would get together for a cookout.
Mr. Chow ohhhh this is going to be so good!
Please have a documentary of his father, one and only Master Zhou Xinfang
This looks amazing. I can’t wait to watch.
There should be a movie about Mr. Chow maybe direct by Ang Lee or Martin Scorsese.
Thank you 🙏
Thank you HBO for making this, one of the few (great) documentaries focused on Asians in the West.
A legend!! I can’t wait :)
While abroad, Mao Zedong's cultural revolution took hold in China. His mother was killed and his father died in prison. "At 13, I lost everything. Meaning, I lost my parents, my culture, my country, smell, everything in a split-second. How did a THIRTEEN year old boy, overcame such a tragedy? Absolutely remarkable.
this is just issue with every single Asian male trying to survive in the West. He dealt with it on another level.
You left me breathless! I can’t believe how naturally you embodied the song 🥺🖤
"No matter where you go, you are your race/nationality." A common message these days.
“No matter where you go, there you are.”- Robin Williams
Yup. What white or white-passing people need to understand is that yes everyone has their issues and stresses in life but POC have an extra added anxiety when they present themselves in public or any sort of social situation that you simply wouldn't understand. What he said about taking off his glasses, not wearing "luxury clothes" or looking 100% put together is so true. A white man or woman can get away with looking dishevelled. (it's edgy, it's fashion or he's in an indie band) but you can't say the same thing about a non white person. We just have to try harder. The point being = there is a privilege you have and it's okay to acknowledge this and talk about it.
Take away the glasses, take away the Rolls, and I'm still just a guy sloshing paint on canvas 😂
this looks amazing. love him!
Well done!
Can we please have a documentary dedicated to the life and impact of Tina Chow?
That will bring viewership. Why?
that exposes the heartless monster named in this documentary ?
well I didn't say *that*@@matsudaseiko
@@matsudaseiko always someone broke mad at someone rich
Agreed. She was a fashion icon, striking beauty, and among the first high-profile females (after Gia) to die from AIDS, and I feel like so little about her is generally known outside of the photos.
Wow - yess!!!
I remember him from Rush Hour 2
Can wait to see this...
Imagine all the Chinese history, culture, and art destroyed by the Cultural Revolution. Its unfathomable.
It looks magnificent!! ✨🙌🙌🙌
It was a great watch!
I can’t wait to see this!
..strong country strong people...he said he never forget he is a Chinese...that is still what is true right now...
I don’t think that is what he meant
@@leoyuiphone yea.. but that is fact like it or not
brilliant
Fun fact. If you search for Mr Chow in UA-cam search box, you only get Ken Jeung's role as Mr Chow from the movie Hangover.
"Meet me at midnight at Mr. Chow's"
Excellent!!
As a Chinese abroad, I salute u
Beautiful ❤
WOO!
Free at last
I ain’t gonna front on Mr. Chow
no idea who this is but he reminds me of salvador dali.
Me too
As a painter I’ll watch this to be inspired to paint
In the documentary there is a background music piece (classical). Does anyone know what they play?
I can't wait to see Hollywood make movie version of this story with casting White man for role of Mr.Chow
Come on now.. this can only be played by the one and only Matt Damon
@@andrewpoon9167- Matt Damon is one of the greatest Asian actor.
😂 ikr smh
I am interested in the food.
Remarkable
He’s worthy of study.
The trick is not to be like him but to take what he learned and be like you.
Much of what he knows is transferable.
All of creation learns from each other.
Pride brings it to an abrupt stop!
Born into fame yet he suffers as a servant in a land not his own while absorbing the slings and arrows of being different.
He was offered 2 choices , food and laundry.
What’s it gonna be?
FOOD!
A binary choice.
His advantage (we all have one!)
Was a diligent work ethic in a land where it wasn’t a requirement.
He beat everyone.
In a lane all his own.
So he now can name his price.
(Just because you won’t pay $1200 for Chinese food doesn’t mean somebody else won’t! Just sell to the ones that will!”
So many lessons.
But there’s one lesson that opens the door to the rest….
You do what you gotta do in order to get what you wanna get!
Don’t know what you want yet?
Look around.
Spend a month looking at what other people do then say “I wanna be that!”
Then take your licks and be it!
Beautifully written!!!
True to Themselves. 😎
"... but did you die?" 🤪
Just random post modern art, the restaurant looked good tho
Is that where the term chow as in food comes from?
No That was invented by Norm Macdonald in SNL skit.
Didn’t I see him in Rush Hour 2 for like 4 seconds?
Was looking for this comment, glad I'm not the only one who noticed 😅
@@gregorymakap 🤣 okaaaaay it’s not just me!
Mr Plow.
Rather prefer to remeber him as the sidekick of Blofeld in his volcano lair.
0:53
So little was told about Tina Chow.
Interesting, all I know about Mr. Chow is that he was married to the beautiful, Tina Chow.
Zoomers talk like if they grew up in 1980s with Mr.Chow & JMB
people make fun of artist cause of some painting,. snash etc.. iam an artist they say anybody can do this showing show videos,... haha some art is mezmerizing,. some simply truely anyone can smash, splatter, drop, scatter paint... isnt it ??
I wish I could go to his restaurant here in LA, but it's kinda expensive for me 🥲
Me too. As a Chinese American, I'm simultaneously repulsed yet deeply fascinated by his restaurants. It was such a different frame for how Chinese cuisine is presented and experienced in the West, when true Chinese old old money mingled with the West from Chinese high culture.
The CCP has destroyed China. He's from that long line of Peking tradition that is gone forever.
Peking opera is still live and well. It is the evil demonic white devils who want to destroy China and turn China into another pathetic vassal state like Japan and South Korea.
if so then the US wouldnt see China as quote "the biggest threat"
The irnoic thing about the Mr. Chow restruant is that Chinese people don't dine in there becuase it is not authentic enough. Still, I personally respect this establisment, and I have good dinning expereince in Mr. Chow Tribeca and Mr. Chow Miami.
I have noticed that any cuisine exported to other cultures is never quite the same as the original.
Doesn’t really matter tho does it. What an interesting guy. Will definitely watch this.
Well that and it's outrageously expensive with much smaller portions for the same food you get from PF Changs, located in cities where restaurants serving both authentic Chinese and elevated versions of Chinese American food at a lower price point are abundant and accessible to non-Chinese foodies. However, I appreciate his restaurants hark back to the time when the above wasn't true, and that his restaurants continue to prove that Western consumers will pay the same fees for Chinese food they will for upscale Italian and French restaurants if it is presented the same way and not as "cheap."
well, he's not trying to be authentic... he's aka "Mr. Chow." He "is"n't Mr. Chow.
Is there a Mrs. Chow?
He's very good at convincing people that his paintings are art.
Beauty in art or life is in the eye of the beholder. Just like when you look into the mirror, and fancy yourself to be handsome.
I think his paintings are amazing. 🤷♂️
He's very good at convincing people that his paintings are not art.
I know art is subjective, I took a huge dump, and look, it could be art.
1:22
1:43
IMMigRAnts neeD to asSImiLAte and IntEGrate! Mr Chow. assimilates and integrates....still gets told to go home.
Art on canvas with value or not, doesn't reply on the art itself... its relative to whether it belongs to the street or in the Gallery.... HENCE,... paint splatter can also worth millions...
the emperors new clothes are beautiful
I LOVE COCAI.... wait
I dont know!
I don't like or respect what China currently is, but I can appreciate people like Mr. Chow.
What's wrong? China isn't constantly lying through their teeth and rambling about human right? China doesn't have elections electing imbeciles like Trump or Biden? Or perhaps China is simply not bowing their heads to the white men?
Where are you from?
So proud he married whites
That's painting? Looks like something I painted in the toilet-bowl after one too many burritos.
This isn't art, it's "economics" masquerading as "art"
he looks like an anglo saxon
That fake art is absolutely horrendous 😭😂😭😂
so he just splashes paint randomly and sell them in millions?
Be famous and they will give you tremendous applause when you are actually pooping
The problem with Hollywood is that they think everything in their locale is of the utmost interest to the rest of the world. How did this get made?
Lost me at the egg
Did he invented the Chicken dish? 😅
Seems like a successful restauranteur making pedestrian art.
That art is Middle-Class Aspirational mediocrity.
Where is Tina?
she's dead
Oh gosh..really..?
@@nathanieldrake6658 look up her wiki and it'll tell you what happened
Why are UA-cam videos I watched a year ago showing up as a tv show max? Get help
Yes Yes. Obviously he adopted American liberal pretentiousness very well. But the restaurants are so good.
Am I supposed to be impressed by the garbage they are so impressed by?
Oh no another post modern "art" "painting". Fugly thats what.
But the food? Heaven sent! Price? Not for normies like me. I was a plus 1. 😢
I thought this was a mockumentary
Is that Harvey Weinstein at 1:57?
"art" yeah ok... seems like at the this point i could just take a dump on the ground, frame it and call it art lol
"I could do that!" "Yeah, but you didn't."
@@pjforde1978 One thing one can't do for sure is make abstract expressionism relevant again in 2023. Mr Chow seems like a successful businessman with a hobby. While he is surely an interesting character, focusing on his art feels like a PR move, not a serious take for a documentary.
@@juliencroyal6050 now that you’ve said it, I guess it must be true.
He looks ridiculous
So like, 98% victim?
@@alextan6487 Trump? Huh
@@alextan6487can't stop thinking about Trump? Get help buddy
So like 98% still blind to racism?
Thats not art.