# Zone Pro Site (总舖师)
**Zone Pro Site** (總舖師, also released as *Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast*) is a 2013 Taiwanese comedy film written and directed by Chen Yu-hsun (陳玉勳), centered on bandoh (辦桌), the traditional Taiwanese outdoor banquet catering culture.[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) It was Chen's first feature film in 16 years, following *Tropical Fish* (1995) and *Love Go Go* (1997), and it became one of the highest-grossing Taiwanese films of 2013.[2](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2013/08/27/2003570671)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title | 總舖師; international title *Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast*[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) |
| Director and writer | Chen Yu-hsun (陳玉勳); producers Lee Lieh and Yeh Jufeng[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) |
| Release | August 16, 2013 (Taiwan); 145 minutes; Mandarin and Taiwanese[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) |
| Budget | NT$70 million, with seven investors including Warner Bros[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) |
| Main cast | Lin Mei-hsiu, Yo Yang, Kimi Hsia, Wu Nian-Jen, Ko Yi-Cheng, King Jieh-Wen[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) |
| Taiwan box office | NT$310 million islandwide; NT$102,745,247 in Taipei from 436,539 admissions, sixth place in Taipei for 2013[3](https://stat.moc.gov.tw/Research_Download.aspx?idno=53) |
| Awards | Golden Horse nominations for Best Original Film Score and Best Original Film Song; 2014 Taipei Film Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actress; New York Asian Film Festival Audience Award[4](https://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/awards/nw/?r=en&search_regist_year=2013&serach_type=award) • [1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) |
## Spoilers
### Plot and setting
The film is set in the world of bandoh, the Taiwanese open-air banquet tradition in which a master chef, the 總舖師, runs the mobile kitchen for weddings, festivals, and celebrations such as a baby's one-month-old party.[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) More than 20 years before the story, three legendary master chefs dominated the trade across northern, central, and southern Taiwan: the Foolish Chef (憨人師, played by Wu Nian-Jen), the Ghost-Head Chef (鬼頭師, King Jieh-Wen), and the Fly Spirit Chef (蒼蠅師, Ko Yi-Cheng), whom locals honored as the "human, ghost, and god" trio.[5](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fctw37241519/) As times changed, the banquet trade declined and the three masters faded from the scene.[5](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fctw37241519/)
The Fly Spirit Chef wants to pass the family recipes and skills to his only daughter, Chan Hsiao-wan (詹小婉, played by Kimi Hsia), but she wants to be a star and runs away from the smoky kitchen life.[6](https://www.iq.com/play/%E7%B8%BD%E8%88%96%E5%B8%AB-2013-19rr1todf8?lang=en_us) In the version summarized for Western release, Wan is a failed actress fleeing debt collectors who returns to her hometown and enters a cooking contest with a NT$1 million prize to save her stepmother's restaurant.[7](https://www.filmlinc.org/films/zone-pro-site-the-moveable-feast/) The contest brings her up against the traitorous Ah Tsai Chef (阿財師), the mysterious Ghost-Head and Foolish chefs, and her father's own master, in a final showdown over the master's title.[5](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fctw37241519/) Yo Yang plays the wandering "culinary doctor" Ah Hai, a knife-carrying chef who rescues failing dishes and sings the film's comic theme song "三八阿花吹喇叭".[5](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fctw37241519/) [Lin Mei](https://www.edgepedia.org/lin-mei)-hsiu plays Ai Fong (澎風嫂), a role built around comic song-and-dance numbers.[8](https://www.wowscreen.com.tw/movie.php?movie_id=13438)
## Production
**A comeback project.** Chen Yu-hsun had left feature filmmaking after *Love Go Go* (1997), dissatisfied with the Taiwanese production environment, and spent the intervening years directing commercials, including the well-known "Chang Chun-ya" (張君雅小妹妹) noodle-snack girl spots, plus short films in the anthologies *Juliets* (2010) and *10+10* (2011).[9](https://www.playmusic.tw/movie_critics_detail.php?id=530&type=movie) Producers Lee Lieh and Yeh Jufeng persuaded him to return, and seven corporate investors, including Warner Bros, backed the NT$70 million production.[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) • [10](https://www.vogue.com.tw/feature/content-10761) Chen revised the script dozens of times over roughly half a year of writing.[5](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fctw37241519/)
**Locations.** The film shot in Tainan, the city best known for its food culture, beginning in January 2013, using more than 40 locations.[11](https://asc.tainan.gov.tw/index.php?id=9&modify=message) The climactic banquet contest was staged at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, which had never before lent its central plaza to a film crew; the Taipei Film Commission helped arrange the fee-free location. The sequence took 12 days (3 days set construction, 6 days shooting, 3 days strike), cost about NT$5 million of the production budget, and mobilized 300 to 400 extras with large electronic parade floats flanking the stage.[11](https://asc.tainan.gov.tw/index.php?id=9&modify=message) Another noted location was the Huashan access tunnel, a disused Taiwan Railways escape passage beneath Taipei, used as the Foolish Chef's underground home; the railway declined to open it to the public after the film's release.[12](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/227877)
## Box office
The film opened in Taiwan on August 16, 2013 and grossed NT$24 million in its first weekend, finishing second nationally behind *Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters* while showing day-over-day growth.[13](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E7%A5%A8%E6%88%BF%E8%BB%8A%E6%8B%9A-%E7%B8%BD%E8%88%96%E5%B8%AB-%E6%A9%AB%E6%8E%83%E5%85%A8%E5%8F%B0-%E6%B3%A2%E8%A5%BF%E5%82%91%E5%85%8B%E6%A3%AE-%E9%A9%9A%E9%9A%AA%E5%A5%AA%E5%86%A0-160336048.html) It then held the Taipei weekend box office crown for three consecutive weeks and passed NT$161 million islandwide by early September.[14](https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/1795108) • [15](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E7%A5%A8%E6%88%BF%E8%BB%8A%E6%8B%9A-%E7%B8%BD%E8%88%96%E5%B8%AB-%E7%A9%A9%E5%9D%90%E5%86%A0%E8%BB%8D-%E7%A5%A8%E6%88%BF%E5%8B%87%E7%A0%B41.61%E5%84%84-190052649.html) By September 8 it had earned NT$160 million (US$5.3 million).[16](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/09/08/2003571640) Final figures were NT$310 million islandwide, and in Taipei NT$102,745,247 from 436,539 admissions, ranking sixth among all films in Taipei for 2013 and making it the year's second-highest-grossing Taiwanese film after *David Loman* (大尾鱸鰻).[3](https://stat.moc.gov.tw/Research_Download.aspx?idno=53) It was the only Taiwanese film of 2013 to hold the national number-one box office spot for four consecutive weeks.[17](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E6%80%BB%E9%93%BA%E5%B8%88/3614906) Overseas releases followed in Singapore (October 17, 2013) and Hong Kong (November 9, 2013).[18](https://incinemas.sg/article/critically-acclaimed-taiwan-comedy-to-release-in-singapore--1164) • [19](https://wmoov.com/movie/post/21704)
## Reception and awards
The film premiered internationally in the Open Cinema section of the 2013 Busan International Film Festival and screened at the Tokyo and Toronto Asian film festivals that year.[20](https://taiwancinema.bamid.gov.tw/Staff/PrintFrameContent?ContentUrl=12446) In 2014 it played the Culinary Cinema section of the [Berlin International Film Festival](https://www.edgepedia.org/berlin-international-film-festival) as its European premiere, won the Audience Award at the Food Film Festival Amsterdam and at the New York Asian Film Festival, and took the Best Film Award at the Asian Film Festival in Italy.[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) At the 50th Golden Horse Awards it received nominations for Best Original Film Score (Owen Wang) and Best Original Film Song ("Jin Ma Mo Un", written by Ma Nien-shien and performed by Lin Mei-hsiu).[4](https://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/awards/nw/?r=en&search_regist_year=2013&serach_type=award) The 2014 Taipei Film Awards gave it Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actress.[1](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/) Reviewers praised its blend of food, nostalgia, and humor; a Taipei Times review noted it drew rave reviews from both critics and audiences in its first week.[2](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2013/08/27/2003570671)
## Cultural impact
The film renewed popular interest in bandoh cuisine. Academic commentary on the film catalogs its featured banquet dishes, including stir-fried rice vermicelli, tomato with scrambled eggs, stuffed chicken (布袋雞), chicken-in-pig-belly soup (雞仔豬肚鱉), eel dishes, and the closing contest dish, 菜尾湯, a leftover-scrap soup that in traditional banquet culture was boiled down from the feast's remains and given as a gift to helpers.[21](https://www.csat.org.tw/userfiles/%E8%95%AD%E6%99%BA%E5%B8%86%EF%BC%BF%E6%AD%A3%E6%96%87%EF%BC%BF%E7%AC%91%E8%A3%A1%E8%97%8F%E5%88%80%E5%96%9C%E5%8A%87%E7%89%87.pdf) Tourism followed the film: Jhongsiao Street in Tainan's West Central District, where much of the film was shot, received up to 2,000 tourists on peak days after the August 16 premiere, along with a surge in property sales, and the Tainan city government printed a film-location guide map.[16](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/09/08/2003571640) • [22](https://nhuir.nhu.edu.tw/retrieve/20317/102NHU00720009-001.pdf) The film has since been studied as a leading example of the post-2008 wave of Taiwanese films built on local food and folk culture, alongside *Night Market Hero* and other titles.[23](https://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id%3D%22104NCHU5625004%22.&searchmode=basic) It remains available on streaming platforms including Netflix, iQIYI, and LiTV depending on region.[24](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/zone-pro-site)
## References
1. [Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast (總舖師：移動大廚), ABLAZE IMAGE / 光在影像](https://ablazeimage.com/zone-pro-site-info/)
2. [Why so serious, Taipei Times (August 27, 2013)](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2013/08/27/2003570671)
3. [第一章 電影產業調查, Ministry of Culture statistical research](https://stat.moc.gov.tw/Research_Download.aspx?idno=53)
4. [2013 Golden Horse Awards results, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival](https://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/awards/nw/?r=en&search_regist_year=2013&serach_type=award)
5. [總舖師 Zone Pro Site, @movies 開眼電影網](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fctw37241519/)
6. [總舖師 (2013), iQIYI](https://www.iq.com/play/%E7%B8%BD%E8%88%96%E5%B8%AB-2013-19rr1todf8?lang=en_us)
7. [Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast, Film Society of Lincoln Center](https://www.filmlinc.org/films/zone-pro-site-the-moveable-feast/)
8. [總舖師 Zone Pro Site, WOW!SCREEN 電影雜誌](https://www.wowscreen.com.tw/movie.php?movie_id=13438)
9. [總舖師 影評, PlayMusic音樂網](https://www.playmusic.tw/movie_critics_detail.php?id=530&type=movie)
10. [喜劇陳玉勳復出《總舖師》, Vogue Taiwan](https://www.vogue.com.tw/feature/content-10761)
11. [『總舖師』協拍記錄, 臺南市政府影視支援中心](https://asc.tainan.gov.tw/index.php?id=9&modify=message)
12. [「總舖師」秘密鐵道 詢問高不開放難追星, TVBS News](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/227877)
13. [票房車拚／《總舖師》橫掃全台, Yahoo奇摩新聞](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E7%A5%A8%E6%88%BF%E8%BB%8A%E6%8B%9A-%E7%B8%BD%E8%88%96%E5%B8%AB-%E6%A9%AB%E6%8E%83%E5%85%A8%E5%8F%B0-%E6%B3%A2%E8%A5%BF%E5%82%91%E5%85%8B%E6%A3%AE-%E9%A9%9A%E9%9A%AA%E5%A5%AA%E5%86%A0-160336048.html)
14. [台北周末電影票房(9/6-9/8) 總舖師3周連莊, 鉅亨網](https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/1795108)
15. [票房車拚／《總舖師》穩坐冠軍 票房勇破1.61億, Yahoo奇摩新聞](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E7%A5%A8%E6%88%BF%E8%BB%8A%E6%8B%9A-%E7%B8%BD%E8%88%96%E5%B8%AB-%E7%A9%A9%E5%9D%90%E5%86%A0%E8%BB%8D-%E7%A5%A8%E6%88%BF%E5%8B%87%E7%A0%B41.61%E5%84%84-190052649.html)
16. [Film draws hordes of tourists to Tainan street, Taipei Times (September 8, 2013)](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/09/08/2003571640)
17. [总铺师（2013年陈玉勋导演台湾本土电影）, 百度百科](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E6%80%BB%E9%93%BA%E5%B8%88/3614906)
18. [Critically-acclaimed Taiwan Comedy to Release in Singapore, InC Cinemas](https://incinemas.sg/article/critically-acclaimed-taiwan-comedy-to-release-in-singapore--1164)
19. [總舖師 香港電影資料, WMOOV](https://wmoov.com/movie/post/21704)
20. [陳玉勳, 台灣電影網 Taiwan Cinema](https://taiwancinema.bamid.gov.tw/Staff/PrintFrameContent?ContentUrl=12446)
21. [蕭智帆，〈笑裡藏刀喜劇片〉論文, 中華民國文化研究學會](https://www.csat.org.tw/userfiles/%E8%95%AD%E6%99%BA%E5%B8%86%EF%BC%BF%E6%AD%A3%E6%96%87%EF%BC%BF%E7%AC%91%E8%A3%A1%E8%97%8F%E5%88%80%E5%96%9C%E5%8A%87%E7%89%87.pdf)
22. [第二章 文獻探討, 南華大學學位論文](https://nhuir.nhu.edu.tw/retrieve/20317/102NHU00720009-001.pdf)
23. [台灣電影的飲食與庶民文化研究, 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統](https://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id%3D%22104NCHU5625004%22.&searchmode=basic)
24. [Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast streaming, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/zone-pro-site)
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