This Week’s Film: Mano Po
Cuisine: Philippine

In five years of watching and reviewing Asian films for Chopstick Cinema, I’ve always loved the ones from the Philippines. This week’s film, the epic Mano Po, will undoubtedly be no exception.

Here is the NetFlix synopsis:

“This sweeping tale of a Chinese-Filipino family’s search for identity and place in Philippine history won praise from critics — and also spawned two sequels. During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, a young Chinese trader, Fong Muan, marries the pretty Filipina Elisa. But life for their two children — and their children’s children — who are raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic traditions, proves to be anything but normal.”

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