1. What is the name of Wong Kar-wai’s film in which Maggie Cheung regularly buys noodles for dinner, in a crowded noodle shop down some narrow stairs?

2. In a 2008 film directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, Abby, a young American woman played by Brittany Murphy, begs a Japanese chef to teach her to cook a specific dish. Which dish?

What is the title of the movie this still was taken from?

What is the name of the Japanese actor/director who in the film Symbol (Shinboru, 2009) is locked up in an awkward white room and is served sushi without soy sauce?

In this Korean film a man is stranded on an uninhabited island. He survives by catching fish, but then finds un unopened seasoning packet for instant noodles with black bean sauce. He decides to try to make the missing noodles himself. What is the film’s title?

6. In Kamome Diner (Kamome shokudô, 2006) by director Naoko Ogigami, a Japanese woman opens a diner in a European city. Which city?

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (San qiang pai an jing qi, Zhang Yimou, 2009) is a remake of which film?

For whom did the chef in The Chef of South Polar (Nankyoku ryôrinin, Shûichi Okita, 2009) just cook lobster?

A Boy and His Samurai (Chonmage purin, Yoshihiro Nakamura, 2010) features a time traveling samurai from the Edo period. It is claimed he is the creator of a classic Western dessert. Which dessert?

In Tampopo (Jûzô Itami, 1985) a choking old man is saved with the use of a vacuum cleaner – a well-tried method in these circumstances. What dish, causing a handful of deaths per year in Japan, did the man eat?

11. The man in the picture has not left his house in eleven years. Everything he needs is delivered. Every Saturday he orders pizza and the empty boxes end up on perfect piles in his perfectly organised house. What is the title of the film?

12. What is the title of the Oscar winning 2009 documentary that claims that, in Japan, annually 23.000 dolphins (unfit for consumption because of their high concentration of mercury) are secretly killed, after which their meat is sold as whale-meat?

In Nina’s Heavenly Delights (Pratibha Parmar, 2006), Shelley Conn returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father’s Indian restaurant The New Taj. And she enters ‘The Best of the West Curry Competition’. When preparing her lamb dish in the final – live broadcasted on Korma TV – tension reaches a climax. Why?

14. Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam, Wong Kar-wai, 1994) is set in Hong Kong. Its central location is a fast food counter. What is the dish that actor Tony Leung orders time and again?

When Min-sik Choi in Oldboy (Oldeuboi, Chan-wook Park, 2003) regains his freedom after having been kidnapped for 15 years, he enters a restaurant to eat a living octopus. What is the name of this Korean dish (that is usually cut in small pieces before eating to reduce choking hazard)?