"Eat Drink Man Woman" is a food based, Taiwanese movie depicting a widowed master chef and his daughters coping with the passage of time and its effect on their individual and collective lives. It was directed by Ang Lee and filmed in 1994, when it was nominated for an Oscar. It is a good movie, and its best feature is the food cooked by the father, both at work and in his home, even when cooking for himself only.
We watched the movie on On Demand last night, pretty much by chance. It was not a movie we remembered at all.
But last summer, in Vienna, we ate at a very upscale Italian/Continental restuarant called Fabio's. It's motto, on the menus, the match boxes and its website is "eat drink man woman". It baffled us then, and still does now. We do not know if it comes from the movie (would seem more appropriate for an oriental restaurant, if so), if the movie was named after Fabio's motto (doubtful), whether they both come from the same mysterious source, or whether this is just a phrase that everyone knows but us or a coincidence.
Fabio's is, as I said, an Italian restaurant in Vienna, but its motto is 'eat drink man woman', not 'ess trink Mann Frau' and note 'mange bibe Uomo Contessa' (or whatever it would be in Italian, clearly a language that I only know by instinct and intonation). The movie's original title is, we assume, in Chinese, although maybe it is in English as well, but written in Chinese pictographs.
What a mystery, yet to be solved.
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