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The third story segment of Wong's planned film "Three Stories About Food", inspired by the book "The Physiology of Taste" by the French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, and starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung playing different characters in the three stories. The first story segment was about a kidnapper and the person being kidnapped, and the food they ate, the second regarding a man and a woman, neighbors, whose spouses are having an affair, featuring the new food fads instant ramen noodles and electric rice cookers, the third about a fast food shop owner and his customers, featuring an analysis of the sensation of tasting, illustrating the erotic properties of dessert. This third segment was filmed first, then the second segment was filmed but became too long and ended up released as the feature Der Klang der Liebe (2000), and the first segment was never shot.

This 32 minute short film originally comprised a coda (an additional section at the end) in Wong's previous feature film, Der Klang der Liebe (2000), which was edited out before the theatrical release. The scenes take place 10 years later when the main characters meet again. It was screened as a separate short film only once at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The only released material are stills found in the book The Cinema Of Wong Kar-Wai and the 2003 Cannes Master Class Pamphlet. For his next feature film, Wong refilmed the coda/short and added to it to make a sequel 2046 - Der ultimative Liebesfilm (2004).