
Miss Wonton begins with the arrival of a young Chinese immigrant, Ah Na (Amy Ting), to her new place of work, the Buddha's Happiness in New York. At Buddha's Happiness, she meets other immigrant workersand hears their idiosyncratic dreams of the future.... (Full plot summary below)
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Miss Wonton begins with the arrival of a young Chinese immigrant, Ah Na (Amy Ting), to her new place of work, the Buddha's Happiness in New York. At Buddha's Happiness, she meets other immigrant workersand hears their idiosyncratic dreams of the future.
Leave your thoughts about Miss Wonton.
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe central character isn't complex enough to hold our interest. |
| New York ObserverAndrew SarrisCall it magic realism or surrealism, but Miss Wonton floats beyond reality with a certain degree of wit and dignity. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxMeng's film, which uses a fairly sophisticated flashback structure to reveal the secrets of Ah Na's past in China, touches on a number of very serious subjects: the business of illegal immigration, the exploitation of "aliens" and the treatment of people with AIDS in China. But it's also filled with touches of humor. |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsEarnestness is the primary appeal of Meng Ong's clumsy melodrama. |
| VarietyDavid RooneyCluttered, unfocused script attempts too much. |
| New York PostLou LumenickA baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise. |
| The New York TimesDana StevensThe director has fallen into the common first-timer's trap of biting off more than he can chew, stitching together an unwieldy, disorganized story out of subplots and flashbacks, without paying enough attention to the basic requirements of character and narrative. |
| Village VoiceEd ParkAs genre comeuppance, this might have been nasty fun, but the movie barely makes sense, with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks. |
| User ReviewIngrid GSimple story of a Chinese girl's attempt to find the American Dream. Some subtle twists and turns. Worth a watch. |