Because he’s fluent in Mandarin and Fookien, Sparkle heartthrob Kimson Tan bagged a role in the Singapore-produced international movie #KingOfHawkers. He will start training for the film in early 2023.

After casting Korean actors on his previous projects “Won’t Go Home Tonight” and “Today,” Singaporean filmmaker Sun Liren is set to cast Kapuso heartthrob Kimson Tan in his next film with the working title “The Hawker King.”

The movie tells the story of a single mother returning to Hong Kong, inheriting her mother’s stall in a hawker center, and the business is booming. When a big Hong Kong consortium wants to buy it, the single mother realizes that the other party is her playboy ex-husband.

Kimson Tan will play Liu Jinsun, a gourmet peddler. He is impulsive, straightforward, speaks without thinking, often offends people, and is self-righteous. He and Chen Bei, the beautiful daughter of a single mother, are happy friends, and the two join forces to fight against the takeover of the big consortium.

Sun Liren said: “Although Kimson Tan is not a leading actor, he plays a very important role.” Kimson Tan was born in China and grew up in the Philippines. He speaks fluent Chinese, is 1.85 cm tall, and has a handsome appearance. Sun Liren said that at this stage it is inconvenient to reveal who will play the male and female protagonists.

Sun Liren believes that next year will be a very hot year for local food culture. He said: “Local food is sold overseas. For example, New York has local food. “King of Hawkers” is actually promoting local food.” “Little” by Situ Bi screenwriter, he has participated in the screenwriting of Feng Weizhong’s movie “The Best Guy”.

There are many food scenes in the film “Little”, and Sun Liren hired Lin Baoshun (John See), who had co-organized the movie gourmet private kitchen with him a while ago, and “moved” the delicious food on the screen to the table, as a food consultant. Celebrity chef Lin Baoshun won gold and silver medals in the food industry when he was young, and served as a food consultant for many movies, including “Crazy Rich Asians” starring Michelle Yeoh and others. In “Little”, he will bring more than 50 dishes of Lion City delicacies to the big screen, so that the audience will be familiarized with Singaporean delicacies.

Liren teamed up with Changxin Media to produce “The King of Hawkers” with a production cost of 1.8 million yuan. It is expected to start filming locally in March or April next year. Sun Liren said: “It is expected to be released at the end of next year or during the Lunar New Year in 2024.”