Kimmel
Actor Simu Liu‘s career has been exploding since he landed the title role of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in 2021, taking him from a scrappy actor getting by on small parts to Hollywood’s A-List.
In true Hollywood A-Lister style he’s already racking up wild partying stories only in this instance, it was his unsuspecting ‘working class immigrant’ parents form China doing the partying without any knowledge of what was happening to them.
He recently shared this story on Kimmel. For context, Simu Liu was talking about how he came to be named Chief Content Officer of MìLà, an online dumpling retailer who specializes in shipping frozen soup dumplings (the best dumplings). His story can be told two ways, the PG way where his mother encouraged him to join the company or he can tell the full story. In the latter, his parents were housesitting for him, starting, found his edibles and mushrooms, ate those, had no idea what happened, and I won’t ruin the story for you so here goes:
First off, he’s an incredible story teller. From start to finish I was hooked. But the well planned out punchline really is perfection.
Getting home to find his car was totaled and Simu Liu’s parents had eaten all of his edibles (he specifically “my drugs are gone”), then realizing his parents had no clue what hallucinogenics are at all, it’s all incredible. We’re laughing at the situation and feeling deep sympathy for his parents who went through the ordeal without any clue what was happening to them.
At the end, one thing was clear for all parties involved. He absolutely had to get involved with the company that sent the dumplings. Who is anyone to say that it wasn’t a sign from above when those dumplings showed up at the right place at the right time?