“Tomato Kitchen” is a social fable. The tomato-character can be any one of us. As a Chinese person who lives and works in the US, the filmmaker has seen the exclusion and suppression of new immigrants by old immigrants, including women who have been abducted and sold to the countryside becoming accomplices and abducting and selling women themselves. “Tomato Kitchen” is telling a similar story. An accident interrupts Lee’s dinner with his colleagues. The dark truth of the Tomato Kitchen along with Lee’s hidden past are revealed by this unexpected incident.