In the beginning of the film, Ling Ling-Fat fails to apprehend four ugly swordsmen who are trespassing in the Forbidden City. He also practices gynaecology, and spends time with his loving wife (Carina Lau). Instead of studying martial arts like his fellow bodyguards, he devotes his time to making practical yet often mundane and/or cumbersome inventions, such as cannons fired from the mouth, helicopter blades, and magnets. Ling Ling-Fat's own name also doubles as a Cantonese wordplay on the code number '008', a reference to James Bond, whose number was 007 (see From Beijing with Love). Ling Ling-Fat (Stephen Chow) is one of the Chinese Emperor's four elite personal bodyguards, the 'Baolong clan' (保龍一族) - whose names form the Cantonese Chinese New Year's greeting: 'Kung hei fat choi' (恭喜發財).
