Iron Chef Sakai always got the weirdest challengers! In this case the feckless apprentice of Japan’s most celebrated French Chef, Noboru Inoue. The best (or perhaps least silly) of these was Chen’s three-episode war with Yokohama’s Hei Chin Rou Restaurant, culminating in this intense and wildly entertaining boss fight with Master Chef Xie. Iron Chef Japan had many “War” story lines where a restaurant or faction of cooks would target a specific Iron Chef and send challenger after challenger at them until their honor had been regained, or something. If I could choose just one battle to be on the tasting panel, this would be it.
The result is a perfect episode: Tense, exciting, dramatic, funny and more than a little insane. Chen, rising to meet this massive challenge, cranks the enthusiasm up to eleven. Cui YufenĬui, a “National Treasure” trained in Peking-style Chinese cuisine walks into Kitchen Stadium, challenges poor ‘ol Chen and schools all of Japan in what real Chinese cooking looks/tastes like. Big love to everyone uploading nostalgic goodness!Ĭhinese Cabbage Battle – Chen Vs. If you’re digging ‘em check out the rest of the dubbed episodes available on Xacred, CZY and AllukaNanika’s YouTube feeds. Episodes that I’ve watched again and again, sitting at my kitchen table prepping for dinner. If you’re looking for a proper “Top” five list with statistics and pie charts showing the cultural impact of Kaga’s hairpiece, you’ll have to look elsewhere. I’ve pulled only from the fraction of episodes dubbed for Food Network in English and have used no metric more sophisticated than my own enjoyment. This list is by no means comprehensive or authoritative.
While putting together last week’s insane love letter to Iron Chef I reviewed quite a few episodes on YouTube and thought I’d share my top five with the internet at large.
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