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The theme ingredients this week had an advantage over the chefs in Kitchen Stadium. Unfortunately for them, the fact that they had more arms than their human adversaries meant little once the Gong of Fate sounded. The theme for the Episodes of the Week this week is armed sea creatures.
My Mayuko Takata love continues with yet another addition to Beyond Kitchen Stadium featuring my favorite Iron Chef judge of all time. This video is an episode of Mago Mago Arashi that originally aired in Japan on 6/2/2007.
This episode features two members of the Japanese singing group Arashi trying to take vegetables and cook them in such a way that a pair of picky eater children will eat them. Their guest is Mayuko Takata. The parents of the children tell the guys that their kids don’t like carrots, peppers, or eggplant. Their challenge is to make dishes with those ingredients that the kids will eat and enjoy. Takata offers some cooking tips to the boys, but her biggest contribution is showing off her mothering skills and getting the crying little girl to take a nap. (And we get to see a side of Takata we never saw on Iron Chef when the boys keep trying to use the blender when the girls are sleeping. I wouldn’t mess with her if I were there.)
This video is in Japanese with no subtitles, but it is still a fun watch.
This video, along with many others, may be found in our Beyond Kitchen Stadium section.
A recently aired episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations on the Travel Channel had Mr. Bourdain traveling to Japan. Several segments of the show featured Bourdain with Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto as his guide.
I believe the entire episode is available for purchase in the iTunes music store, but I’m not positive.
The newest ICC Exclusives post will be up before the end of the weekend.
Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai was crowned the King of Iron Chefs in the final Kitchen Stadium battle. When he began, he thought his time on the the show was going to be only six months. He ended up being a part of Iron Chef for 6 years. This week, we bring three of Iron Chef Sakai’s memorable battles.
It’s time for another Mayuko Takata video to join our Beyond Kitchen Stadium collection. Of course, you probably already know that Takata-san is my favorite Iron Chef judge. I am happy to present this episode of Arashi no Shukudai-kun where she was the guest. (This is a TV show hosted by Arashi, a popular Japanese singing group.)
I have to admit that I find it a little funny that, even when I find Mayuko on a show other than Iron Chef, we still get to watch her eating. She enjoys different types of sushi with the members of Arashi. Other segments include Mayuko getting to slap an Arashi member (kind of) and failing miserably at the Kendama. She also talks briefly about her new son, born about 5 months before this show originally aired in January 2007. This show is in Japanese with English subtitles.
NOTE: I tried to get permission from the person who subtitled this video to post it, but I did not receive any response. If this is your video and you want it removed, contact us.
This video, along with many others, is available in our Beyond Kitchen Stadium section.
I’m sure every one who has watched more than a few episodes of Iron Chef has seen Mayuko Takata. (Click here for her Japanese page with a recent picture.) She was a frequent guest and judge on the program. I will admit that she has always been one of my favorite judges. (If for no other reason than I think she’s beautiful.) Anyway, I had never been able to find any of her other programs, until now. Be prepared to see Mayuko Takata in a setting very different from Kitchen Stadium.
This addition to Beyond Kitchen Stadium is the 7th episode of the Japanese drama Keizoku (aka Unsolved Cases), in which Mayuko Takata is a guest star. In this episode (O.A. 2/19/1999), Takata plays the young director of an art gallery where her father was murdered 6 years ago. Will the detectives of the unsolved cases unit be able to solve the mystery? (This episode is in Japanese, with English subtitles. And while these pictures are in black and white, the episode is in color.)
This video, along with all of our Beyond Kitchen Stadium videos, can be found in our video database.
I will have a few more Mayuko Takata videos to add in the weeks ahead. Do you have a favorite guest or judge that you have also seen on other programs? Let me know where you saw them, and we’ll do our best to track down the video. And as always, if you have any video or audio of a guest, judge, challenger, or other regular cast member, please let us know and we’ll post it for everyone to see.