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The Olympic Motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger). The Summer Olympics start this weekend in Beijing, China. While some of the world’s greatest athletes will be gathering in the Beijing Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremonies, we will welcome some of the world’s greatest chefs into Kitchen Stadium. The theme this week is China. Of course, all of the battles this week feature a Chinese ingredient, a Chinese challenger, and/or Iron Chef Chinese Chen Kenichi.
We also would like to add two Iron Chef Chen videos to Beyond Kitchen Stadium.
Both of the BKS videos are in Japanese with no subtitles.
The following episodes may be found by searching our video database: 314, 641, 712
New in the database this week: 314, 641, 712
This is the first edition of our Iron Chef Collection Exclusives Episodes of the Month. Of course, this is where we present to you Iron Chef episodes that did not air on Food Network. Today, we present our Episodes of the Month for July. (Yeah. I know it’s already August. Sue me. 🙂 ) Thank you to everyone who voted in our poll this month. A new poll will go up near the middle of the month. And without further ado, we present the winners.
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.
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that we had acquired two episodes that had not aired on Food Network. The first of those to be posted was the Japan Cup 2002. This week, we present the second of those exclusive episodes, the Millennium Cup.
The Millennium Cup was the first Iron Chef special produced after the final Kitchen Stadium battle at the end of the King of Iron Chefs tournament. It originally aired on January 5, 2000, a mere 3 months after the final Kitchen Stadium battle.
The first battle pits Iron Chef Chinese Chen Kenichi against Zhao Ren Liang with abalone as the theme ingredient. The second battle finds Iron Chef Japanese Rokusaburo Michiba going against Dominique Bouchet in a kobe beef confront. All four chefs are also competing to have one of their dishes named the “Millennium Dish.”
This week, we present an episode that has been among the most sought after for the Iron Chef Collection. It is an episode that did not air on Food Network. Until very recently, we had never been able to find anything more than a few reviews and a few pictures from this special that aired in Japan on January 2, 2002. It is the final Iron Chef special that aired in Japan. We are very proud to present to you the Iron Chef Japan Cup 2002.
We recently were able to acquire this episode directly from Japan. As such, this video is the complete broadcast as it originally aired on Fuji TV in Japan, including all commercials and breaks. We thought it might be interesting to experience what it was like to watch an episode of Iron Chef exactly as you would have seen it in Japan. (We may remove the commercials and re-upload some day if enough people request a version like that.) This episode is in Japanese with no subtitles. (Go here for a very good English language description/play-by-play of this episode. Be careful if you do not want to know the winners yet because he does have the results included.)
Because of this episode’s 2 hour length, I split the episode into two one-hour files. Enjoy this never before seen episode. (And be on the lookout for another special ICC exclusive in the next few weeks.)
You can find the following episodes in the Specials category of the video database: 1001a, 1001b
New in the video database this week: 1001a, 1001b
Special note regarding our videos: If you want to put them up on bittorrent trackers or other video sites, could you at least wait until they have been up for a week or two and even then, please ask for permission. We will likely have no problem with you sharing them, but in this case, the episode was up on torrent sites less than two days after we presented it. I realize that the URL is in this most recent video (and will be in all future exclusive episodes), so people can find us if they want more. We went to great effort and some expense to acquire these episodes. Please respect that. –Keith
Our slight variation to the famous rhyme is the clue to this week’s Episodes of the Week theme. While usually called “roe,” the edible portion of this sea creature is in fact not roe. (I’ll let you read the explanation of what it really is for yourselves.) Anyway, the theme for this week’s Episodes of the Week is Sea Urchin, which in Japanese is “Uni.”
The following episodes may be found in our file database: 223, 331, 725
New in the file database this week: 223, 331, 725