Thanks for letting me put up my personal post on Monday. Here are some “new” original episodes for you.
Iron Chef 202 – The challenger is a Chinese cuisine chef from Hong Kong. He loves to cook on his super hot fire. (I thought I heard 60,000 kilocalories, but I don’t know exactly what that means. Someone feel free to enlighten me.) He has served Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan among others. Nice touch from the Chairman asking who he is going to battle in Chinese. It’s an all Chinese cuisine battle as he takes on Iron Chef Chinese Chen Kenichi.
Iron Chef 203 – I believe this is the first time we have an amateur cook rather than a professional chef as the challenger. (You will hear the chairman say “Shirouto” several times. It means novice/amateur.) He will take on Iron Chef Japanese Michiba in an egg battle. Apparently the challenger’s wife is happy with the theme. Ota reports that as soon as she heard it announced, she did the “guts pose” in the royal box. Will her confidence lead him to victory?
Iron Chef 204 – The challenger was a gymnast, then a professional boxer, and now a highly trained French Chef. (He is still in the news, serving up dishes with dirt at his restaurant. Yep, dirt.) Don’t worry; the theme is not top soil. It’s sea bream and Iron Chef Michiba will be looking to deliver the knockout blow. (I don’t know what Fukui is really saying, but you know his dubbed version would be breaking out every boxing pun in the book for this battle.)