This week in Iron Chef History, June 14 – June 20:
- 223 (6/17/1994) – Sea Urchin – Sakai vs. Yuji Wakiya
- 324 (6/16/1995) – Blue Crab – Michiba vs. Zeng Mingxing
- 425 (6/14/1996) – Pomfret – Nakamura vs. Son Kangi (This battle did not air on Food Network. We don’t have a copy of it.)
- 523OA (6/20/1997) – Amberjack – Sakai vs. Kunio Sato (This battle did not air on Food Network. We DO have a copy of it.) 🙂
- 621 (6/19/1998) – New Potato – Chen vs. Kentaro
- 722 (6/18/1999) – Sushi – Morimoto vs. Keiji Nakazawa
- 722OA (6/18/1999) – Original Japanese language version of episode 722 (Sushi)
TWICH Notes: The Sea Urchin battle sees Sakai battling a chef who was eventually selected to be an Iron Chef. (He never did battle as an Iron Chef.) Michiba takes on an apprentice of the “Mother of Chinese cooking in Japan.” Our ICC Exclusives episode this week features a chef from the Izu Peninsula. New Potato sees the return of the Kobayashi family. Can the son be half as entertaining as his mother was? Finally this week, we have the first official Sushi battle in Kitchen Stadium. Remember that Morimoto started his career as a sushi chef. Does he still have what it takes to win a sushi battle?
New in the database this week: 523OA, 722OA
See you next week.