It’s time for another pre-Food Network episode for your viewing pleasure.
The challenger, Shinsuke Shimada, is a famous comedian in Japan. He is also known to be one of the best celebrity chefs in Japan. At the age of 21, he began his show business career as part of a manzai duo. Despite appearing on as many as 11 television shows a week, he still makes time to cook at least once per day.
Shimada is currently the host of the popular Japanese television show Quiz Hexagon II. (Watch full episodes of Quiz Hexagon II on Veoh.) Unfortunately, there are two incidents in the last five years which indicate that Shimada may have problems controlling his temper. First, he attacked a female staffer at his management agency. And as recently as October 2008, he was seen confronting some young comedians during a live television show. Although he has had these problems in the past, he is still a highly sought after host in Japan.
What makes this episode a rare and special treat for current Iron Chef fans is that it comes from the time before Iron Chef was aired on Food Network. It was recorded from one of the local stations broadcasting the show. (In fact, it still has the local commercials intact.) It is in Japanese WITH English subtitles. I know you will enjoy being able to experience this rare episode not shown in North America in over 10 years.
There are two options for viewing this episode. The pop-up player will use the usual divx encoded file. This smaller, lower quality file can also be downloaded directly using the “Download File” option. Also in the download menu this time is an option to download a higher quality VOB file (approx. 1.3GB). (You can play the vob file in VLC Player)
New in the video database this week: 436s – Taisho Prawn Battle – Chen vs. Shimada (subbed)