It’s time for another pre-Food Network episode for your viewing pleasure.
The challenger, Kiyoshi Miyashiro, is the owner/chef at a restaurant known as a favorite of Japanese author Shusaku Endo. He trained in France for five years before returning to Japan. He was unhappy with the direction of French cuisine in Japan, so he opened his own restaurant, K-M. (Click Here, Here, or Here to see pictures and information about K-M. The last two links are in Japanese.) Surprisingly, the challenger chooses to take on Iron Chef Japanese Nakamura, who is riding a 4 battle winning streak into Kitchen Stadium. Enjoy. (Want to make your own Beef Tongue dishes? Go here for some recipes.)
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 some 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: 448s – Beef Tongue – Nakamura vs. Miyashiro (subbed)
This is the last pre-Food Network subtitled episode from the first batch. I hope to have another announcement soon, though. 🙂
And while looking for a link to the challenger’s restaurant, I found two incredible blog posts that you must read: Allez Cuisiner! and My Dinner with Matsuo-san.
UPDATE 12/4: I know there is a problem with the zipped VOB file. I am working on getting a working version uploaded as soon as possible. I’m sorry everybody. It has been fixed and it should work now. Thanks for being patient.