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It has been two and a half years since we had a challenger from Kyushu<\/a>. The challenger is one of the top French chefs in Kyushu. He runs his own French restaurant, which he opened at only 26 years of age. He recently opened a location at a department store.<\/p>\n It has the commercial with Ninety-nine<\/a> at the beach and the cute younger sister and an Ichiro commercial.<\/p>\n For some reason, the chairman starts laughing as soon as he says Allez Cuisine.<\/p>\n Sakai is in Kitchen Stadium to watch the battle today. I\u2019m pretty sure that the Iron Chefs who were not doing battle that day were not usually in Kitchen Stadium to watch. Perhaps he was there to tape another episode later. The challenger has some guests as well. We see his wife, son, and daughter watching from the royal box.<\/p>\n Nakamura\u2019s side seemed to make a major mistake by not pushing the switch on the rice cooker to turn it on until 15 minutes remained in the battle. Did they catch their mistake in time? Near the end of the battle, Nakamura tells Ohta that the rice should be ok, but it was a close call. I think it ended up not being ready, but I\u2019m not positive.<\/p>\n Both sides have the ice cream makers running. The challenger seems to be having some trouble turning his off so he can get the ice cream out.<\/p>\n