{"id":84,"date":"2008-07-22T21:02:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.info\/wordpress\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-07-23T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T14:14:12","slug":"episodes-of-the-week-simply-sakai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Episodes of the Week &#8211; Simply Sakai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai was crowned the King of Iron Chefs in the final Kitchen Stadium battle. When he began, he thought his time on the the show was going to be only six months. He ended up being a part of Iron Chef for 6 years. This week, we bring three of Iron Chef Sakai&#8217;s memorable battles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxtail\" target=\"_blank\">Oxtail<\/a> (710) &#8211; Sakai vs. Hosogai<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Udon\" target=\"_blank\">Udon<\/a> (713) &#8211; Sakai vs. Komori<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kagoshima-kankou.com\/for\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Pork<\/a> (723) &#8211; Sakai vs. Makio &#8211; This episode is well known because of Sakai&#8217;s trip to his home prefecture before the battle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>This also seems like a good week to add a relatively unknown Sakai video to Beyond Kitchen Stadium. It comes from the Canadian stop-motion animation show <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wrong_Coast#Your_Stalker_or_Mine.3F\" target=\"_blank\">The Wrong Coast<\/a>. In this spoof of the movie Seabiscuit, Sakai is the challenger in the race to create the best seafood based soup.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The following episodes may be found in the video database: <a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=197\" target=\"_blank\">710<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=198\" target=\"_blank\">713<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=199\" target=\"_blank\">723<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=196\" target=\"_blank\">BKS-Seabisque<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>New in the database this week: 710, 713, 723, BKS-Seabisque<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai was crowned the King of Iron Chefs in the final Kitchen Stadium battle. When he began, he thought his time on the the show was going to be only six months. He ended up being a part of Iron Chef for 6 years. This week, we bring three of Iron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}