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I was watching Iron Chef Japan on Fine Living Network, and I was thinking, Which chef was the best. to me. Iron Chef Japan, is the quintessential cooking show in Japan. Where the Kongs of the cooking worlds come together and battle it out over a specific ingredient. Apart from its American Cousin, the chefs have to complete all courses w/in the 1 hour time period. They have to plate for all Judges, not just one plate, all plates for all judges. Pretty damn amazing. I used to watch these show in its hey day 15 years ago (1993-1999, and 2001 special ) when it was live on television, in the original Japanese. That was Way Awesome. The show now on Fine Living Network is Dubbed in English, and it is quite annoying. They should have saved some money, and went with sub-titles. It makes for better television, because now the TV home Audience has to read.
The American Version of the show is quite Lame. The Chairman is said to be the Nephew of the original Chairman in Japan, but I really don’t think that Mark Dacascos is related to Chairman Takeshi Kaga in any way. The guy played Crying Freeman for geez sake. (not that crying freeman is bad, I am actually a big fan the Whole Crying Freeman Series). I can say the over zealous Alton Brown as the Announcer is quite funny at times though. but their ways of doing things is not all great at times. noting like the original.
Here are some pics of the Iron Chefs in Japan
Iron Chef Chinese: Chen Kenichi
Iron Chef Italian: Masahiko Kobe
Iron Chef Japanese: Rokusaburo Michiba
Iron Chef Japanese: Masaharu Morimoto
Iron Chef French: Hiroyuki Sakai
all the Iron Chefs
image from Wikipedia
here is the english dubbed version
Funny Iron Chef Nissan Commercial (In Japanese)
Millennium Cup Special (Original Japanese, sorry its just a clip)
