Comments on: Why Japan Loves Iron Chef

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:36:00 +0000

Yes, the show is being revived. I haven’t read any information about changes in the format or the regular “cast” of chairman, announcers and judges. However, don’t be too surprised if there is a Korean-cuisine tetsujin…

A lot has changed in the sub-cosmos of haute cuisine in the last thirteen years. Maybe now we’ll be able to see live molecular gastronomy during culinary battle. RnT was always on, or near the cusp of emerging culinary techniques, and “molecular” ones would be a spectacular way to develop the new show and recertify the “credentials” of the original brand.

By: shawn

shawn — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:13:00 +0000

I still remember how Bobby Flay got to be known as the American idiot who disrespected Kitchen Stadium, the Japanese people and irritated the living Hell out of Chen Kinichi–twice by his table “dance”! lol

By: shawn

shawn — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 01:55:00 +0000

Which I don’t get why they do that because Morimoto speaks English. He’s lived in California since the 90′s and I heard him speak, its not perfect but he can easily communicate like a native. I think it might just be for the “ambiance” of the show, I guess.

By: shawn

shawn — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 01:53:00 +0000

I absolutely LOVE Iron Chef! I happened upon it, thumbing thru my hundreds of useless cable channels one Sunday and stayed on it because nothing was on and it seemed vaguely interesting. 5 minutes in, I was hooked! I miss that show so much! What I think is amazing is how popular it became with us Americans! We are a country of phobics, where the majority think that if you look different or can’t speak English why bother talking (which says something in itself but that’s another topic). I remember hearing people on the bus saying, “hey, have you seen that foreign cook show on that food cable channel? Oh man, you gotta watch it!” The pageantry the flair, the whole sophistication of the show was really something to behold, especially when you are hearing the almost comical translators speaking the dialogs of the show! LOL! I was so intrigued by hearing the Japanese people speaking, I sometimes wished the translators would shut up and let the show just go on with them just speaking Japanese, even if I had no idea what they were saying! Hahahahaha! I had never heard Japanese before and my interest in learning started peaking from that moment on. Iron Chef America is not as good; once you see the original, you can’t think of anything else! Especially since it seems every chef, every show, seems to want to make some freaky and non edible ice cream with that ice cream maker on the show. Why??? Some chef made a fish ice cream and one of the judges refused to try it. LOL

By: Haefennasiel

Haefennasiel — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:38:00 +0000

Ah yes, Chairman Kaga – wearer of clothes that would make Liberace jealous! =D

By: koichi

koichi — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:06:00 +0000

WHAT? WAIT? NEW EPISODES???? If so, you made my year D: