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Bang a gong, we are on!
I loved this show. The exaggerated bullshit surrounding each episode was glorious.
Even the fact that they plagiarized the theme from the 1991 film "Backdraft" as the show's theme was classic.
Oh yeah, the "Backdraft" theme. The story is that one day a Japanese tourist was taking the Universal Studios tour, and when he saw a "Backdraft" exhibit, he asked why they were playing the "Iron Chef" theme.
I just looked up these old episodes on YouTube and apparently that theme has been stripped out of them and replaced with soulless BGM. Too bad.
FUKUI SAN
yes, anon sama?
From the kitchen floor, reporter Shinichiro Ohta, go!
whaddap filthy gaijin best chef coming through
thats not hiroyuki sakai
Morimoto king crab episode one of my favorites
WE A SAKAI BOARD MOTHERFRICKER
Best version of the show. Is there any other show that comes close so I can scratch the itch to watch more?
I felt like the newer American version was pretty alright in trying to match the tone of the original, but nothing really compares. Like only the Japanese can make a cooking competition fun and exciting with a bit of tongue in cheek epic over exaggeration. Whenever we Americans try to copy Japanese TV it either ends up way too serious or way too goofy.
american TV will never be fun because it always has to have that CIA brainwashing thrown in
The Netflix one?
The one that was on Food Network for a number of years hosted by Alton Brown. I only remember that one after the original short lived one on Fox that was a complete disaster.
holy frick i cannot stand Alton Brown and I will laugh when I hear the news that he died (hopefully very painfully) I was so disappointed when I heard their was going to be new Iron Chef, then i tuned in and saw he was fricking hosting it and made it completely unwatchable
I didn't really watch the Food Network version much because nothing still could compare to the greatness of the original, but still it wasn't that bad.
what kind of psychopath just chomps a bell pepper
WHICH CUISINE REIGNS SUPREME
so memorable
For me, it's the tracking shot whenever Chairman Kaga is about to call out today's contender
If memory serves me right,
I need to find where I can stream this. It was kino.
PlutoTV has all of the original episodes
>BATTARUUU TRUFFFARUUU
They do??? HELL YEAH
There used to be a wordpress site with every US dubbed episode but the domain expired. I assume there's a torrent out there somewhere.
I liked that the only the Chairmans speeches etc in most of the dubbed episodes was never dubbed to english but was subtitled instead, my head canon is that it was out of respect.
You're mostly correct, in that, every scene that ever showed Chairman Kaga speaking IRL in-person NEVER dubbed him. He was always subtitled (it was a sort of "lol, let's do that and build him up to American audiences as a genuinely rich, royal type of guy.")
But, you can't see him speak during the ingredient introductions. So, while in the first season or two, Chairman Kaga's ingredient introduction is subbed (you're correct), the last seasons (see: 80% of the show) Chairman Kaga's ingredient introduction is, in fact, dubbed.
This has ruined it for me, lol. The show only aired here on one obscure low ratings channel at odd hours so I probably didnt see the majority of the episodes.
Well, to be totally fair, there are over 300 episodes of the original 7 season Japanese "Iron Chef" (if you include the specials), but less than half ever got translated to English.
Still, ~120 1-hour long cooking battle shows is a lot of fun.
>", lol."
kys
It only really worked in japan because of how much Japanese humor is rooted in hyperbole. Guys calling themselves "The Sultan of Salt" and the "Oligarch of Oil" and walking out with literal armies of chefs in tow really solidified Japan with foreigners as this mystical place of borderline culinary magic.
And then, when you learn about how Japan has more michelin stars per square mile than anywhere else on earth, you realize that Japan actually had the skills to back it all up. There will never be anything quite like it.
where my Yanbros at?
At the chicken massage
de do de de do de de do de de daaa daaa dooo
I heard that song in a playthrough of Chrono Trigger, remembered ol Brian
I never knew what he yelled exactly. Thanks. Whats Allen's Cusine mean anyway? I always thought he was mad for eating bell peppers like apples.
>15 minutes have elapsed!
>30 minutes have elapsed!
>15 minutes to go!
>5 minutes to go!
>1 minute to go!
>30 seconds to go!
>15 seconds to go!
>10 seconds to go!
>5 seconds!
>3!
>2!
>1!
And that's it! The cooking is done! This abalone battle is o-vah!
And now, the moment of truth: "tasting" & "judgment!"
On the panel today are:
Photographer - Tenmei Kanoh
Actress - Hitomi Takahashi
Actor - Tsurutaro Kataoka
and
Culinary Critic - Asako Kishi
First up, the Challenger
>I see... the mountains, the fields, first, as I'm eating. I start to hear the voices of the oceans, as well! That's how I feel when I'm enjoying this.
>This tastes! So good! In my mouth!
>This is... not too sweet. It has a... subtle sweetness. It's very sophisticated, I think.
>If I had more time, the dish would be even better.
>The aroma is very nice! It's a little sweet, isn't it?
>Really wonderful! I like this. With grated abalone on top... I've never had this before! I'm just trying to say, "this makes me so happy!"
>This, alone, would qualify as a side dish for drinking sake. It's very nice.
An now, Iron Chef Morimoto
>Even more than the abalone, the sauce is very good!
>I enjoy the chewy texture!
>The pike eel and... what else is in this?
>Well, I've added lotus roots.
>Ahhh! I really like the crispy texture.
>I grilled the liver and sprinkled it on top. This will remind you of the ocean.
>It's very simple and... so good!
>I wish I had a glass of wine right now! Like, "whoa!" That would be so great!
Now, the verdict.
>piano march
>Who takes it? Who's cuisine reigns supreme!?
the milk battle has to be one of the weirdest ones they ever did.
Milk....fricking milk.
This tastes! So good! In my mouth! That's what I think.
When you make a dish, like this, with milk, it's called "cheese." It's a very good dish.
I've... never had this amount of milk before... It's, well, it's very strong in flavor!
Milk is something from cows, mostly. So, it's only natural I combined this milk dish with rice and seaweed.
Amazingly accurate
I hate how try hard the American "nephew" Mark is as the chairman compared to the kino of Takeshi
>laughs and jokes around while beating you by 10+ points
I don't get why Simon didn't take off in popularity like Flay and Alton when he has a more entertaining personality than both of them.
I once ran the most popular Iron Chef-centric cooking show livestream on Cinemaphile, it was called Phoostream, not sure what happened to the people who used to come watch, they probably all died though.
If zombiebisque is reading this, it's me, Phooey, I saw your Rimworld mod collection on Steam and lol'd.
There used to be a site with every episode of original Japanese Iron Chef on it, including rare subtitled ones that were never aired in English in America, but apparently that's dead now.
http://ironcheffans.com/
>Chen Kenichi died this year
I'm still not over it, bros
his sons were in one of the specials, watching him cook right? How are they doing?
I think one of his sons is running a restaurant of his own
that's cool. I remember loving when we'd get little peeks into their lives, like that episode where sakai went back to hometown and cooked for his teacher then battled a friend of his from there. good shit
I had some buddies over and I had it on in the background, I told them that half the fun is the dubbing and they didn't believe me initially until that episode came on and they heard the dub voice for the teacher straining to talk like an old man. It was a good night
Man I want to go back to mid 00s internet culture.
Modern day culture is a waste dump. Even 20 years ago feels better. I hate how much "computer phones" became a cheap and accessible thing for anyone to have. I hate that culture.
>37
Used to watch this as a mom as a wee lad. Remember the night of y2k it was on.