Gourmet AcademyвЂ™s arch-foe Kandagawa brings in his little Romulan-looking henchman to do battle with the mighty Iron Chef Michiba. If memory serves me right, this was the very first episode of Iron Chef I watched back in College and itвЂ™s still one of my favourites. French fight (with a traditional ingredient! Bonus!) what really makes this episode shine is the bizarre behaviour of Inoue, who stalks the stadium during the battle, wine glass in-hand, attacking assistants and generally being a slimeball to the tasters. Iron Chef Sakai always got the weirdest challengers! In this case the feckless apprentice of JapanвЂ™s most celebrated French Chef, Noboru Inoue. The best (or perhaps least silly) of these was ChenвЂ™s three-episode war with YokohamaвЂ™s Hei Chin Rou Restaurant, culminating in this intense and wildly entertaining boss fight with Master Chef Xie. Iron Chef Japan had many вЂњWarвЂќ story lines where a restaurant or faction of cooks would target a specific Iron Chef and send challenger after challenger at them until their honor had been regained, or something. If I could choose just one battle to be on the tasting panel, this would be it. The result is a perfect episode: Tense, exciting, dramatic, funny and more than a little insane. Chen, rising to meet this massive challenge, cranks the enthusiasm up to eleven.

Cui YufenД¬ui, a вЂњNational TreasureвЂќ trained in Peking-style Chinese cuisine walks into Kitchen Stadium, challenges poor вЂol Chen and schools all of Japan in what real Chinese cooking looks/tastes like. Big love to everyone uploading nostalgic goodness!Д¬hinese Cabbage Battle вЂ“ Chen Vs. If youвЂ™re digging вЂem check out the rest of the dubbed episodes available on Xacred, CZY and AllukaNanikaвЂ™s YouTube feeds. Episodes that IвЂ™ve watched again and again, sitting at my kitchen table prepping for dinner. If youвЂ™re looking for a proper вЂњTopвЂќ five list with statistics and pie charts showing the cultural impact of KagaвЂ™s hairpiece, youвЂ™ll have to look elsewhere. IвЂ™ve pulled only from the fraction of episodes dubbed for Food Network in English and have used no metric more sophisticated than my own enjoyment. This list is by no means comprehensive or authoritative. While putting together last weekвЂ™s insane love letter to Iron Chef I reviewed quite a few episodes on YouTube and thought IвЂ™d share my top five with the internet at large.

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