I’ve been seeing ads on the Food Network that Iron Chef, one of my favorite shows, is taping an episode in NY. The challenger will be their own Bobby Flay, who hosts a show on the same channel. It’s set for I think a week from Sunday.
I am so there.
My roommate and I have begun speculating on just how this show will adapt to being in New York. What will the secret ingredient be? I’d love to see them do something like, I don’t know, ketchup? Mayo? American cheese?
Who will judge? If they’re American, will the show be worth watching without the horrifically bad dubbing?
Gotta go set the VCR now.
Yeessss! There are other demented IC fans around! Catch the thread over in MPSMIS about this.
IMHO (apt, huh?) if there is any justice and taste in the world, Moriomoto will stomp Bobby Flay like Godzilla flattening Tokyo. I just wish they’d tapped Ming Tsai for the gig.
The Ingredient is toss-up. Bet it’ll be something “American”, at least by stereotype. Corn? Gad, notSpam?!
The promos of the IC and Kaga, duded up in sequins, etc. in the middle of Times Square is a hoot. I can’t wait.
Veb
“Quizan?”
::Thunderous, anticipatory music::
The secret ingredient:
“I gotcha corned beef right here, fella!”
Should be a battle.
You only have to wait a week??? {{{wail}}}
They aren’t showing it here until the 25th!!!
Signing up as another rabid Iron Chef fan!
I squealed in delight when I heard they were in New York and bringing Bobby Flay into this–I hope Morimoto just grinds Bobby Flay into the dirt! (as culinary school progresses, I run into more people that have connections to these famous chefs… I got a whole load of dirt on Flay from my instructor, who worked with him for a while)
And is anyone else reminded of those terra-cotta armies they found in China during the opening segment when he’s got all his chefs lined up in Kitchen Stadium?
Ohhh I can’t wait!
“Oh, Fuki-san?!?”
Hey everyone! Check out my thread in MPSIMS talking about this. Anyway, TVeblen, I saw the ads too. Kaga and troupe look awesome! I love the outfits! They seemed to blend right in to NYC. Heh heh heh.
But will the American speak… English? I mean, it’ll lose all it’s charm without that wonderfully awful dubbing…
“If memory serves me…”
I’m having trouble thinking of how Kaga will issue the challenge to Bobby Flay:
“Sa, Fu-ray yo!”
I dunno…could be a hoot…
I know who wins, but who does the judging? Is there a (Lower) House member who dresses like a french fop? And mebbe Jeanne Dixon can sit in for Hosoki-san…
smeg…
No fair we have to wait til the 25th, but if you find out who wins before then you have to promise not to spoil it for us poor saps. We just got the Food Channel a week ago and already are hooked on IC. What a blast.
I’m jealous of you NYC Dopers…
struuter
<<Hanging head in shame>>
My bad. It’s NOW a week from next Sunday. I get it the same time as all of you. Sorry.
I’m still holding out for the theme ingredient of hot dogs. That would be great. I thought of it during last week’s show, where they said they had $8,000 worth of veal for the two chefs. I can just see the equivalent scene - “We have here over $5 worth of NY hot dogs…”
The best scene from the commercials, IMHO, is where the Chairman bites into the infamous yellow pepper in the middle of the street. I just wish they played the crowd’s reaction. Actually, that’s my favorite scene in the regular IC episodes, too. What the hell is he doing? Proving his manliness by eating a pepper? Who does that?
You know how the Iron Chefs rise from the ground in front of pictures of themselves? I want one of those pictures of me for my bedroom wall.
“Fuki-san?” “Take it, big guy!” Ha ha. I love that.
My friend is hosting an Iron Chef party the night of the 25th. Me, him and another friend are the three iron chefs. Our friends are going to pick three ingredients, and we each have to make an appetizer, entree, and dessert (one “special” ingredient per recipe is fine). I am SO going to kick their asses.
Our other friends are all arguing over who gets to be the giggling ingenue. “(giggle) It’s like springtime in my mouth!”
Do the challengers get to bring their own assistants if they want, or do they have to use the Academy-provided henchmen? I know that the guy from San Francisco (can’t recall his name at the moment) used the staff from the show, but do local (that is, Japanese) challengers get to bring their own folks to help them? If not, I think that’d be a tremendous disadvantage, having to deal with new staff in addition to being on unfamiliar ground.
ROTFLMAO - my roomate just said two of the funniest words ever to be strung together:
“Battle Velveeta”!
That would rock.
DUBBING?!?!?!?
…so is Iron Chef dubbed into English now? A couple of friends of ours turned us on to Iron Chef… and to their glee, I have almost 100% aural comprehension of Japanese. So when the San Francisco TV station started airing Iron Chef with no English subtitles, they’d ask me over to do a play-by-play translation. As it turns out even the subtitle version misses a lot of the quick chatter said in between the conversations, so I’d point out stuff to them when I’d hear something interesting. Definitely a fun show. 
Finally the Iron Chef is coming to New York. I heard and read all about it but I can’t get the show in the tri-state area. If it is as funny as you say it is, I hope that it would be adopted by one of the networks. It would be funnier than 99% of the sitcom crap currently being offered.
“(giggle) It’s like springtime in my mouth!” Way too funny!
I think you could probably start your own thread with that one…something like:
Best Dubbed Giggling Ingenue Line
or
What to say with a mouth full of Velveeta
Oh, last week the giggling line was something like, “I feel like I’m floating…up in the sky and the clouds are all around me.” Asparagus can do that to some people.
<Sorry for the minor hi-jack, Smedhead>
struuter
I’m surprised there hasn’t been an American rip-off of this show yet. You’d think some desperate network like CBS would be copying what is obviously a very successful formula.
Then again, it just wouldn’t be the same with boring American ingredients and no dubbing. (“Today’s ingredient: giant eel!!!” Let’s face it. Pork chops just couldn’t compare…)
(JavaMaven1, fancy seeing you in this thread…)
There has. “Ready, Set, Cook!” on the Food network. It was decent, although it had things I didn’t like, like guests from the studio audience helping the cooks (who cares?), and of course the annoying title. Also, the fact that the winner was decided by looks alone - not tasting.
There is just no way that the Americans could ever do this right–the charm of this show would be lost forever if any of the major networks touched it.
But, then again, if they got Julia Child on nailing the giant eel in the head to skin it alive… I’d sure be watching that episode.
Spoke, you know if the thread is about food and/or cooking, I’m sure to be there.