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The Featured Ingredient on tonight's episode of Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") on SBS Television is ...

Boot

Sole

Once again I am pleased to report that the Featured Ingredient was dead, so it did not try to run away.  Nor did we have to have a Reader Advisory at the start of the program warning viewers that scenes might be "distressing to some viewers".

I have also commented in previous posts on  Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") that Chairman Kaga is no Bert Newton.  He might be a great actor but he is hopeless at improv.  A sample.

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Chairman Kaga (to Challenger): So you have heard about my show i n San Francisco? (where the Challenger works)

Challenger [waxes lyrical at great length about how the show is famous amongst all chefs great and small].

Chairman Kaga [after a pause, looks deep in thought]:  Really?

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Admittedly these are the sub-title renditions of the conversations.  But ... really?

Unfortunately, no sooner have I got back into the Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") habit that SBS announce that it is going off for a few weeks.  Oh well.

• Earlier reviews of Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") may be found on The Mount Kembla Chronicle.

The Featured Ingredient on tonight's episode of Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") on SBS Television is ...

1. Sardines
2. Ham

Ingredient # 1 was straightforward (and it was already dead, so it didn't try to run away). 

Michiba Rokusaburo

Ingredient # 2 refers to the bad acting of Iron Chef Michiba Rokusaburo.  Now I do not doubt that he was, at this stage of the series, ill.  Indeed, he did have to drop out soon after.  But the bad acting was so bad that it put me off the pendin gSardine Battle.

And he didn't look like he was in hospital, unless Japanese hospitals are particularly homely.

This man is one of the Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking" !!!! He shouldn't be showing weakness like this (and in such an unconvincing manner).  His opponents will rub his nose in their sashimi.

By the way, the propaganda-style poster of Michiba san comes from Dashiell Dunn's website www.maestrosync.com.  His posters and his website are well worth reading.

 Previous reviews of Iron Chef may be found at The Mount Kembla Chronicle.