Iron Chef - Battle Lobster (4 of 5)

[DarknessMadeFlesh]

Bobby Flay? that guy is a loser and cry baby. also a Iron Chef in Iron Chef America? that is sad enough said....

[picjusbro]

American Iron Chef has nothing on this.

[uberathlete]

Ron schooled Sakai. I bet it was quite a surprise to the Japanese hosts (except maybe Hattori) who probably didn't know the magnitude of the training Ron got at a world class establishment like The French Laundry.

[TheWhiteSupremacy]

Bitch was whining about the absence of desert  EIPIC WTF>!!!

[chefkoo]

0:40 (whiny voice) "So it's not a dessert? But I was really looking forward to dessert"... Shut.... up...

[Julalaxsa]

He's definitely better than Bobby Flay and way more polite too.

[VampyressKatt]

OMG @ Fukui-san saying "homeboy."

[NikYay]

The Japanese are talking so fast, Ron almost sounds like a stoner lol.

[plumgreen]

just kidding

[greattlemurs]

what the hell are you talking about?

[admrlcheese]

Have you been watching this? " Japanese have the best pallets in the world" "Its hard to believe he's never been out of the states" "When I first saw you I didn't expect much"....

[admrlcheese]

Be original? Clearly I was quoting the show to illustrate my point.- Do you know what quoting is????

[LVPHOTOG]

I don't mean to be an ass.I'm under the weather today. Yes I do.

[xenophlarb]

sakai looks like a very japanese charles bronson

[mojoutube]

I find this episode pretty funny.

Besides the english translations, the part whn the actress whined - oh there's no dessert? aww etc etc. thn the guy replied ok we can go collect bck the figs etc. haha

[ilwa7shhh]

Omg the english translation is crazy..first they say "The mayor of san francisco and the governor of tokyo both had miserable years." Then they said "Mayor will now get to see how his homeboy does." And that singer guy said "It's hard to believe he comes from america." Lol that's classic.

[BushidoBen]

well seeing how french food is popular around the world, italian , chinese also strong food tradition, when that japanese judge think of america they dont think american has strong cooking tradition, which is just rediculous and prejudice. it dont matter where you are from, you are good at what you do when you work hard at it

[greattlemurs]

I agree entirely with what you say about just working hard. But it is also true that the USA does not have highly original dishes (outside of european traditions). I would pretty hard pressed to think of a three course meal comprised of (highly quality) uniquely or originally american dishes...

[VampyressKatt]

Japan, China, Italy, France, etc. are each cultural exclusive countries. America is a "Melting Pot" which means our cuisine has themes from many countries.

[greattlemurs]

No country is 'culturally exclusive', if you look back at the history of places they are all influenced heavily by other culturesin their history but also currently.

Southern Italy was heavily influenced by Arab cooking, both with individual cooking traidtions and they created lots of original fruit/fish dishes which are absent from even Central italy... i.e. white fish baked with oranges, octopus and grapefruit salad etc...

the USA, what paradigmatic shifts resulted from its ''melting pot''?

[bigdonkey002]

You forget the influence of indigenous ingredients

[katkatsmilez]

"its not a dessert? so we dont get a dessert?!" lolx

[bardsinister]

All of the dishes look amazing. I don't see how North Atlantic lobster gives an edge to Siegel. Sakai is very familiar with this type of lobster. He just happened to lose his past two battles using it.

[SexySug3742]

imagine how they'd taste! I'd go to the stadium just to try his dishes! ^_^