S1 E1: Red Snapper
Morimoto's debut as an Iron Chef brings a difficult challenger: Yukio Hirayama.
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Cooking competition between the Iron Chef and one selective challenger each week to face off in the ultimate culinary battle.
Morimoto's debut as an Iron Chef brings a difficult challenger: Yukio Hirayama.
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Iron Chef Kobe and Mario Frittoli, who both learned from masters of Italian cuisine, will face off in this battle of broccoli.
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Iron Chef Morimoto engages Challenger Masayoshi Kimura in this battle of rice.
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Chef Sakai, known as the Iron Chef French, will have his hands full in this battle specially designed around Wedgwood china.
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The challenger is a master chef hailing from Kyoto. He has the support of the former Iron Chef Michiba and Dr. Yatori. Can the Iron Chef win this battle?
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The challenger is a seafood expert who chooses and masterfully cooks gifts from the sea. He has apprenticed in the top kitchens of Japan. Which competitor will find the soul of the sea?
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The challenger is a stubborn chef descended from a long line of Tokyo dwellers. The Iron Chef will have his hands full facing such a strong tradition.
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The challenger is one of the few Mexican food specialists in Tokyo. This is a Latin duel at Kitchen Stadium.
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Andre Pachon is the leader of the French chef community in Japan. Several of his apprentices have already appeared, but this time Pachon sends his number one man.
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The younger sibling of the Liang brothers, rulers of Cantonese cuisine in Japan, faces the Iron Chef Chinese.
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Iron Chef Chen engages Challenger Lian Su Qin using konnyaku, a unique Japanese healthy food.
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The challenger is a woman who knows what she likes. As an elite culinary critic, she trained at Le Cordon Bleu as well as Taillevent, an elite French restaurant in Paris.
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The former Iron Chef Michiba decides that Morimoto needs some help finding his feet, so he recruits his number one sous-chef from his own days at Kitchen Stadium.
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Japan's culinary media is dominated by today's challenger, a food critic, musician and graphic artist. Kentaro is determined to make a name for himself at Kitchen Stadium.
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The Iron Chef Italian is challenged by a chef hailing from Kyoto who never ceases to pack his restaurant with customers.
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Morimoto fights a traditionalist chef who fills his dishes with nostalgia.
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Meiji Kinenkan is the oldest bridal hall in Japan undergoing an upgrade to celebrate its 50th anniversary. This includes the addition of a Chinese restaurant and its new grand chef.
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Iron Chef Chen stirs up his best yogurt presentation against Challenger Junichi Ito.
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Iron Chef Morimoto battles with Challenger Tsuyoshi Kajimoto as they innovate with abalone, a shellfish.
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The Iron Chef is called upon to face Miyoko Sakai, a famed Thai food critic who has had the privilege to learn the secrets of royal Thai cuisine straight from the source.
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Iron Chef Morimoto faces another traditionalist who is infamous for his temper, his steadfast discipline and his adherence to tradition.
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The challenger in this battle of peach is Masanobu Watabe, owner of Le Rameau d'Or in Yokohama, Japan. Watabe runs the entire 22-seat restaurant by himself.
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Chen's challenger is a man who masters Chaozhou-style Chinese cuisine, an exacting style that is actually able to please the sensitive tastes of customers in Kyoto.
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Sakai battles the "conjurer of garlic," a chef who embraces the pungent ingredient as real Italians do. Sakai is further challenged to use live squids in the dishes.
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Three years after losing to Iron Chef Chen, the Italian restaurant Sabatini demands a rematch, this time sending in the master chef of their Tokyo restaurant.
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Led by Tadamichi Ohta, the chef who defeated Sakai, the Ohta faction invades Kitchen Stadium to uphold traditional Japanese cuisine. Fuji is team Ohta's first contender against Morimoto.
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