I just finished watching Iron Chef on SBS 1 and it was an anglerfish battle between the challenger Seiya Masahara and the Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, the famous Iron Chef for his unique style of cooking and presenting the food. The challenger, Seiya Masahara, lost three battles with Chef Morimoto before finally winning one in this anglerfish battle.
This anglerfish is so unique for me as I've never seen one before. This wide-mouth fish is famous in northern Japan such as Hokkaido as 'Ankoo'. The fish named for their characteristic method of predation. Anglerfishes typically have at least one long filament sprouting from the middle of the head; these are detached and modified three first spines of the anterior dorsal fin. This first spine protrudes above the fish's eyes, and terminates in an irregular growth of flesh (the esca) at the tip of the spine. The spine is movable in all directions, and the esca can be wiggled so as to resemble a prey animal, and thus to act as a bait to lure other predator close enough for the anglerfish to devour them whole.
(Source: Wikipedia)
And if you are an Iron Chef's fan, which Iron Chef do you think has the best win-loss records? I thought Morimoto-san would be on the top but I was wrong, here is the list of their records.
Iron Chef | Title | Win | Loss | Draw | Total | Win % |
Iron Chef Chinese | 67 | 22 | 3 | 92 | 75.3% | |
Iron Chef French (I) | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 87.5% | |
Iron Chef French (II) | 70 | 15 | 1 | 86 | 82.4% | |
Iron Chef Italian | 15 | 7 | 1 | 23 | 68.2% | |
Iron Chef Japanese (I) | 32 | 5 | 1 | 38 | 86.5% | |
Iron Chef Japanese (II) | 24 | 11 | 1 | 36 | 68.6% | |
Iron Chef Japanese(III) | 16 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 69.6% |
(Source: Wikipedia)
2 comments:
i haven't watched iron chef in AGES! i remember the angler fish from disney's "finding nemo"...one dangerous fish!!
when i last watched iron chef, chef kenichi / chef sakai always won without a doubt.
must remember to tune in next week :D
Grub,
Ah.. now I remember that dangerous fish in 'Nemo', thanks for that :)
Do you want to set reminder for Iron Chef? Saturday 8:30PM SBS 1 .. :)
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