[Sca-cooks] Iron Chef America...redux!

[Elaine Koogler]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Also sprach Phlip:
>
>> A, I saw both battles with Morimoto. He lost the first one 
>> legitimately, and
>> insulted every Japanese there when he climbed up on the counter with his
>> shoes on the cutting board, to do a "victory" salute to himself.
>>
>> Next battle, after all his whining got him a rematch, he did just as 
>> poorly,
>> only this time in Japan, he threw the cutting board on the floor 
>> before he
>> climbed up on the counter- and he "won" only because the Japanese 
>> gave it to
>> him to save face.
>>
>> In the Masters battles, the Japanese lost every time. I cannot 
>> believe that
>> that little twit could out cook Sakai, under any circumstances. What 
>> makes
>> it particularly suspicious, is that when he and Morimoto went against 
>> Sakai
>> and Batali. There is no way in Hel those two could beat either Sakai or
>> Batali- Batali may LOOK like a chipmunk, but the man can cook.
>>
>> Hel, _I_ could outcook that idiot Flay, and I'm certainly nothing 
>> akin to a
>> prefessional cook.
>>
>> And, FYI, the Chairman is/was a professional actor, not a wealthy 
>> eccentric-
>> he's fairly well known in Japan for, among other things, doing 
>> Shakespeare.
>> Not sure where his "nephew" comes from, but odds are he too is an 
>> actor, and
>> from the looks of things, the entire show will be a set up as blatant as
>> professional wrestling.
>
>
> You and Margali both need to hunt down and rent a copy of Stephen 
> Chow's "The God Of Cookery", which is basically a spoof of Iron Chef, 
> with fun nods to kung-fu movies in which the combatants have to 
> announce the elaborate names for their techniques as they're doing 
> them "(Shaolin Nine-Fisted Saute Technique!!!"), the incredibly 
> pompous, unqualified and sycophantic judges, everything.
>
> Basically, it concerns Iron Chef China (although for purposes of our 
> story he's The God Of Cookery) being railroaded by unscrupulous 
> vendors and a traitorous assistant into a well-deserved, if smashingly 
> total and very public, defeat, and his decision to go back to basics 
> and attend a cooking school in the remote countryside, which, through 
> some administrative error, turns out to actually be the Shaolin 
> monastery. Hijinks ensue until our hero emerges, humbled, reformed, 
> and much bruised, to compete for his title again.
>
> I suppose it's sort of an acquired taste, but boring, it's not. ;-)
>
> Adamantius

I take it that this is a movie?  Unfortunately, I doubt I can find it in 
the great "megalopolis" of Prince Frederick...pooh!

Kiri