Iron Chef wows a crowd down under
Australia's favourite food blogger, Not Quite Nigella , aka Lorraine Elliott, savours the delicious concoctions of the Iron Chefs.
If I said the words ‘Whose cuisine reigns supreme?’ I would hazard a guess that most of you would know that I was quoting a line from the television show Iron Chef. You may also know the names of the Iron Chefs who have graced our television screens every Saturday night for seemingly the last few decades (do they ever run out of episodes?). The studious may even know which of the three main chefs has the highest percentage of wins over losses (it is Iron Chef Japanese Michiba at 86.5 per cent, followed by Iron Chef French Sakai at 83 per cent and Iron Chef Chinese Chen at 76 per cent). And knowing that they have a loyal fan base, the Iron Chefs visit Australia every year to hold a very special dinner. For $485 per person you can bag a place at a table, and for $585, you can get yourself a seat at a VIP table within sweating distance of the chefs.
This year, diners receive two courses from each Iron Chef plus two courses and canapes from RACV chef Mark Normoyle. This is Melbourne’s first Iron Chef dinner and expectations are high and diners are excited.
The Iron Chefs are ageless and, having a read of their bios, I am somewhat surprised to learn that Sakai is 69 years old and Chen is 55 yet they look exactly like they did on the television show which was filmed from 1992-1999.
Sakai explains the first dish that he has prepared and host Mayumi Uchida translates for him. For this dish they have used 9,000 kilos of Western Australian marron and $2,000 worth of caviar and each guest will get about $10 worth of caviar in their martini glass. They show a short video of the kitchen preparing the dish that was filmed earlier. Interestingly, the glasses are filled while within plastic lined cardboard boxes and with a prompt the tens of white-gloved waiters head towards the kitchen.
A few minutes later a martini glass filled with Iron Chef Sakai’s dish arrives. There are plump morsels of wonderfully cooked marron – sweet and tender and not chewy at all. The costly pearl meat has a wonderful texture; softer and spongier than marron and lobster but not wet, and it seems to be the ingredient that many are using nowadays.
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