The original Iron Chef TV show offered one of my earliest glimpses into the relative madness of Japanese pop culture, though I have to admit that Iron Chef America is pretty engaging even without the cross-cultural confusion. There's a new trailer out for the forthcoming Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine for the DS, which looks like a note-for-note knockoff of the Cooking Mama games, though with the added benefit of Mark Dacascos' shrill screaming.
Iron Chef Meets Cooking Mama
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