Sam Choy on "Iron Chef: America"

Hey, local boy Sam Choy is on Iron Chef: America. I'll watch that! Let's hope he kicks Cat Cora's Ass.

UPDATE 1: I've been to his restaurants a couple times. If you see my flickr page, I actually took a photo of the one on Nimitz:



Like I say in the description: "Out on Nimitz, near Hilo Hatties. Nice place to go if you want overpriced food that tastes so-so."

Ooh, commercial's over, time to watch again.

UPDATE 2: Bruddah Choy's cooking up some chili water. Hmm...a staple condiment in the islands, but will it go over well with the judges?

Oh, by the way, the secret ingredient is clams. CLAMS. This should be interesting. Personally, I would have liked to see the secret ingredient be taro, but then again, that's just me. Actually, an even better secret ingredient would be kim chee, but that would pretty much guarantee that nobody's having sex that night. Hmm, that could possibly be why I'm a bit lacking in my romantic life. But I looooove kim chee soooooooooooo much....*sob sob sob*

UPDATE 3: Choy is making a bacon spinach white sauce and the commentator who is not the godly Alton Brown commented that it looks like a "luau sauce". What the fuck is he talking about???

UPDATE 4: The judges are kinda neat. First of all is that food critic from "Queer Eye", then we have Martin Yan from the infamous "Yan Can Cook" show of yore. Then we have some fat chick who no one knows about. You know she's gotta be a good food critic. I mean, look at her, the lady apparently loves food. And I mean that in both the literal and metaphorical sense. *shiver*

UPDATE 5: Wow, Sam's done with 5 minutes to spare. It looks like he kept his cuisine quite simple while Cora and her crew is still puttering away frantically. It seems Cora's mint foam is not holding together. Not very good consistency. She's gotta replate that. Ick, a melted blob of green. That's not good.

I've been thinking about that comment I made about hefty folks being better food critics, but then again, I shouldn't necessarily correlate girth with good taste in food. I mean, this girl's so fat, it looks like she probably just eats any person place or thing that gets caught in her treacherous gravitational field. I'm sorry. That was mean.

UPDATE 6: Time for the judging! Cora's dishes are very visually appealing. I bet she gets lots of points for plating and creativity. The judges are really digging her wares.

C'mon, Sammy, let's see what you got. Hawaiian Chili Pepper Shooter with Tomato Sauce. Hm, fat chick wants to spir it out because it's too hot. That's not good. I guess she won't eat anything that enters the vicinity of her gigantic maw. Okay, this girl has complained at least five times about how she always gets the chewy clams, and she can't eat them. What the hell. Just pretend that they're ice cream and that your boyfriend just dumped you.

UPDATE 7: Dammit, she's complaining again. The look on her face while she's eating Sam's "Clam Flan" is one of complete horror. She said that she feels like she's on "Fear Factor". Quit whining and stuff your face.

Who's gonna win???? Damn. Cora won. 51 to 45 points. It's all that fat lady's fault. I knew she was trouble.