Iron Chef Chen is pretty much my favorite of the original Iron Chef's. Although it is a hard fight with Iron Chef Morimoto. I got this book last week and have started messing around with things in it. Some of them obviously have some strange translations and some odd ingredients that probably don't really represent what was originally used by Chef Chen. And there are some odd things as well.
But tonight I made his Chili shrimp. I remember this dish getting mentioned all the time on Iron Chef, about how his dad brought it to Japan and adapted it to the Japanese pallet. Well, it is pretty damn good. I still have some kinks to work out, but the sauce is like the bowl good. I think I might make it a little spicier next time, but this was very yummy and that one dish alone was probably worth the purchase price of the book. I need to work on the texture of the shrimp but once I do that I'll be putting up some pictures. should have taken some tonight, but being the first time I made it, I was too busy cooking to snap a photo or two!
