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Hiroyuki Sakai (坂井 宏行, Sakai Hiroyuki, born April 2, 1942) is a Japanese chef who specializes in French cuisine.Sakai is best known as the second, final, and longest-serving Iron Chef French on the Japanese television show Iron Chef, [4] [5] first appearing at the beginning of 1994 (after Yutaka Ishinabe retired) and continuing to appear over the show's nine further seasons.
Iron Chef (料理の鉄人, Ryōri no Tetsujin, literally "Iron People of Cooking") is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television.The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, was a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient.
Like Iron Chef, each chef is allowed two sous-chefs. In tag-team or two-on-one battles, both chefs on one side each bring one sous-chef. On the original Iron Chef, early episodes had two chefs without sous-chefs, while later episodes had two chefs and one sous-chef per side. The sous-chefs employed by the Iron Chefs are as follows:
Hiroyuki Sakai & Masahiko Kobe Iron Chef Watermelon: Hiroyuki Sakai & Masahiko Kobe 191 August 15, 1997 Chen Kenichi Sōsei Kawaguchi (川口宗清) Vegetarian Eggplant Chen Kenichi 192 August 22, 1997 Hiroyuki Sakai Pietro Androsoni Italian Melon: Hiroyuki Sakai 193 August 29, 1997 Komei Nakamura Yoshinori Kojima (小島孔典) French
The show continued with just French Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai and Chinese Iron Chef Chen Kenichi for two months. Koumei Nakamura was appointed as his successor. Initially, Nakamura refused, but later on, he accepted. Nakamura's first battle was on March 1, 1996, against French chef Kiyoshi Suzuki.
Chen originally accepted his position on Iron Chef out of the need for a challenge, although the format of the show intrigued him. Even though he was the longest-serving Iron Chef and the only original Iron Chef, having been an Iron Chef for the series' six-year run, Chen had on several occasions considered leaving his position; among his reasons was the desire to tend to his restaurants ...
Takeshi Kaga (鹿賀 丈史, Kaga Takeshi), real name Shigekatsu Katsuta (勝田 薫且, Katsuta Shigekatsu, born October 12, 1950), is a well-known stage and movie actor in Japan who is best known internationally for his portrayal of Chairman Kaga in the Japanese television show Iron Chef produced by Fuji TV.
Morimoto at work in 2002. Morimoto and Hiroyuki Sakai were the only two original Iron Chefs to appear on Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters.On this Food Network special series, he lost two battles with American Iron Chefs Mario Batali and Wolfgang Puck, but won a tag team battle along with partner Bobby Flay against Batali and Sakai.