[.ca] Iron Wok Jan Volume 13 (ISBN 1597960314)

Out of television, in with illustration. A MANGA!!!!!!!:
I absolutely love this book. A must-see!!!! Its tell the story of a young hot-shot, extremely cocky chef, Jan Akiyama, working at the Gobancho Resturant as a traniee but he is extremely proud to think that his cooking is better than others. He still have much more to learn. Sure, the comic genre will blow your big mind away when he comes up with something unique and creative dishes yet strange and bizzare. Its also feature some cool little martial art moves in the competition. Jan is not the only one, but there are other new prodigy in the cooking field is Kiriko Gobancho, and Cilene Yang (Big busty girl) complete against him as well. Each of them have different cooking philosophy. This comic will sure laugh your roundy belly till you pee in your pants. This is cooking manga managed to keep the reader entertaining than the cooking television. Buy it, I recommmend it.

Get your "Iron Chef" fix:
So, this is volume three in the Iron Wok Jan series- a new one seems to be coming out about every month. The basics: It's about 200 pages, B & W, with the original Japanese panel ordering (i.e. the whole thing is backwards). It's cooking manga, completely over the top, filled with bizarre characters making even more bizarre foods. And it's a blast. It's unabashedly an Iron Chef rip-off, with this volume taking place entirely during a cooking tournament (with some flashbacks to the chefs involved in training). It's breezy, fun, and passes the "would my significant other enjoy it?" test with flying colors.

Expertly served up, with lots of ham:
This is volume one of the "Iron Wok Jan" series- new volumes are coming out on a monthly basis. It's a bit shy of 200 pages, b & w, in the original Japanese format (that is, backwards). This volume introduces us to cocky young chef Jan, who cooks only to defeat his opponents! If this sounds over the top, it assuredly is- but you'll be caught up in the high melodrama and the bizarre recipes. Now that Food Network is out of new episodes of "Iron Chef," there's no better place to get that "they're eating what?!" thrill.