THE IRON CHEF OF BAKAL 2

For 7 days, the Chairman's Filipino uncle hosted five Iron Chefs in the Kitchen Stadium of Bakal 2 to battle the Phantom Biker in the Quest for an Iron Legend. 

 

In the first duel, Chef Curtis Stone's street lamb menu lost to the Phantom Bikers' ginisang monggo at pritong manok that were seasoned with a generous dose of love juices from the Loving Adults of Denmark.

Chef Dominique Crenn's tailgate ribs next fell to a tanigue prepared two ways as sinigang sa miso and kinilaw, while Chef Marcus Samuelsson's milk-based pastry was no match to a combination of inihaw na tuna belly at tortang talong that were gathered from The Hunt in Croatia. 

And for Running Away with the Devil, Chef Ming Tsai's game birds festival was edged with a fully loaded nilagang baka just as a sinigang na baboy from The Wild World of John McAfee in Belize eked past Chef Gabriela Camara's chocolate challenge.

The side events too were ruled by local cuisine with Wednesday's tokwa't baboy, Thursday's dinakdakan, Friday's manok na tinola sa tanglad and Saturday's bihon guisado neutralizing Kleo Straub's chili pepper challenge and the sturgeon and seafood stash she smuggled from East Germany. 

Andri Olafsson was however En(Trapped) by a biker gang in Siglufjörður so the Phantom Biker took to the trails to stock the red suitcase he won at the Kitchen Stadium with igado from the SIDCOR Sunday Market and Mabuhay Lounge's sweet High Flyer cocktail before PR 736 had it delivered to the cult's hotel in Bangkok where a tattoed woman nibbled on crab omelette that remained crispy depsite the rain...