Iron Wok Jan 10
Posted: December 27, 2007 Filed under: Iron Wok Jan 1 Comment »I thought bringing 5 volumes of RG Veda and 5 (turned out to be 6) volumes of Dragon Ball was going to be too much for me to read. It looks like I’m going to get through a ton more of my manga backlog than I thought this week. I may actually run out of stuff to read, which is amazing considering I brought around 33 volumes to read and another 9 volumes that I had to write about.
But this was one of the series I had the most volumes of. I’m a little sad I’m not going to get to finish off the battle with the Taoist soon, but things were definitely ramped up in this volume. Jan uses “Dragon Tears” along with things like scorpions and geckos in a dish meant to enhance longevity, and when the Judges find out “Dragon Tears” are actually whale gallstones, they are rather nonplussed by the dish and Jan has to shame them into eating it. Apparently it was so good that blood spurted out their noses. Just in case Jan’s dish wasn’t evil enough, the Taoist entry to this category was one which forced the person eating to consume food until their body had enough nutrients.
I was happy to see the Taoist drop all semblance of his good persona in this volume. He’s actually just as bad as Jan when it comes to being evil, manipulating people, and wanting to win.
The match is driven into a fifth round, a tiebreaker. The theme is to take the person eating the dish to heaven by making the best dish possible. Unfortunately, Jan uses Durian fruit. Durian fruit is, in fact, the most rotten, foul fruit on the face of the Earth, and it neither smells nor tastes good. I’ve given it several chances, because I want to believe it serves a purpose in cooking somehow, but I have not yet found its calling… so to speak. Despite the fact that Jan does something to it to make it smell better, I tend to agree with the Taoist, I think Jan will lose solely because he laid his hands on that fruit. He should have known better.
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