- Shokugeki! Ha!
- (PvF) We are finally having you two face off
in an epic Food Wars Shokugeki to see whose dish reigns supreme,
and who's eating the punishment?
- That would be you.
- No, it's obviously you.
- Do you realize how many dishes
I have made in the course of working at People Vs Food?
- But guess what?
They haven't eaten my food yet.
- (PvF) And your judges today will be myself, Sharon, and Ed.
Are you ready to see what you're battling in first?
- Let's do it. - Let's go!
- Oh. - Oh, we have to do an appetizer.
- We're making an appetizer! - Okay!
- That's my favorite thing in the world to make.
I forgot my push up bra.
- Yeah, you, I mean. (laughs)
I couldn't even say anything.
- (PvF) Like the opening act of a culinary concert,
you'll each be presenting us with a tantalizing taste
that'll set the stage for an unforgettable meal.
Alright you guys, so they are cooking us appetizers.
- Ooh, I love a good appy. - How are we feeling?
- I'm gonna go Chef Ash, I love Brian, but Chef Ash.
- I mean, it's a question mark,
'cause we've never had Brian's cooking so far.
- Well, Brian's for sure gonna bring his A game.
- He's gonna bring his A game, he's gonna come in real strong.
- He's talked a very big game.
He's raised expectation levels like here.
- (Kenneth) If you could Shokugeki anyone, who would it be?
- (Brian) It would be Chef Ash.
Ash, you've been making great dishes all day,
so when our Shokugeki happens,
I cannot wait to beat you, and then you get my punishment.
- (Ash) You're on, Brian. You're on.
- (Brian) Ooh.
- What makes a good appetizer?
- Oh, appetizers are definitely something like usually smaller,
something that gets your appetite going.
- And it needs to go with the theme of what you're eating.
- Guys, bring us our first dish!
- Let's go!
- So Ash isn't ready for this.
So my entire menu is Asian fusion, okay?
So the first thing that I'm doing is a cheese corn,
which we will usually get at a lot of Korean restaurants,
or a lot of Asian restaurants,
but I'm doing it elote style.
- (both) Ooh!
- Ooh, it smells yummy. - It smells really delightful.
- (PvF) So this is dish number one.
It looks like we have some corn, some cheese.
- Instead of using a mozzarella or any other cheese,
I'm using Oaxaca cheese.
Give it that delicious cilantro as well.
Tell me that doesn't look absolutely amazing.
I know spice-wise, people get a little crazy,
so I'm just gonna do just a little bit of chili powder.
- I love a good skillet cook.
- I have to say, this sort of feels like a side dish,
not an appetizer. - Yeah.
- I would agree with that.
- I would say corn as like an appetizer is a little...
- (Sharon) Yeah. - A little lackluster.
- So yeah, Chef Ash cannot beat me this round.
Game over. (laughs)
- Hey Brian, I forgot to mention, that's not chili powder.
That's actually our Carolina Reaper,
so you have definitely [censored] the bed with this one.
- What!?
- Bon appetit. - Bon appetit.
(bullets ricocheting)
(record scratches)
- It's a little salty. - Just a little salty.
- It's good though. - It is tasty.
- It is good.
- It's not actually, I'm just kidding.
- Yeah, it says chili powder!
- How's the cheese?
- It feels like curds, it's a little harder.
- It's a harder cheese, it's chewier.
- Mm-hmm. - Stringier.
You're right, it's a little salty.
- Mm-hmm. - But it is really nice.
There is some depth of flavor there, and chili powder.
- I think if they went a little bit lighter on the salt,
we'd be able to open up to more of the seasonings
that are in there. - Oh yeah, 100%.
- Open up to more of the seasoning!
- Who am I right now? (laughs)
- I think we've gotten a good taste of dish one.
Are we ready to try dish number two?
- Yes! - Yes we are.
- For my appetizer, I have, I'm going to make a burrata crostini.
(explosion echoes)
- (group) Ooh!
- Ooh! - Level up!
- (PvF) Smell, do you smell it? - (Sharon) That's got a nice smoke.
- (PvF) The nice smoke!
- (Sharon) It smells to me like an added smoke,
like they hit it with some smoke before bringing it out, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, like they brought their smoker.
- I have my crostini right here,
that I have cut out of a baguette.
We've got some prosciutto,
layering it with the, of course, fresh burrata.
- Oh, and there's honey on the top!
- Oh my gosh. - Oh!
- There's honey on top! - Mm-hmm!
- You can taste the rosemary in there too, that's really good.
- Mm-hmm, this is so good. - Mm-hmm.
- This is fantastic.
- My favorite components that I will add on top of this
is some hot honey over the whole dish.
Top it with some cracked pepper, and just a touch of salt.
Garnish, I'd do just a little bit of a rosemary leaf.
And then of course, for the smoked element,
we have a smoker.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
And that is my appetizer.
- It's a little heavy on the mozzarella.
As an appetizer, this would sit heavy.
- You're wrong. (group laughs)
I also haven't eaten cheese in so long!
You're so wrong, this is so good!
You know what it's missing though? - Wine?
- Wine! - Woah!
- It needs a nice glass of wine!
- That would be perfect. - Definitely nice glass.
- This drizzle though on top of the cheese.
I'm loving it. - That surprised us all.
- My leg's sticky.
(Ed laughs) - That's...
- It's making me feel the things! (Sharon laughs)
- Making me feel awkward. - It's getting me a little hot.
- It's getting, yeah, I know.
- I will say this appetizer made me take my jacket off.
- Ooh. - Just saying.
- (Sharon) Ooh.
- Okay, are we ready to lock in our votes?
- I am. - Oh yeah.
- Chefs, if you would like to enter?
So, who made which dish?
- This lovely dish, which you have just consumed,
would be mine, it is a smoked burrata and prosciutto on a crostini.
This is my favorite appetizer,
and the first time I ever made it was over a campfire,
so I actually toasted... - (group) Oh!
- I could see this being served at a restaurant,
and people would go in just for this.
- So mine was an Asian fusion of Korean cheese corn and elote.
I understand why it seems a little oversalted,
but obviously, Korean cheese corn is not a side dish.
That's an appetizer, what are you talking about?
- What?
- It was really good,
and I think if you were to add like a protein to it,
or something like that,
then I would eat that as a main course.
- I'm pretty sure that I know how this is going to go,
and that's okay.
- And three, two, one.
- Oh! - Dish number two.
- Mm-hmm. - Dish number two!
Chef Ash takes the first round! - Chef Ash.
- Yeah! It's so good. (laughs)
- I know, you ate all of mine too.
- I know.
- Are you guys ready to go into your next round?
- Let's do it! - Round two.
- Oh my God, they're cutting up a bunch of meat.
- Just watching this show is so fun.
- This is literally us.
We're giving each other so much crap,
and I'm saying you're pathetic, and you're probably gonna be amazing.
So we're preparing meat, I think. - Oh yes.
- Some sort of main course meat dish.
- (PvF) Grill, sear, smoke, or braise your way into our hearts,
with a carnivorous mean dish that's packed with sizzling charisma,
and a tender embrace.
- I actually have a uh... - (whispers) Tender embrace.
- I've got something up my sleeve that you have no idea about.
It's gonna get me the win.
- I guess we'll just have to see!
- Now they are cooking the meat.
- (Ed) (laughs) The meat.
- God dang it, see.
Grow up!
- (laughs) I can't!
- Where's the beef?
(explosion echoes)
- For my next course, I am sticking with
kind of the Italian theme, I love Italian food,
and I made a lovely creamy Tuscan chicken
and lemon orzo.
- (PvF) This is dish number one. - (Sharon) Okay, ooh.
- (Ed) Mmm. - (PvF) Mmm.
- (Ed) I really smell the tomato in there.
- I do love orzo. - I do too.
- I will say this orzo is a touch glutenous.
- The flavors are light, it's not like too overpowering.
- I wish the sauce on the chicken
had a little more heat.
Like, it's a little one note. - I agree.
- Very light, beautiful, decadent lemon orzo on the plate here.
Very creamy, nicely seared chicken thigh.
Finely chopped fresh basil on top.
Simple, delicious, decadent, gorgeous.
- Please. (laughs) - There's only one...
There's only one person that could do this,
and it's me. Brian wishes he could.
- I don't wish I could, because my entree is better.
- All that said, it's still a really good dish.
- Yes.
- Like, this is a thing that I would wanna come home to and eat.
- Yes. - With some red wine!
I want some wine, why did we not have wine?
- I think you're right, to come home to this dish,
but this isn't what we're looking for.
We're not looking for something that you can come home
and be expected to make. I can make this.
- As a follow up,
I feel like this is a little bit more on the safer side.
- I want the tomato sauce to punch me in the mouth.
- Yeah. - Yeah!
- I mean, my shirt's gonna stay on for this one.
(Sharon laughs) - Oh, okay.
Alright, that was dish number one.
Ready to see dish number two?
- Ready! - Yes.
- Oh my. - Ooh.
- Thank you.
- Look at that beautiful presentation. - That's pretty.
(electricity crackles)
- Okay, so initially, this looks like a regular bowl of ramen.
It's not, again, we're doing Asian fusion.
This is going to be ramen al pastor.
- (Ed) This is very beautiful. - (Sharon) Yeah, that is pretty.
- Mmm. - Mmm, I love the smells.
Like, I don't even have to really lean into it,
like, you can smell it coming in.
- Mm-hmm.
- I've got a beautiful al pastor that I have gotten
from a taco truck that's by my house.
I know you're asking hey, why didn't you make your own al pastor?
Because they're better than me at it.
We're gonna do that right over here on the side.
We're gonna add in just a little bit of extra fresh pineapple,
just to add a little bit of extra sweetness,
because we're gonna have some spicy in it.
- I'm gonna have to take some of that out.
- Ooh, woah. You're gonna take that out.
Don't eat that. Don't eat that, Sharon! (laughs)
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And then we have, basically like a hot pepper bomb,
and them some pickled onions along with habaneros.
- I'm bad with spice, so we'll see how this goes.
- Woo!
- I'm gonna have to just take that out.
- That's got a kick.
- This side feels like Mexico. - Another fusion?
- It's kind of like an al pastor, almost.
- I love when pineapple is included in.
It works so well.
- What kind of noodles are these?
- Long curly ones. (Ed laughs)
- Got a very... - I will tell you.
Woah!
The meat is done really well. - I'm a little scared.
- The noodles are good. - Is that habanero?
- It's all good. - Hot, hot!
- I will say the noodles are a nice firmness.
It is a little spicy for me, but I love spicy.
- I think if they turned down the spice.
(Ed laughs)
The dish works really well. Okay.
- Like this is enjoyable to me, like this heat is enjoyable to me.
- But you also eat the punishment food when you're not supposed to.
- Yeah. (laughs) - So. (laughs)
- I'm a little crazy.
- The other one was a little safe.
- Yes, exactly. - This is bold.
- I'm starting to sweat in here, ooh!
- I mean, this is gonna make me take off my clothes,
but that's for a different reason. (laughs)
- To your point, Nicole, do we reward the safe good,
or do we reward, you know, really going for it.
- Are we ready to vote?
- Yes! - Yep.
- Locked in answers. - Locked in!
- Locked and loaded.
- Alright, bring in the chefs!
- Thank you guys.
Some of us are a little hot.
Uh, whose dish was whose?
- So my dish is the dish in front of you.
It's one of my favorite dishes,
I've been making it since I was a kid.
It's a ramen dish, but I did, again, a fusion with al pastor pork,
so I also gave you some pickled red onion.
- Some habanero pickled red onion.
- Yeah, yeah, I did. - That was hiding in there.
- It was a cool experience in like the fusion of flavors.
- (Brian) Thank you.
- But definitely a little too much heat.
- The radishes were a little bitter.
You had the sweetness from the pineapple,
the saltiness from the al pastor.
- Mm-hmm. - And I just feel like
there's a lot going on in the bowl,
and that's a very good representation of like an entree,
like that's what I'm looking for.
- I, on the other hand, went the safe way.
I did a creamy tomato basil chicken with lemon orzo,
and I did that, although it was safe, and not as experimental as Brian,
I love Italian food, that is where my heart lies.
- It was very homey. That's exactly it, yeah.
- Yeah, that's exactly what she said.
- Yeah, it was safe, but it was very good.
So I felt like it was a little too safe,
compared to like how amazing your appetizer was.
- Mm-hmm.
- We're ready! - Ooh!
- (both) Three, two, one!
- What is it?
- Brian eked it out! - Ah!
- Brian wins it two to one. Yeah.
- I wanted something that was out of the box,
like a lot of flavors, and you had so many flavors in this.
- I could not even get to the point where they...
- I get it.
- I don't know what I'm doing,
but I gotta bring it in the final round.
This was a rookie move on my part.
- (PvF) Going into the final round,
you guys are tied, one to one.
This is what decides it all!
- You're an amazing cook, we don't call you Chef Ash for nothing.
- Mm-hmm, right.
- But you doubted me,
and this is the reason why we're here right now.
- (PvF) Actually she didn't doubt you in the slightest.
You just attacked her with no provocation.
- That's true, let's cut to a clip.
Ash is a donut, and when we battle,
I'm taking you down for this one.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- Oh! - Ooh.
I smell dessert!
- No wait. (laughs) No wait.
- ♪ I love dessert ♪ ♪ I love making dessert ♪
- I don't do desserts.
- It's not your, that's not in your bag.
- (PvF) The delightful mischief makers of the culinary world,
desserts give us an orgasmic high with their decadent charm,
but if not balanced correctly,
could lead to an overindulgent catastrophe.
- Don't, I don't do desserts,
but I've got an idea, and I think it's going to work.
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, okay, see. I don't need this.
Okay.
- For their last round, they're doing a dessert battle.
- Ooh yay! - Ooh nice.
- And also remember, whomever loses...
- Mm-hmm.
- Must eat the other one's punishment.
- Oh my gosh, you guys did punishments too?
- All of this is because Brian challenged Ash!
(explosion echoes)
- So for my dessert, I decided to go with
a very lovely, of course, classic Italian panna cotta.
This is a lemon panna cotta that I made a fig butter,
homemade, might I add, not from a taco truck.
Not from a fig truck. It's homemade.
- (Ed) This looks fantastic. - (PvF) This is beautiful.
- (Ed) Let's talk about the presentation.
This is beautiful. - (Sharon) This is so pretty.
- Yeah. - I mean look at this.
- You have the lemon zest, you have the fig.
- You've never had a fig? - You've never had a fig?
- No. Eat the whole thing?
- Yeah.
- Oh yeah.
- I don't know that I like the fig paste on its own.
- Well... - It's meant to be mixed,
now that I've had each. - Yeah.
- Oh!
- Now I see where this is going.
(explosion echoes)
- So we're going to top the panna cotta with the fig butter.
Are you admiring my lovely dessert?
- I am.
- Well, you can also watch me zest this lemon on top of it.
- Of course, garnish it with a fresh fig.
Small sprig of thyme,
because what goes better than lemon and thyme?
Definitely not Chef Ash and Brian.
(Brian sighs)
(fire crackles)
- Yeah, you hit those both together.
- Once you hit those both together. - Mm-hmm.
- It's a whole different game. - It's a whole nother ballgame.
- The fig paste offsets the lemon panna cotta.
- (Sharon) Yeah. - So it's not too sweet.
It's not too tart, it's a very well-balanced dish.
- There really is just so many textures going on here,
which is a lot of fun while you're eating it.
- This is that moment we sit into the right chair.
The perfect fitting jeans, the perfect chair.
- Interesting. It doesn't feel comfortable to me.
It feels like vibrant and sharp,
like I am at like a fancy restaurant in New York.
- Mm-hmm. - In an uncomfortable chair.
- This is very good. - Ed has nothing left in his dish.
- Mm-mm. - (Sharon) Yeah.
- I can't go shirtless, so my sleeves are going up.
- Oh! (both laugh)
- Tearaway shirt? - Swish!
- Oh! - Oh! (laughs)
- Alright, I think we are ready for the second dish!
- Ooh! - This is cute!
(fire crackles)
- Okay, so she was talking about how her dessert is homemade.
So is mine.
This is also a fusion of monkey bread and mango sticky rice.
- (Ed) This smells really good.
- (PvF) Mm-hmm. - (Sharon) Yeah.
- You see the condensed milk. Peaches?
- No. - Oh no, that's not a peach.
- Is it apricot? - No.
Is it a persimmon?
- So we have made a monkey bread
with the mango infused inside, bunches of cinnamon,
bunches of butter, and also, obviously,
for a sticky rice, condensed milk.
There it is, oh yeah, buddy.
Trust me, it's game.
- I remember making that when I was about seven years old.
- Ah! (laughs)
(electricity crackles)
- Mmm, this is really good.
- It's very comforting. - It is very comforting.
- It feels almost like I'm eating a churro.
- But the reverse. - Oh yeah.
- Where the other one made me kind of uncomfortable.
- Mm-hmm.
- This makes me comfortable. - Yeah, this is very comforting.
- This is my cozy chair!
- This is difficult, actually.
- This is really hard. - These are both like really good.
- They're very good. - Mm-hmm.
It also sort of feels like pull apart.
- Almost like a cinnamon roll.
- It feels like a southern biscuit dish.
- It's also just like, done like just right.
- This is tough.
- Okay, alright, our answers are locked in.
- Alright!
Oh, that's rude. - That's rude!
- I'm changing my answers to both you guys are losers.
- Yeah! - Why?
- 'Cause look at you coming in with a glass of wine.
- Oh, you could keep it, it's cheap.
(group laughs)
- The dish in front of you is mine.
It was once again, another Asian fusion.
It was a combination of monkey bread and sticky mango rice.
- Oh, mango! - Oh!
- Oh it was, okay. - How did we miss that?
- We couldn't figure out the fruit.
- Yeah. - How did we miss mango?
- We thought it was a persimmon. - Mango, I know!
- The entree that I gave you, I wanted to make sure
that my dessert was sweet enough to kind of counterbalance that.
- And I made the lemon panna cotta with fig butter,
garnished with lemon zest, a fig, and of course, some thyme.
- You guys both really killed it.
- I killed this too.
- (laughs) Oh my God, yeah. They're gone.
- I devoured it. They were both really good.
This was actually really difficult.
- How are you feeling?
- Terrified.
- I felt pretty confident about mine.
- Okay, three, two, one!
♪ (upbeat fanfare) ♪ - Oh!
- Oh! - What?
- You guys both did a great job.
- (Ed) Yeah. - (PvF) Yeah.
- You could be very proud of yourselves, but...
- Good game. - Oh yeah.
- Chef Ash should be a little prouder. - Seriously.
(laughs) - Oh, 100%.
- Ooh! - I got a punishment for you.
- Ooh. - Oh no!
- I got a punishment for any of you if you would like to try it?
- No! - No!
- I will eat the punishment. - I'm sure, Ed, my buddy.
- It's the chef's creation, I have to eat it.
- (Sharon) I won't.
- Alright Brian, why don't you take a seat?
- I think Brian and Ed can enjoy the punishment, right?
- Yeah, let's go find some wine.
- Okay! - Let's go find some wine!
- Alright boys, I call this Chef Ash's demon wings.
- They're as black as your soul.
- (coughs) Oh my God.
- I think Brian knows what's in that!
- This is gonna be really spicy, now I'm like do I wanna do this?
- It's not the spice that I'm worried about.
Just a hint of the bottom of a dumpster?
♪ (tense music) ♪
- (coughs) Agh!
- ♪ The moon hits your eye ♪ - Stop it!
- ♪ Like a big pizza pie ♪ ♪ That's amore ♪
- Stop it! - Oh!
- Thank you!
- Ugh. - Ugh!
(screams)
You thought my ramen was hot!?
- Yes!
- Oh God!
- This is what happens when you mess with Chef Ash!
Okay, what is worse, is it the spice or the durian?
- Yes!
- (Sharon) Has it cured you of eating the punishment for no reason?
- No. (both laugh)
- Thank you guys so much for watching
this awesome Shokugeki episode between me and Bri-Bri.
- Hah!
- Let us know who else you wanna see duel in the future
in the comments down below,
and of course, follow all of our social media on Instagram and TikTok.
- Peace. (Ed grunts)
Can I be a judge next time?