This anime was my childhood anime and it is definitely a good classic. It is an exciting adventure of cooking battles. Though reactions can be cheesy and exaggerated, everything made on the show can be made in real life. It is a story about Mao's growth as a chef and the embodiment of the ideals that he was taught. It is very positive and I hope viewers feel the same way too and perhaps a thing or two. There is some humor (though it tends to be Shirou's lecherous attempts) and some good drama going on between the characters. Friendship, rivals, love, fighting the evil, and some good food. The dialogue is well written and the entertainment level was very high for me.

I highly suggest this to those who like food animes and this is one of the good old school animes to watch. (show less)

This animie is a little cheesy but I still like it, I love most things to do with cooking and the over the top corny stuff gives me a nice chuckle. The dialog is typical of this era of animation but the characters are still interesting for the most part and I really got into the show.

However, the current episode 37 on the site the voices for all the characters completely change. New new voices are alright expect that all the young characters, especially the main character, sounds like little kids now and have high whiny voices. I believe the change is because 1-36 are in cantonese and 37, 38 and up are in mandarin. I'm no expert in chinese language though. Personally I much prefer the voices in 1-36, even though I do like the mandarin language and actually had trouble at first listening to cantonese dialect, because they sound more mature and natural. I might hold off on watching the rest of the series to see if anyone uploads the show in the dialect I was first watching the show in. (show less)