Recently discovered the absolutely awesome and ENTERTAINING AS HECK show KUWAZU GIRAI, a food challenge segment on the Tunnels’ variety show TUNNELS NO MINASAN NO OKAGE DESHITA. Featuring Ishibashi Takaaki and Noritake Kinashi as the dinner hosts, they invite two guests to the “restaurant” who will be served 4 different dishes each. Of the four, however, is a dish that the guest can’t stand, and it’s up to the other participant to guess which one it is by questions and looking at their facial expressions as they eat each plate!
Everyone knows how much I adore actress Aoi Yu, and I was excited to see that the episode featured her against actor Masaki Okada (whom she'd appeared ever so briefly in Honoka'a Boy) whom she had come with to promote their new movie RAIOU.
When you see the entrees Aoi Yu has set up for her meal, among the exotic dishes, the one that sticks out is the Chocolate Fondue. The first thought that comes to mind is that NO ONE would HATE such a delicious treat...but as we were to soon find, that isn't always the case...
As soon as Okada picks the Fondue for Aoi to try, she immediately begins to hem and haw uncomfortably, and begins to have what seems to be a bout of uncontrollable laughter!
Okada and the guys in Tunnels are all perplexed by this sudden wackiness on her part, but she expertly dodges the point by explaining that she's laughing at the tiny Fondue cup that's been presented before her. "My Image of the Fondue Pot was a bit bigger," she laughs, but she can't seem to hide the fact that she's having SOME kind of issue with the Fondue dish!
She puts off partaking of the dish as long as she can, but eventually, she takes a deep breath and , after ever so slightly dipping it in the chocolate, pops it in her mouth. Yu-chan's reaction is immediate and intense:
To which a bemused Okada and Nori-san keenly note: "Well, SOMETHING'S fishy over there!
Alternately dabbing her eyes and covering her mouth, at this point everyone is wondering if she's having a giggle fit or simply doesn't like the dish! Fortunatley for her, the Fondue is the last of the four dishes, and all that's left is for the guessing round
Well, try as she might, she just couldn't divert all that attention off her spectaclar eating fit, so it comes as no surprise when Okada chooses the Fondue as her most hated dish! His reason? "There was something Funny about that." Aoi chooses what she feels is Okada's most hated item, and then both dishes are brought back out to sample one more time!
With an air of resignation, Yu-chan picks up the tongs again, dips the strawberry in the chocolate and prepares to eat it, but not before wiping off most of the chocolate on the side of the bowl, to the laughter of all present!
Once again Aoi's attempting to consume the piece of chocolate covered fruit, and this time, there's no DOUBT in anyone's mind that she clearly doesn't like what she's eating!
AHAHAHAHA! Poor Yu-chan! Furthering her loss, it's announced that this episode (as they all are) is another BATSU game, and so Aoi must go before the camera and perform for them! For her punishment, Aoi pinched her nose and emulated the sound of Super-Mario jumping, a skill we've already seen her enact on her VIP Room segment on Himitsu No Arashi-Chan! HAHAHA
She puts off partaking of the dish as long as she can, but eventually, she takes a deep breath and , after ever so slightly dipping it in the chocolate, pops it in her mouth. Yu-chan's reaction is immediate and intense:
And so it comes as no surprise when she admits defeat mumbling "Mairimashita!"through a mouth full of unwanted chocolate! After she's delicately removed the fruit from her mouth, Takaaki asks her just WHY she doesn't like Fondue, to which a light-headed Aoi-san flatly states for the record, DAIKIRAI!!!!!
