Fighting Foodons

Fighting Foodons
Cover of the first volume that features Chase, Kayla, Pie-Tin, Oslo, Fried Ricer, Omelet, Hot Doggone-It, and a Burnt Meatball.
格闘料理伝説ビストロレシピ (Kakutō Ryōri Densetsu Bistro Recipe)
Genre	Fantasy
Manga
Written by	Naoto Tsushima [ja]
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Comic BonBon
Demographic	Children
Original run	1998 – 1999
Volumes	2
Anime television series
Directed by	Tetsuo Yasumi
Produced by	Eizo Kondo, Wataru Tanaka, Masahiro Kon, Hideki Kama, Masaki Kobayashi
Written by	Taku Kadoya
Music by	Izumu/Geminiart High Quality
Studio	Group TAC
Licensed by	NA: Discotek Media
Original network	NHK-BS2
English network	AU: Network 10 CA: Fairchild TV US: 4KidsTV
Original run	December 11, 2001 – June 25, 2002
Episodes	26[1] (List of episodes)

Fighting Foodons, known in Japan as Bistro Recipe (格闘料理伝説ビストロレシピ, Kakutō Ryōri Densetsu Bisutoro Reshipi, "Martial Arts Cooking Legend Bistro Recipe"), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoto Tsushima [ja] and serialized in Comic BonBon in 1998. It was adapted into an anime television series which aired on NHK-BS2 satellite channel from December 11, 2001 to June 25, 2002. It also received two Game Boy Color video games released in 1999 in Japan, as well as a WonderSwan game.

In the United States the anime was dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment in cooperation with Enoki Films; Enoki Films held the license and contracted the dubbing to 4Kids. This show originally aired on the FoxBox on September 14, 2002, (later known as 4Kids TV) and was discontinued from their lineup on August 30, 2003.^[2] The Chinese version was premiered as Kung Fu Snacks (功夫小食神 Gōngfu xiǎo shíshén) and it aired on TVB Jade in Hong Kong. It had also aired on Fairchild TV in Canada starting on May 22, 2005.

The series was released on DVD by Discotek Media on April 25, 2017.^[3]

Its English dub's theme song is based on Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.