Outside Iron Chef
Chen is an avid baseball fan and states that it would have been his choice to go professional but opted not to.
Outside of Iron Chef, Chen also runs the Shisen Hanten (四川飯店; lit. "Sichuan restaurant") group of restaurants located in Akasaka, Ikebukuro, and Roppongi in Tokyo, as well as Tokushima city in Tokushima Prefecture; Kure, Hiroshima; Matsuyama, Ehime; and Hakata-ku, Fukuoka. The restaurant was inherited from his father and he is currently the third to run it after his mother took over.
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