photo courtesy eater.com, via Food NetworkAs mentioned earlier today, Tilth chef Maria Hines took down Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto in the Iron Chef America battle Pacific cod last night. And that’s all well and good. But there are some things that simply can not be done justice by words alone. Sometimes you just need to see pictures. And that snap above? That’s Morimoto’s version of fish and chips.No, really. It is.When I wrote the original piece about Hines’s victory, I said, “Fish and chips paired with cod chowder. Sounds pretty straightforward, right? Yeah, watch it in re-runs if you didn’t see it last night.” The reason for that was because I couldn’t find a picture of it myself.Well, thanks to Eater.com, now I have one. They, too, were bewildered by the little diorama chef Morimoto had made for his fish and chips and chowder presentation. As were the judges. And everyone watching at home.Still, you’ve got to give ol’ MM credit for his originality, right? And what the snap above shows are chips made out of pounded and fried cod, given a little chair to sit on (because…they were tired?), a square bread bowl literally branded with Morimoto’s initials and filled with cod chowder to be drunk like sake, and then a piece of fried cod set on top because the dish didn’t already have enough cod in it. Or something like that. And the lime? Well, I think that’s just a lime. But who knows. Maybe it was made out of cod, too.Frankly, the more I look at it. the more I kinda like it. The next thing I want Morimoto to do is open a restaurant (across the street from my house) where everything he serves comes in some kind of diorama-form. Like cheeseburgers served on tiny pedestals with crowds of dill pickle worshipers bowing down before them, or a barnyard set constructed entire out of pork products.