The Chef Mug

This cartoonish little cutie is a Benihana Tiki Mug of a Benihana Chef! Benihana's highly-skilled teppanyaki chefs slice and dice, and toss and shake your meal in such a way as to "eatertain" you while you're enjoying traditional Japanese cooking using American favorites like steak, chicken, seafood and vegetables. Benihana pioneered the communal dining concept in the early 1960's where up to eight people are seated around a steel hibachi grill table waiting anxiously for their personal show to begin. Currently, Benihana holds the record for the longest-running dinner show in the world! For some reason this mug is commonly referred to as the Magic Chef mug, and there is one variation of this mug, a more realistic-looking Standing Chef mug, and it looks to us like he'd hold more drink than this cartoonish one, which would make him the better deal, drink-wise! UPDATE: Hey, get this, the Magic Chef is now a celebrity! Yes, it's true, we recently spotted one of these Chef mugs listed on eBay as having been used as a prop on the Reba television show! Way to go, little chef dude! Gee, we hope this doesn't go to his enormous head — next thing you know, he's going to want his own cooking show on the Food Channel!