Chef Anthony Bourdain travels the world to visit culinary meccas, sampling dishes and cooking techniques typical of local cuisines.
EPISODE 1
A Taste of Tokyo
The Japanese have a healthy respect for food, which Tony can definitely appreciate; a trip through a market with a sushi chef prepares Tony for his dinner; he also eats a meal with sumo wrestlers.
EPISODE 2
Dining With Geishas
Tony decides to go in search of a more relaxed and traditional Japanese culinary experience in the countryside; he travels to an old-fashioned Japanese inn that specializes in kaiseki cuisine, the ancient tea ceremony and using local ingredients.
EPISODE 3
Cobra Heart: Food That Makes You Manly
Anthony Bourdain travels to Ho Chi Minh for their famous foetal duck egg in a bed of feathers; "flavors of the forest" which includes cobra's heart in blood which will enhance manly qualities.
EPISODE 4
Eating on the Mekong
On the Mekong river in Vietnam, Tony drinks Mekong moonshine with the welcoming owners of a duck farm; although Tony finds his Vietnam experience fascinating, he's not sure that the royal dish "Birds Nest Soup" is all it's cracked up to be.
EPISODE 5
Wild Delicacies
Tony travels to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with a friend; there he explores a unique food culture which is both pleasing to the palette and yet slightly frightening.
EPISODE 6
Eating on the Edge of Nowhere
Tony floats on the heart of darkness river in Cambodia; three soldiers commandeer his boat, but a tasty dinner makes it all fine.
Anthony Bourdain
Maurizio Trombini
Christopher Collins
Lydia Tenaglia
Matthew Barbato
