Anthony Bourdain

Myanmar

Tony met with culinary writer Ma Thanegi. They had pig’s-head salad with Kaffir lime leaf, long-bean salad with sesame and fish sauce, pennywort-leaf salad, a salad of Indian-style samosa.

Yangon, Myanmar

Tony had prawn curry here and cringed at the local cultural norm of making kissing noises to call a waiter over.

Yangon, Myanmar

"Once one of the swankest department stores in Rangoon," says Tony. "Now people live here."

Yangon, Myanmar

Tea shop where Tony had morning tea with U Thiha Saw, a journalist. They had the hot black tea with a dollop of sweetened condensed milk and a fish soup.

Yangon, Myanmar

Tony had a meal with Philippe Lajaunie, restaurateur, former owner of Brasserie Les Halles. They had chicken necks and cold beer. 

Myanmar

Tony visited this town during Thadingyut, the Full Moon festival celebrated by Buddhists at the end of October. He ate street food and watched the human-powered ferris wheels

Yangon, Myanmar

Not sure if this location still exists, the CNN site says it is on Saya San Road, but not showing up on the map. Tony met with San Zarni Bo and had fermented tea leaf salad, which is served with peanuts, lime, and chilies.

Myanmar

Tony and Philippe traveled on a train through the Burmese country to Bagan. They bought snacks from locals at the train station. The train ride was very bumpy.

Myanmar

Tony ate at a small food stand near the Bagan Palace ruins and called it the best restaurant in the country so far. He had chicken curry and raved about all the small accompaniments served.

Myanmar

Tony and Philippe visited the palace ruins and admired the structures

Yangon, Myanmar

Tony met with a local punk band at this night market.

Yangon, Myanmar

Tony and the punk band ate barbecue at this stand in the night market.

Los Angeles, United States

Tony and Roy Choi viewed Koreatown from the roof of this building, and talked about the 1992 Rodney King riots that took place below.

Los Angeles, United States

Tony ate with Roy Choi and Roy Kim, the grandson of the founder of the restaurant. They had banchan, bulgogi, sliced ribeye, kimchi bokumbap (fried rice)

Los Angeles, United States

Roy Choi's Korean taco truck. Tony had the Kogi short rib taco, a Korean barbecue short rib on corn tortilla with salsa roja, cilantro, and onion, slaw, and a chili soy vinaigrette.

Los Angeles, United States

At the time of filming, this was a food truck, but has since been made into a brick & mortar establishment. Roy Choi took Tony there and he ate a Kimchi Spam Bowl.

Los Angeles, United States

Former site of Roy Choi's A-Frame restaurant.

Los Angeles, United States

After meeting at David Choe's secret studio where David painted Tony's portrait, the two went to Sizzler to eat. David introduced Tony to his creation, the Salad bar meatball taco.

Los Angeles, United States

Tony had curried goat, samosas, tandoori chicken, fish curry with chilis in this area called Little Bangladesh

Los Angeles, United States

Tony and Roy had an Aloha burger, Spam Little Big Bite sandwich, and Halo-Halo, which Tony described as an “oddly beautiful” dessert with  sweet red beans, white beans, red and green jello, young white coconut, flan, ice cream, and shaved ice.

Los Angeles, United States

David Choe bought his parents a house in Los Feliz. Tony and David visited the home and Jane Choe, David's mom, cooked for them. She made beef ribs stew, kimchi, chestnut rice, stuffed peppers, seaweed and jellied mung bean, japchae with shiitake, avocado eggrolls, fried squid, potato pancake.

Los Angeles, United States

Tony and David Choe had Wang mandu king dumplings (with pork and kimchi inside), mandu dumplings (smaller with thinner dumping skins), and sweet dumplings.

Los Angeles, United States

Tony and David Choe went to this dive bar that Tony loved.

Los Angeles, United States

Tony and Roy Choi visited this place that Roy said was one of his favorites. They serve a soup called Soon Dubu, described by Tony as "a fiery, tongue-searing, ass-burning tofu soup that will make you forget every bad thing you ever thought about tofu."

Colombia

"On first inspection, this is an airplane boneyard, where unwanted props from Romancing the Stone corrode artfully. But in reality, this sleepy hangar is an important gateway to the more impenetrable parts of the country," Tony says.

Colombia

The plane landed here in Miraflores, a jungle outpost in the southern province of Guaviare in the Amazon Forest Preserve. Tony talked with a guide there about the cocaine trade of the past.

Bogotá, Colombia

A large market, where Tony met with a guide to have some fresh carrot and orange juice. They also ate corn arepas. In the back corner of the fish market, they had Caldo de Costilla, a traditional breakfast soup from the Andean region, which has beef short ribs in a broth with potatoes and scallions.

Bogotá, Colombia

Tony met with Hector Abad, a writer. They ate tamales with chicken and pork belly.

Bogotá, Colombia

Tony met with chef and musician Tomas Rueda, and they had crab salad, handmade pasta, stuffed with labneh cheese with a chorizo sauce; braised osso buco (with beef shank) over vegetables, wine and broth in a wood-fired oven.

Santiago de Cali, Colombia

Tony met with a band called On the Tropica to play tejo, a game involving "alcohol and explosives." They also ate a Colombian picada, "a huge selection of fried pork, pork rib, steak, cassava, potatoes, and deep fried plantain."

Santiago de Cali, Colombia

The Cali version of ceviche: cooked shrimp, slathered in mayonnaise, ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce; rock mollusk with rice; steamed shrimp with green tomatoes; beer; sugar cane (viche), plantains.

Colombia

Tony met Chef Juan Pablo Mayorga in this town in La Guajira. They ate Frichi, a traditional dish from the Wayuu people, includes the offal of the goat. They then rode ATVs.

Colombia

Tony rested on the beach after crashing on his ATV, had beer, and ate at a restaurant called Mar Azul (which I could not find on the map). They had cazuela, which is a fish chowder made with lobster, fish, shrimp, clams, and conch.

Saint-Lambert

Tony visited in the winter time and met up with chefs Fred Morin and David McMillan of Joe Beef. They went ice fishing on the St. Lawrence River, then ate a fancy meal in the small cottage on the ice.

Mirabel, Canada

Tony ate beaver at Chef Martin Picard's home.

Montreal, Canada

Tony watched a game of "shinny hockey," a pickup game of street hockey played on the ice. Meanwhile they ate Choucroute garnie a l'alsacienne (lots of meats and sausages piled on a plate).

Montreal, Canada

Tony, along with chefs Fred Morin and David McMillian, traveled by train to Quebec City. The chefs brought along a gourmet meal including foie gras and truffles.

Quebec, Canada

Old style restaurant. Lots of tableside service including caesar salad, beef tartare, and shrimp cocktail. David McMillian had the filet mignon, Fred had the Scampi Newberg, Tony had the Dover Sole

Quebec, Canada

The restaurant name means "Everything's Cool" in local slang. They had razor clams, a cream of haddock roe, Coqui St. Jacques, terrine of foie gras, head cheese with cassis mustard, truffled sweetbreads, goose hearts persillade, salt cod.

Montreal, Canada

Tony met with journalist Patrick Lagacé at this restaurant (closed in 2016). They discussed "pastagate" which is the scandal that happened when a restaurant got in trouble for using the word "pasta" which is Italian

Montreal, Canada

Open since 1932, Tony had the "special,” a beef bologna and salami sandwich with mustard heated on a sandwich press, an egg cream.

Mirabel, Canada

Tony had a meal here that started with a tower of maple desserts. It had a lot of courses which would be too many to list!

Montreal, Canada

Sister restaurant to Joe Beef. Tony met with the chefs and ate Pakistani food by Chef Omar. "Butter chicken crab; little eggplants braised with anar seeds, pomegranate; mushrooms; rabbit korma; fingerlings with fenugreek and fennel; donkey nahari; goat biryani; and more.

Montreal, Canada

Tony went with the chefs to watch the Montreal Canadiens play the Carolina Hurricanes at the stadium

Morocco

Tony had espresso with Jonathan Dawson, British journalist

Morocco

Restaurant serving tagine. Tony had fresh olives; roasted walnuts; warm bread; tagine with baby shark, calamari, and monkfish with fresh mountain spinach; shark kebabs; strawberries, pine nuts, and honey

Morocco

A cafe serving hashish. "There is one particular cafe in the heart of the kasbah that's drawn in foreign dignitaries, rock stars, aristocrats, and artists since it opened its doors in 1943," Tony explained. Afterward they went directly across the street to a vendor selling spanish omelets filled with potatoes, eggs, ketchup, and mayonnaise.

Morocco

Tony met with photographer Cherie Nutting and went to this outdoor food market. Tony bought fresh goat cheese wrapped in palm leaves and some flatbread for breakfast.