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Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

ebiros2 I'm sorry to see this series go away, but I'm eternally grateful to Anthony Bourdain, and the Travel Channel for creating this series. This is one of the (if not the) best cultural food program ever created. It's fun and educational at the same time, and certainly as good of a guide for travel destination as any.Anthony Bourdain brings humor to the story at the expense of his own pride, but is a gracious host to others who appear on his show. He's a good role model on how to be a good host, and a guest at the same time.The program also showed that there are some food that're worth traveling to eat. If I'm traveling to those countries, I'd definitely would make plans to experience the gastronomic delight featured on some of the episodes.There aren't any bad episodes in this series, but some episodes had more significant impact from a personal point of view. Needless to say that this series is highly recommended for would be travelers to the featured destinations, but is also highly recommended just for its pure entertainment values.

xylokopos He certainly is no Ustinov or Michael Palin, but Bourdain is a better travel show host than the legion of other generic hosts at TLC - you know the type, everything is exciting, everything tastes great, all the locals are fantastic, blahblahblah. He has no apparent interest in the history or architecture or archeology of the places he visits, but then again his focus is the food and one could say that he is more than gracious and humble when it comes to local fare. Seriously, some of the stuff he has eaten so as to not offend his hosts, haunt me to this day and would make Bear Grylls start dry heaving. Unwashed warthog anus, anyone? The Romania episode that seems to be attracting a lot of hate, is an instant TV classic of the highest order, if you can't find surreal humour and travel madness in it, you are dead inside. "Entertaining and feeding the tourists" is a racket in every country - you feel the need to protest but you know it's true.Antony Bourdain gets it. He has a gig where he is getting paid to stuff his face with food and get hammered on the local hooch, the man is a chef and not an ambassador or an Anthropology Ph.D. Not all his insights are hilarious and yes, it is hard to produce decent commentary when you are hungover, but seriously people, some episodes and observations are pure gold.To better understand where Bourdain is coming from, read "Kitchen Confidential", you will not regret it.

Syl Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations is a rare show that combines both traveling and restaurants which happen to be two of my favorite things. This travel channel show goes all over the map literally judging by the locations listed here. He was recently in Chicago. Since Bourdain is bred New Yorker but raised in urban Jersey, he doesn't put Chicago down at all. He always praises locations like Chicago. For example, he goes to China and claims that he could spend an eternity trying to show the various, unique cooking styles of the Chinese. He was quite complimentary and enjoyed his visit in China just as he does everywhere. He meets with friends and goes to the off the tourist track to find the restaurants where there are usually local charms. You won't find them to have valet parking or formal attire. Anthony shows the culture and the cuisine in his travels whether it's Jersey, New York, Chicago, China, or elsewhere. I have enjoyed watching him and his friends chow down on a variety of foods.

bregund For some reason, somebody thought it would be a good idea to film Anthony Bourdain traveling around the world eating different kinds of food. Sounds interesting, buy why AB? He has zero charisma, and the personality and mannerisms of an angry teenager. On last night's show he was in New Zealand "helping" to catch, kill, and prepare a wild boar. Hell, I'd love to do that. During the hunt, AB was as nervous as a schoolgirl, wringing his hands, screaming, and running down the hill every time the boar even snorted. He's in terrible shape, wheezing and puffing like an old steam engine. I notice they don't show him smoking any more. He had a terrible rapport with the locals, putting them down, making all kinds of snarky wise-ass comments. In every scene, even when someone is explaining something to him, he stares open-mouthed into the distance, totally ignoring them. As if this isn't bad enough, the production values are terrible, the camera tilts all over the place, never staying still for even one moment. Okay, during action sequences (such as when AB runs away screaming like a little girl), this is to be expected, but when they're all sitting around eating pavlova, why doesn't the goddam camera stay still?!?@(? This show takes something wonderful like killing and cooking your own food and fills it with such a pessimistic cynicism that it's unpleasant to watch. New Zealand is a wonderful place, but AB makes it look as much fun as a trip to the dentist. Yuck, I hate this show.