and its capitol, chengdu.g skyline, it hasn't lost its deep culinary roots and traditions. >> man: heart. >> anthony: and i figured if i'm going back to sichuan i should bring a friend. someone unused to the, how shall i say, level of heat commonly found in the food here. someone who's never been to china before and is unused to its ways. i'm talking, of course, about chef eric ripert, of such three-star michelin restaurants as new york's le bernardin. so, welcome to china, eric. >> eric: thank you. >> anthony: first time to the mainland? >> eric: yes, and i'm very surprised already about, uh, what i see in the city here. i was expecting, like, uh, kind of a gigantic chinatown that we have in new york. >> anthony: that's some racist shit right there, i'm telling you. >> eric: no, very surprising the streets, they're very clean, just, it almost looks like a european city. >> anthony: except for the air. the air quality, i mean, maybe you've noticed that haze -- >> eric: yeah, it's like a -- >> anthony: that's n

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never been to chengdu and so coming back it was like, "let's go to chinatown and try to find placesevery day." ♪ >> anthony: pork dumplings in chili oil, start the fire. oh man, they're slippery. >> stephanie: you got it. >> anthony: yeah. >> peter: you know why the chopstick is thin, it's not thick and fat you can just do this. >> stephanie: i thought you're not supposed to do that? peter, you're suppose to help me know what's faux pas. >> anthony: yeah, so happy. one of my favorite dishes in the world, anywhere, mapo doufu. yes, a tofu dish, stippled heavily with pork and a burny numbing nine and a half week style exercise in sadomasochism that will start you thinking some deeply disturbing thoughts. do you know mapo doufu, is it because it looks like spotted grandmother or did spotted pot marked grandmother create the dish. >> peter: both. >> anthony: both. >> peter: yes. >> anthony: all right. >> stephanie: my mouth's a little on fire right now, i think the rice came at the right time. >> peter: yes. sounds like we are suffering but actually it's delicious. yeah, anthony, try so

the baby pandas, aged one to four months, were all born at the chengdu research base for giant panda breeding. thanks for joining us. the next wakeup is tomorrow morning >>> i'm chris wallace. with new reports trump may have paid no federal income taxes for years, he and clinton plot their strategies for the campaign's final five weeks. >> the clintons are the past. we will be the very bright and clean future. >> trump threatens to go after bill clinton's sex scandal. >> impeachment for lying. remember that? impeach. >> and doubles down on attacking of former miss universe. >> a lot of things are coming out about her. i'm not going to say anything. i couldn't care less. >> we'll talk with new jersey governor chris christie, a top adviser, about trump's controversial comments and how it affects his standing with women. >>> then, hillary clinton takes