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 places >> 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 disturng 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 some of this, my

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southern and eastern parts of china and taiwan we've got quite a bit of rain here stretching from chengdu through toward shanghai across indochina scattering of showers her noise should be largely dry monday very hot and humid and it's looking somewhat better i think for me i'm on the share right to be dying away thank goodness or it could well be just temporary across southeastern parts of asia some really heavy rain across parts of borneo at the moment but looks as though for much of java should be dry and bright with highs of thirty two in jakarta. every year in pakistan hundreds of women are victims of so-called honor killing one on one east searches for the truth in a case that exposes the growing clash between all beliefs and modern life and how does iraq. i mean this is different. but there are some i think for some of this very rare. thing it's how you approach a vigil that is a certain way to come to. the out. time to recap our headlines this hour syrian state media is reporting government forces have taken control of the town and from rebels in the southern province rebels are t

concentrating still in the southeast corner possibly in the high ground towards of it means myanmar border chengdu is dry and quite warm at thirty three degrees we see heavy rain recently in the philippines more heavy showers are still to come mostly a gap south of that until we pick up the maybe surprising green in borneo silly way sea and down in java not huge frequent showers but a few. the closer you. are watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you this hour donald trump and kemp have signed with the u.s. president described as a comprehensive joint talking that as they wrapped up their summit in singapore both the u.s. and north korea are expressing optimism about the outcome the document includes a call for the completely nuclearization of the korean peninsula after the summit trump said the u.s. would halt a joint military exercises with south korea calling them provocation he said his talks with him had been honest direct and productive but that they'll need a second meeting and south korean president and said trump and him show courage and determination and he's hoping the sum

southeastern corner there's a lot of takes of the high ground and to the borders looks as if you're in chengdu honner shanghai where you might expect right this time the year it's nice and fine and dry said humid but about the thirty degree mark is clearly a lot of a lot of action further south of taiwan and over the philippines of thousands of very heavy rain recently overdue song it could be repeated showery feel like we have a further south than that and there's a hint here where more than a hint is evidence of significant showers and slow way sea which could be in the repeated forecasts are something born here and even catching parts of java and southern sumatra with a shot to the north of that k.l. for example mostly it's a cloudy picture though because a lot of the more shows coming out in the monsoon trough which doesn't just affect john it also affects india and bangladesh a looks as though the concentration is going to stay in the east this is a bangladesh total the last two days three hundred seventy three millimeters so already coast landslides of course and that's the concentration

southeastern corner there's a line to take the high ground and to the border this looks as if you're in chengdu hari where you might expect right on the. but about the thirty degree mark is clearly a lot of a lot of action for the south of taiwan and over the philippines if it was a very heavy rain recently overdue song it could be repeated showery feel like we have a further south than that and there's a hint here well more than a hint as evidence of significant shazahn soloway see which could be in the repeated forecasts or sudden borneo and even catching parts of java and sun and sumatra with two to the north of that k.l. for example mostly it's a cloudy picture there because a lot of the more shows coming out in the monsoon trough which doesn't just affect john it also affects india and bangladesh it looks as though the concentration is going to stay in the east this is a bangladesh total the last two days three hundred seventy three millimeters so already coast landslides of course and that's the concentration i'm afraid of the next couple days was some rain in the west and guess. the weat

across china and taiwan you can see we've got quite a lot of heavy rain across more western areas from chengdu the north through the border into northern parts of vietnam so some heavy rain is still likely here still plenty of showers affect see me amar coming in in the southwest the flow off the bay of bengal and those who'd like to continue as we head through into sunday some heavy showers at times also extending to bangladesh nice and states of india meanwhile we've got rain coming into hong kong which will help to keep the temperatures down a little bit in very close to record values here but thirty three is the forecast nice on down into southeastern parts of asia and you can see this circulation of low pressure chance stands a chance of turning into a tropical disturbance as such but i think what we will find is that general circulation will enhance the low the shite to vittie across cambodia sent from southern parts of vietnam and indeed across much of the philippines further towards the south where the conditions for much of borneo looking ok java bali all fine at this time of year and

the case all the way down to the southwest as you had some flooding all the way down towards the chengdu more heavy showers here long line of very heavy rain there as you can see for saturday wet weather to into the far south hong kong thirty three celsius is hot issue but it sticky is very uncomfortable and the showers long spells of rain they are set to continue as we go on through the weekend to sunday another wet day for many many wets across western parts of india as we would expect in the southwest the monsoon loss of cloud showing up here lots of cloud two in the other side of the goal once again it's a medium are pushing up into bangladesh the fall northeast of india little changing conditions but do notice too we got some showers just around the northeast of india up towards kolkata pushing up a little further north which in this particular temperatures back in new delhi to around thirty three celsius the cooler in karate too with a high of thirty four. a new series of rewind can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and bring you updates on the best of. this. one continues w