sha la la la la. sha la la la la la. sha la la la la. sha la la la la la la. >> do you smell that? motorbike exhaust. fish sauce. incense. the faraway smell of something is. is that pork grilling over charcoal? in vietnam? it could be no place else. motto. non non piu dingding. >> listen to me, listen to me. >> there is no other way to see this city. hanoi, than from a motorbike or a scooter. to do otherwise would be to miss it all. >> whoa! >> it is one of the great pleasures of my life to join the river of people rushing through the streets. >> my heart. is. >> in vietnam. it grabs you and doesn't let you go. once you love it, you love it forever. i've been coming here since 2000. the first time i'd been to this part of the world, and it's held a special place in my heart and my imagination. since i keep coming back, i have to. >> michael rampino vietnam has changed since last time i was here. >> it's changing every minute. but some things for now anyway, remain the same. important things are like this stuff that's going to be good. bjÖrn hÖcke first meal in hanoi and it's someth

sha la la la la. sha la la la la la. sha la la la la. sha la la la la la. >> whiskey for a farmer. oh, that's good. >> it's no fun to kill us. >> they make more than 100 bottles a day. so 30,000 bottles. that's a lot. that's a lot of. did i? did i do that right? yeah. or have i had too many whiskey whiskeys? >> how did this happen? how did i get here coming into focus. the man across the table. he looks familiar. maybe if i can remember who he is, it'll be a clue as to where i am okay. right. andy. andy ricker, the white guy who cooks awesome thai food. >> it was a pretty spicy. put that in there, too. >> pok pok in portland. restaurants in new york. andy's made a name for himself, faithfully reproducing the cuisine of northern thailand. the good stuff comes from places. so, like here. the rice country. chiang mai province. in this part of the world, you live and die by the harvest. thai food is intensely regional and northern thailand in particular. has many distinctive features. this is a world of fresh, delicious, spicy, meaty, salty, sour, sweet, bitter, often with a just picke

sha la la la la. sha la la la la la. sha la la la la. sha la la la la la la. >> berlin is never berlin. they say. pounded into rubble by allied bombs and russian artillery at world war two. surrounded, then hacked into during the cold war, then reunited and reborn. berlin is a city of ghosts, an ever evolving space where memories and new ideas live side by side. in between and after the wars, berlin has always been a place where you find what you want or what you think you need, what you can't get back home. a place where fantasies could come true. it's all here if you know where to look. it's no coincidence. it's a natural progression, really, that berlin's nightlife is excessive. completely and proudly uninhibited and never ending. there are clubs for everybody, and many are friendly towards whatever your personal lifestyle choices might be. club culture is the pride of berliners and draws millions of thrill seekers from all over the world. it is notoriously difficult to navigate, however, and finding the right place with the right mix

sha la la la la. sha la la la la la. sha la la la la sha la la la la la la. la. >> what is it exactly about this place? over the past century, the system here, the tradition, whatever it is that took hold here, churned out a tremendous number of the world's most important chefs. khuza'a chapelle troisgros, bocuse. and as importantly, influenced nearly all the rest of them. why, leon? why is this such a gastronomic capital? i mean, why bocuse here? why to grow here? why all of these great chefs? >> because leon is it's really positioned between the north and the south, right? >> you are locked in between burgundy and rhone. >> leon. it's the second largest city in france, situated in the southeast of the country, midway between the alps and the east and mediterranean to the south. >> this was also a bottleneck when cars became the mode of transportation. >> it goes right to the heart of the idea of the michelin driving the destination on the way to the completely out of that system came chefs like this guy danud like prince or madonna. he needs really only one

sha la la la la. sha la la la la la. sha la la la la. ha la la la la la. >> are the storybook kingdom of granada. one of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain and one of the most beautiful. granada is tucked against the sierra nevada mountains of andalusia in southern spain. it's not like barcelona. it's not like san sebastian. it ain't madrid. any reasonable, sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain. they're going to fall in love. otherwise, there's something deeply wrong with you. spain's the sort of place that never really made any sense, anyway. and in the very best possible way, this is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine, with traditional tapas, christianity and islam, traded places, shared space, and the effects and influences of all those things are right here to see you could almost look back through time and through the mists of history, see the phoenicians marching

sha la la la la. sha la la la la la sha la la la la. ha la la la la la la. >> in yangon, capital city of myanmar. it's dark. blackouts are frequent, with the ancient power grid. what sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie yellow orange hue. for almost a hundred years under british rule, this was rangoon in 1948, after helping the british fight off the japanese and with a new taste for self-determination, the country gained independence after a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. elections. they came and went. the results ignored opposition, punished or silenced entirely. burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once served as a colonial policeman, where he'd first grown to despise the apparatus of a security state, became more orwellian than even he could have imagined. a nation, or even having an opinion, could be dangerous. >> i am very honored to be here at this university, and to be the first president of the united states of america to visit your country. >> morning in yangon

and colder sha la la la la. sha la la la la la. sha la la la la. sha la la la la la la. >> it's the spicy sensualist heartland. of all the things i love about china. the collision between very, very old and very new. an exploding middle class. a lot of history and food that can burn you down to a charred, smoking little stump. sichuan province, located in the southwest of china, over a thousand miles from beijing, a region so fertile and lush that it's been referred to as china's breadbasket. and its capital, chengdu, despite its ever growing skyline, it hasn't lost its deep culinary roots and traditions. 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 bernadin. so welcome to china, eric. thank you. first time to mainland. >> yes. and i'm very surprised already about what i

sha la la la la la sha la la la la. a la la la la la la. >> it takes a special breed to live in a province like quebec. it gets cold in winter and winters are long. it takes a special kind of person for whom frozen rivers, icy wind whipped streets deep, seemingly endless forests are the norm. i will confess my partisanship up front i love montreal. it is my favorite place in canada. the people who live there are tough, crazy and i admire them for it. toronto. vancouver i love you, but not like montreal. why? i shall explain. all will be revealed in the meantime, check this guy out. what's the post office motto? neither rain nor sleet nor driving snow, nor plague of locusts. prevent the mail carrier from delivering my junk mail here in montreal. the simple task of delivering the mail in winter comes with its own set of hurdles. icy hurdles. i got to ask, do you have special equipment for this? we got, like, slip on boots. >> we do have leather boots in the rain. sorry. when it gets icy with the spikes on them. and they ga

jun xiang la la la la. sha la la la la la. sha la la la la sha la la la la la la. >> this is the restaurant masa in new york city, tucked away on the fourth floor of the time warner center on columbus circle. it is america's most expensive restaurant. dinner here costs around $600 per person before sakÉ or extra pieces of the most outrageously high quality tuna on the planet. the raw ingredients are unparalleled, often flown in from japan or grown specially to this man's specifications. this is masa takayama to call him america's most respected sushi chef would be an injustice, as he is more than that, much more. what was it about him that set him apart? took him from a rather bleak farming community in rural japan to become first, the toast of los angeles and later the king of new york. it is a fascinating story. kanazawa is the capital of ishikawa prefecture, on the west coast of honshu island along the sea of japan. it's known for its untouched by time traditional districts. one of the few cities in japan left relatively int

la la la la. sha la la la la la sha la la la la. sha la la la la la la. >> what do you need to know about tokyo? deep, deep waters. the first time i came here, it was like it was a transformative experience. it was powerful and violent experience. it was as if it was just like taking acid for the first time. meaning? what do i do now? i see the whole world in a different way. um, i often compare the experience of going to japan for the first time and coming to tokyo for the first time to what? what eric clapton and pete townshend must have gone through. uh, the reigning guitar gods of of of england. what they must have gone through the week that jimi hendrix came to town. you hear about it, you go see it. a whole a window opens up and a whole new thing. and you think, what does this mean? what do i have left to say? what do i do now? that welcome to tokyo. you are not invited. this is the other tokyo. 12 hour flight and i'm baked. no sleep. might as well must go out. the kabukicho district near my hotel has the advantage of being whe

la la la la. sha la la la la la sha la la la la. sha la la la la la. >> the french alps. lovely italians on one side. but the terrifying swiss on the other. they're close. too close for me. a man with an erotic childhood. fear of alpine vistas, yodeling, even cheese with holes in it. but my friend eric requires payback. i have, in recent adventures with him, been unkind. he grew up in mountains like this. he's an expert skier. this is, like home to him. so i thought it was only fair that he get a chance at payback. i am not a graceful skier, but i am an enthusiastic one. and that's what you come here for in winter and early spring. some of the best slopes on earth. also cheese. apparently. lots of cheese. >> i just think you size. that's okay. >> bend your knees in the front. >> i do think, yeah, they feel good. that feels good. yeah, yeah. you love to ski in one in the pyrenees, right? yeah. i ski in new jersey. >> that is the same. >> yes, that's what i always say you thought you were going to the moon or what? hey, warm feet are important. nothing is more demoralizing

sha la la la la. sha la la la la la. sha la la la la. sha la la la la la la. >> if you've been to france, chances are you haven't been here. france's second largest city. the oldest city in france. it sits right by the mediterranean. the food is famously good, yet it's a victim of bad reputation. bad history. marseille, as it turns out, exactly the kind of place i like. but this is a buddy picture, isn't it? eric ripert is the chef of the three star le bernardin in new york, the chevalier of france. i think that means he's some kind of knight or something. and my friend, this causes him some problems. he, i like to remind him, has a reputation to protect. i do not welcome to marseille. yeah. you've never been here? never. how is this even possible? you grew up. how far from here? >> like 50 miles? 100 miles? >> 100. >> you grow up 100 miles from here. what prevented you from coming to this clearly beautiful city? because it's clearly beautiful. >> it's a fantastic city. i mean, it's beautiful. i agree with you. but it has the reputation o

la la la la la. la la la la la la la la la la la la la. sha la la la la la la. >> twas the week before christmas. >> when all through the house. >> not a creature was stirring. >> not even a mouse. actually, that's not true at all. >> metro manila bustling, sprawling southeast asian capital of the philippines, home to somewhere between 12 to 20 million people. >> the world's most densely populated city. i light a candle, put the. >> presents round the tree. >> but it is christmas. the sound of carols fills the air. the twinkly, festive wonderland where the mostly catholic population take their holiday season very seriously. merry christmas because filipinos are, for reasons i have yet to figure out, probably the most giving of all people on the planet think i'm talking keep watching. >> i feel remember how bad it could get. with the mithril little. let's go. oh. >> good afternoon everyone. we're the band called keystone. yeah. two santa cruz wharf randi kaye. >> come on. >> ofw stands for overseas filipino worker, and they are one of the phili

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