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dude was apoplectic and took it as a personal insult.

 

the blame's really on the producers, not the kid.

oh wait, we're not supposed to second-guess the producers too?

 

so he's saying we're not supposed to comment na?

c'mon. that's about as anti-pinoy as you can get!

 

their metaphor just didn't fly.

I've seen more coherent porn movies than this.

:hypocritesmiley:

 

btw, saw the replay yday...and if I'd have to grade it, it's just a bit better than DC's.

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so tell me, if you were the producers, how would you make the episode better?...ditch augusto's issue and harp about some false culinary expert's interests?

 

AB was intrigued on why Augusto would like to come back, him being a Fil-Am who only went to PI once and only for a week?

 

I actually liked the whole episode, save for those bragging rights that the guy with four kitchens was trying to insert...

 

the episode's second half, AB (where he was eating bulalo with augusto) has explained why he went ahead and did this episode , and more so on his blog...

 

augusto's sentiments are very true, about being in the middle, being half-american and half-pinoy...that right there gives him half-an-identity...can't belong anywhere though americans are actually more "welcoming" than his relatives on that dinner table...

 

did the cameras make them shy?...or is it because the relatives don't know Augusto and his family that well?

 

AB realized the truth of this fil-am's issues being a stranger and all (at the dinner table scene) so he brought him along going around eating lechon and so on and eventually finished with a happy ending...

 

bottomline, if not for Augusto, the Philippines won't even be on the series...

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lol ... bourdain wouldve eventually gone to the philippines.... the countless emails wouldve made him go

 

read my earlier post .. he couldve done the traditional No Rez formula.... cultural primer-> street cuisine->traditional cuisine->breakfast-> modern take on the local cuisine-> a meal with the locals ... even augusto's family didnt contribute anything ... the uncle cooked but he never said anything .... look at the Venice episode.. thats a classic no rez episode that worked on all cylinders.... in fact i would even take out agugusto .. get an expat who love the country and get them to show you around

 

the only good introspective that bourdain did was when he and his brother went to south america to follow an ancestor.. that and any new york episode...

 

im tired with this filam identity angst .. like what one poster said .. maybe Oprah will do a better job .. or go to michael moore hes good with that.. i like bourdain's show bec it shows food .. the story on that food ... like all viewers we kinda live through AB's travel vicariously .. i dont wanna see 30 minutes of awkwardness ... if not for the lechon that later half would have been an epic failure

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in the simplest terms.

 

anthony bourdain + no reservations = food.

 

that show is not the place for angsty, im confused, who am i, pseudo existentialist issues.

 

im not putting augusto down ... but i feel his issues about his national heritage may be best covered in another show. (oprah, perhaps?)

 

que?

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but the bragging rights were true for one---that's just the Pampango swag in full effect.

I know, I know, GMA makes you want to stab the nearest Capampangan in sight but that's just how it is.

and as obnoxious as Tayag may have been for you, at least they got talking about food.

 

in the end, that's where Bourdain really shines---when he keeps things simple and light but still engaging and meaningful.

you follow this series enough and you know what's gonna stick and what won't.

 

and sad to say, No Rez Philippines didn't quite stick, no thanks to lame little metaphors that didn't quite fly.

 

 

 

btw, just to stick to specifics---if you caught the Fan Contest Episode, Bourdain said that he would have to go to the Philippines at some point anyway.

credit to the kid for expediting the process but let's not make the mistake of putting up shrines to him.

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finally saw the show.

 

truthfully, and this coming from one who doesn't really follow the show, thus i don't have any pre-concieved notions on how the show should have gone, i didn't think it was half bad. i was kinda expecting it to be in lieu of all the negative reviews directed to the fil-am and his angst.

 

it would probably have been nice for other upscale versions of our dishes to have been featured. afterall, everybody was one in saying that there are many versions of our dishes; probably owing to the diversity of all the regions. but then, chef tony himself mentioned at one point of the show about his apprehension to be shown all the 'touristy' stuff. but all in all, the food that were shown is a good enough representation of what the country has to offer.

 

getting back to the fil-am kid, i guess it can't be helped that a good portion of the show was about him and his connection to the country. afterall again, the show was based on a fan vote/phone-in/mail-in (?) special in which the kid won. towards the end of the show, chef tony did say that this particular episode was about both philippine food and him.

 

what i like the least though is how chef claude pushed kapampangan cuisine as the epitome of philippine cuisine. at least that's how it appeared to me. and i guess that's also partly the reason why philippine cuisine is indeed not often recognized the way other country's cuisine are.

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augusto didnt win the fan contest .. he made the last round of interviews but wasnt chosen.. if they were gonna make the show about augusto and his discovery of filipino cuisine then they shouldve made him go all over the place with tony

 

i think they couldve played that regional cuisine ... like say which version of adobo thinks is best ... some stuff like that

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the first part of the episode was quite good, but it was all down hill when he got in the plane to cebu, it only picked up

 

again when the lechon cebu scene came up. it was kinda painful to see bourdain's soft side. the augusto angle wasnt

 

really working and was just a waste of time. this guy wasnt really "representin". they could have flown to cebu and

 

grabbed any guy on the street to show them around and it would have been a far much better show. i think they dropped

 

the ball when they got augusto to tag along. i mean, heres a guy who wasnt even born in the phil., was only there once

 

for a week, and he had this "crisis" of not knowing what his roots are. i understand their angle of having augusto touch

 

bases with his "roots" but he obviously was lost in an environment he didnt know anything about. what made things worst

 

was he didnt know what the hell he was doing there. it was so obvious that he wasnt really close with his cebuano family

 

to begin with. HE WASNT THE ENTHUSIASTIC GUY HE SEEMED TO PORTRAY WHEN HE INVITED BOURDAIN TO COME TO

 

THE PHIL, A COUNTRY HE CLAIMS TO KNOW...LAKAS NG LOOB NIYANG SABIHIN NA HE WOULD TOUR BOURDAIN

 

AROUND. IN MY OPINION, BOURDAIN AND THE PRODUCERS WERE SHORT CHANGED BY THIS CONFUSED YOUNG MAN.

 

so to augusto, DUDE, LET ME MAKE THINGS EASIER FOR YOU. YOU AINT FILIPINO, YOU WERE BORN IN THE STATES, YOU

 

LIVE IN NEW YORK...YOURE AMERICAN...SO PLEASE LEAVE OUR 3RD WORLD COUNTRY ASS ALONE.

 

I ALSO FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT BOURDAIN WOULD HAVE VISITED THE PHIL. EVEN WITHOUT THE AUGUSTO ANGLE.

 

sa dami ng filipino fans nya, it was just a matter of time. just hope he would come back...that would be a distant

 

possibility though, but if they do come back...LEAVE AUGUSTO BEHIND...HE HIM BUY HIS OWN PLANE TICKET IF HE

 

WANTS TO TAG ALONG. by the way , he looks kinda creepy...

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Augusto was a disappointment, Anthony Bourdain was the moral supporter and mood uplifter of Augusto.

 

Hats off to Ivan Man Dy, the Filipino-Chinese dude who toured Mr. Bourdain in Binondo

Hats off to Claude Tayag, the Kapampangan dude who toured Mr. Bourdain in Pampanga

Hats off to Joel (aka Market Manila) who gave Mr. Bourdain the 'best pig...ever'

 

Mr. Bourdain ranked the Philippines as having the best roasted pig in the world. Bali, Indonesia came second place while Puerto Rico came third (see Hierarchy of Pork in Bourdain's blog in Travel Channel website)

 

Here are the videos

 

No Reservations : Philippines Part 1 of 5

 

No Reservations : Philippines Part 2 of 5

 

No Reservations : Philippines Part 3 of 5

 

No Reservations : Philippines Part 4 of 5

 

No Reservations : Philippines Part 5 of 5

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We are 'just too damn nice' as uttered by Mr. Bourdain. By that, he's suggesting that we Filipinos should be more aggressive enough to push Filipino dishes and make it into a high profile so that the whole world would elevate our culinary dishes to new heights (and with respect!). The problem is, we are too damn nice really and always contented whatever comes our way, very reminiscent of the so-called 'bahala na' (let it be) attitude :(

 

Mr. Bourdain: "there is a flavor spectrum going on here that is different in anywhere else I've been"

 

"very New World"

 

Mr. Bourdain used the word 'Magical' TWICE in this Philippines episode

 

That would be the greatest compliment ever given to Philippine cuisines specially from a celebrity chef like Anthony Bourdain

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i was a bit shocked when the woman beside Claude immediately replied "pampanga first, philippines second" to Chef Bourdains question. Claude was obviously thinking of a more politically correct reply.

 

She's Mary Anne, Claude Tayag's wife. Actually it was Clude Tayag's statement.

 

Claude Tayag's statement is just a kapampangan pride, every region has some pride, i for one has pride for all cuisines in the NCR region, my wife who is visayan prides all visayan dishes. I guess it should be viewed as a compliment to the Philippines as a whole.

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