gift_of_game Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 (edited) actually liked Greece...and Japan...and Colombia...and Venice...and Argentina...and Hong Kong... of course, my fave would probably have to be NYC, where he spent the opening minutes ranting about gentrification... Edited February 19, 2009 by gift_of_game Quote Link to comment
denimhead Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 i like China ..... South Carolina ... Chicago ... Japan ... Ireland ... Singapore Quote Link to comment
zuliatardis Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 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... Quote Link to comment
agentSmirnoff Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Ive seen both epsiodes by Andrew Zimmern and Anthony Bourdain, i definitely think that the No Resevation episode is much better than the Bizarre Foods :thumbsupsmiley: Quote Link to comment
denimhead Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment
Wyld Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 (edited) 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? Edited February 19, 2009 by Wyld Quote Link to comment
gift_of_game Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 (edited) ^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. Edited February 19, 2009 by gift_of_game Quote Link to comment
kanski Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment
denimhead Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 (edited) 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 Edited February 20, 2009 by denimhead Quote Link to comment
Wyld Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 for the record -- the FANatic contest was won by an entry that pitched Saudi Arabia. Quote Link to comment
Hex_Arenas Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Bourdain is waaay to much chatty and talkative for me...napaka-cliche pa ng speech nya. Quote Link to comment
gift_of_game Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Bourdain is waaay to much chatty and talkative for me...napaka-cliche pa ng speech nya. what's he supposed to do then?Mime his show away? Quote Link to comment
notnot Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 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... Quote Link to comment
denimhead Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 now ... i also think the auggie angle was a fail .. but i wont go that far to blame auggie.... Quote Link to comment
Phrozhen.Khold Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Didn't get to watch the show... but here's something I saw while surfin http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/0...t-pig-ever.html Quote Link to comment
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