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Singapore

By Andrew Zimmern on May 19, 2009 12:00 AM | Permalink | 9 Comments

Ever since Thomas Stanford Raffles founded Singapore as a trading post for the British East India Company, this precious island nation has been at the crossroads of food, commerce and culture, capturing the imagination of the world. Singapore is one of the three remaining City States in the world: Monaco and Vatican City round out the club. Raffles set foot on this island back in 1819, in hopes of creating a British trade port that would rival the Dutch settlements in the surrounding areas. What resulted from that is a hybrid food culture that encompasses the best of Asian cuisine. Positioned off the tip of Malaysia, this small island nation has built itself on being an ideal, a clean, crime free country which through centuries of trade with surrounding nation has now become a place where eating has literally become a national pastime.

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Eastern Australia

By Andrew Zimmern on May 12, 2009 12:00 AM | Permalink | 8 Comments

Sydney is an incredible city, and yes, deserving of all the accolades it's received over the years. It is clean, modern and supports an incredible arts scene. Its coast line is ringed with beach after spectacular beach, all within a 10 or 20 minute drive of downtown. The restaurant life is world class. The markets are beyond compare-literally- with shelves and tables groaning under the weight of some of the world's finest meats, seafood, fruits, vegetables, dairy and wine. The people are friendly and warm, and despite some of the wrinkles we had getting to know folks outside of the big city, in Sydney, everyone wants to be your friend. Neil Perry wanted to be mine, and that was a dream come true.

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Appalachia: Crème de la Crème

By Andrew Zimmern on May 5, 2009 12:00 AM | Permalink | 32 Comments

Central casting office from Deliverance. Speaking in tongues. Moonshine. Dolly Parton. If you listen to the ethnocentric pop culture Mandarins you would think the Appalachian Trail is littered with this hill country iconography. It's not. The trip we took through West Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee was the crème de la crème of all our domestic shoots. Chic little restaurants in Asheville NC, killer barbecue stands on the rural highways in Tennessee, real country stores in the mountains of West Virginia where even the hams are cured on the premise. That's the Trail that I saw.

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Out Back of Beyond

By Andrew Zimmern on April 28, 2009 9:00 PM | Permalink | 10 Comments

So in the Outback I eat croc, croc eggs, long necked turtle, cane toads, termite nests and just about everything else you would imagine a guy like me could find in the NT of Oz-tralia.

But one little tale paints the whole picture, more so than the Mindil Beach Market, the Toad mustering, the amazing meal that Ungun and her friends made me on the shores of the billabong, more than the amazing Steve Sunk, the Walkabout Chef, more than Sean and I driving across The Track ...

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Head to Seoul!

By Andrew Zimmern on April 21, 2009 9:00 PM | Permalink | 30 Comments

Korea ... torn between the tug of modernity and the tidal pull of their own traditionalism. Royal palaces and tombs still dot the city, traditional cultural performances and festivals are everywhere. And so are the Apple stores. Korea is a mind blower. Like Tokyo, Seoul is one of the most hoppin' happenin' cities in the world and without a doubt the most underrated food city in the world. Paris, Tokyo, NYC, San Fran, Sydney ... they get all the publicity, but Seoul is the real deal, too. Koreans love to eat and despite the OVERWHELMING dearth of restaurants serving anything other than Korean fare, you will never tire of the cuisine in Seoul because Korean food is so diverse it makes Dolly Parton's closet seem mundane by comparison.

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