As Bourdain puts it at this episode’s start, "China is big. Really big." He visited China many times across his various shows, but only once did he film an episode in the cold northeastern city of Harbin, the most notable city of the Dongbei Region, which translates to ‘east north’ in Chinese...

Anthony Bourdain was the first to admit that there were some destinations he could never visit enough to fully understand. Beijing – and China as a whole – certainly fit that description. China's capital city is almost inconceivably massive, and home to 21.5 million people, and a juxtaposition of Imperial history with modern Chinese economic and infrastructure growth. It's home to restaurants of every style, type, and menu – including places you can find Chinese dishes you may have seen at restaurants elsewhere, at their origin...

In the Venn diagram of cultures, Macau sits right in the overlap. Originally settled by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Macau was the first – and last – European colony in East Asia. Portugal held the colony until 1999 when they handed it over to China; in a shocking twist, Macau was not completely assimilated and retains much of its original colonial charm, but far fewer scars than other colonies around the globe...