User Reviews

World cuisine, with stories and working chefs. Ainsley watching them, interviewing them, then cooking his take on aspects of the cuisine. What could be better? Found it on Netflix. What a joyous man, and what gorgeous food!

Wish the cameraman didn't insist on shooting through passers by and opted to physically get close to details instead of zooming in.

Wish Ainsley didn't insist on traveling alone to countries where he didn't speak the native tongue. There's so many moments where he "feels tongue tied" and there's no input from the natives. A translator would have made the show a lot more informative. A missed opportunity to get a worldly perspective as opposed to just his.

Another reviewer mentioned he focuses a bit too much on redoing recipes and even making sure the cooks try it as if to show them he could outdo what these guys have devoted their lives to making. It does indeed feel a bit in "bad taste". You can see it too in the locals expressions. Awkward.

Wish he didn't insist on talking with his mouth chalk full of food. It's literally disgusting lol.

Otherwise, I do appreciate the breakdown with some of the local chefs that show the way they make their signature dishes.

This show has promise just as the amazing show Somebody Feed Phil has promise. Only, unlike Phil, Ainsley is just not a lovable guy. This show doesn't live up to its potential because Ainsley goes on a search for street food with the uptight snobbery of a 5 Star chef in a big city. He is quick to insult the workers (on tv I might add) thus giving them bad press for their generosity. Likewise, he tends to constantly customize the dishes to his own creation and then feed his renditions to the shop owners in a sense that implies he can do the traditional foods better than the ones within the cultures he visits. The food is the only reason to watch, but I would suggest watching Somebody Feed Phil instead.

A low-budget, half-hearted, condescending, biased attempt at an Anthony Bourdain-like show. Please don't waste your time watching this. I watched the Taipei, Taiwan episode. Ainsley goes around markets getting video clips of food that he doesn't even try to eat, and if he does it's from picking off other people's plates. Then he criticizes the food and isn't even grateful for those people who shared with him. He also finds generous people to share their secret recipe with him. Does he learn their tricks or watch them make it? No! He bums off of someone else's kitchen, stove, whatever, to make his own version of THEIR secret recipe and proceeds to talk about how HIS dish incorporates THEIR culture in a place he's gotten to know for a few days. Really? Please don't waste your time watching this poor attempt at a "show".