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Reverse chronology is used to tell the story of Tony's return trip to South Korea after a 10-year absence. He experiences the nuances of hyper-modern Seoul which has its sights set on becoming the world's top exporter of popular culture. Food options include Korean fried chicken, and a vintage Korean "army" stew, budae jjigae, with Spam, canned baked beans, frankfurters, ramen noodles and Kimchi.

 

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The backwards aspect of this episode annoyed me. I liked Memento and even the backwards episode of Seinfeld but for me the key to backwards editing (or in medias res when I am reading) is that the events have to be interesting enough for me to want to know what preceded it or how we got there. I am all for watching Tony eat food but there wasn't an interesting enough narrative to justify the backwards editing of this episode. I also hated every time they spliced together an endless stream of quotes.

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If anyone ever opens the Museum of 3 AM Munchie Food, that's going to have its own wing.

I was massively sick with a bad cold last year and I managed to make a huge pot of budae jjigae which I proceeded to eat for every meal for the next two days. I have never killed a virus so effectively!

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I was massively sick with a bad cold last year and I managed to make a huge pot of budae jjigae which I proceeded to eat for every meal for the next two days. I have never killed a virus so effectively!

 

During the big bird flu scare, they managed to cure chickens who had it by feeding them kimchi. Korean food is mighty stuff.

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This was the first Bourdain show I didn't like very much.  I don't think it was the backward regression.  I think it was all the gaming in the show - boring for me.  I still love Anthony and got a kick out of seeing him really blasted!

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