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Tony explores the other Hawaii, the one that those 8 million tourists don't see when they descend on the islands every year. He meets with travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux, Chef Andrew Le of Pig and the Lady in Honolulu, talent manager Shep Gordon and communes with residents of Molokai for a meal at an ancient oceanside fish pond.
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I was really surprised that he did another Hawaii episode because he seemed like he got his arm twisted to do the previous one. I am glad that he enjoyed this trip more than the last one though. I am also glad he went to some of the less touristy areas. That was my main complaint about his earlier Hawaii episode: if you know you hate crowded tourist areas, why go there to film and then complain that it's crowded and full of tourists? To me that's like going to Times Square, Disney World, Pier 39, or the Statue of Liberty and then bitching that you're surrounded by hordes or tourists. You know they're going to be there so either accept it or go somewhere else.

I always have mixed feelings when a travel show is allowed to film on Molokai. On the one hand I appreciate that people at home are allowed to see how beautiful it is and how different it is. Hopefully it allows people to understand why the people of Molokai don't want their island turned into another Oahu. But then part of me is slightly annoyed that people like Bourdain get to go because they have a camera crew.

The discussion of what it means to be Hawaiian was very timely considering the recent Rachel Donezal situation. I think that will continue to be an important conversation as time goes on. I totally agree that if you are not ethnically Hawaiian, nothing will ever change that but I am sure that people who are not ethnically Hawaiian but were born and raised there still feel a bond and loyalty to the land (and even moreso if your family has lived there for several generations). It's a complicated issue with no simple answer so it was nice to get perspectives from different people.

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if you know you hate crowded tourist areas, why go there to film and then complain that it's crowded and full of tourists? To me that's like going to Times Square, Disney World, Pier 39, or the Statue of Liberty and then bitching that you're surrounded by hordes or tourists. You know they're going to be there so either accept it or go somewhere else.

 

Because Anthony Bourdain is a suburban hipster-turned-Manhattanite, and going to Times Square and then bitching that you're surrounded by hordes of tourists is pretty much a religious ritual for them.

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Nowadays worth or without a camera crew it's easy to visit Molokai, heck you don't even need a hotel reservation or a confirmed place to stay the night.

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