Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005–2012): Season 1, Episode 5 - Malaysia: Into the Jungle - full transcript

Tony has always been fascinated by the notion of "natural fusion," the way cuisines and cultures blend over the centuries. He's particularly fascinated by Malaysia.

5 years ago I was a chef working in New York City

Now

Picking my way from Deep Malaysian jungle

Lucius

You might think it's glamorous making television

Well you making no Reservations is not what

What you might think about it

The crew will I drive on left

The Ben for our cells

Far from the compass

Are there any TV studios really like there's a problem to be fixed



Sometimes

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Anthony bourdain I write I travel I eat and I'm hungry

Someone

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Malaysia

The old

Blue

Muslim

Hindu

Buddhist

Indian flag

Show me



Scalibor where all comes together this is a

Land of natural Fusion

Collision of cuisines and cultures of blended over the centuries

A place for indigenous people's Embrace the journey

Is a vital element of life

Little place you can visit as a tourist but it's best experience

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Someone who just knows the whatever happens it's going to be good having spent

Will you use of my life cooking in Majorca a lot of time travelling since I seen first-hand how important epicanthal

What is order defining and developing food and Culture what do you like New York Malaysia is a melting pot of May

Many cultures

And I always said

Replaces food and more specifically its markets

The quickest best way to gain entry to a culture in Ibiza

So I'm ignoring most of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Saltram Anna capital in favour of one of its oldest neighborhoods

Kampung baru for a meeting shop 1 the TV Superstar

Venus breeze flamboyant personality

Zeus his encyclopedic knowledge of Malaysian cuisine

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Someone is a wonderful delicious stuff

Ok I'm ready for a high-speed tour of this colourful Mark

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Kings College Dental

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I'm in here

Family Nicholson commenting

Bengali 11

You can come to me later. Haven't eaten Tanaka

Tribute uterus

In a good way

I just hope I'm not making that sound like you are

Disney how is lemonade

Just cooking cooking in middle

Death

Anenii Noi

We're gonna use our band

Maria TOWIE

Oh yeah make sure your tongue come out

Tongue out

How to remove Asian eating etiquette

Missing watching the now listen personal hygiene get the phone

Maka maka maka maka

Nepal

Bean bag

$1.30

Willie Mullins

I think I own that video

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Open PayPal

Reading Chinese meaning Valley freestyle

As long as it is good yummy

This is

The flower from the banana

Some people find nasty

Electrical headaches in your body

What's the sauce

Program break

Serious

That's really good

How long is real life a dragon

This guy stop

Oh yeah I'm giving my system the full on on Slide again that's fast

After 15 years

You are my Java taking a vacation astronomy history

Geography and ethnography

All-in-one black in 40 minutes

Kavita

Rescue Dawn

Sav12

Ugly

I think I've had quite enough food for tonight

The boy stood begging for mercy

I'm heading back to my room

After a load of far too much rich food with Chef wartime uncharacteristically open a suggestion

Am I producer bemoaning my British cynical worldviews suggested a remedy

Located a few miles outside akl at the Batu caves

All within the depths

Superimposing limestone Cliff

The caves are considered the holiest Hindu pilgrimage site in Malaysia

Dreamy annual festival of type and some the only a million worshipers will converge on the caves that are the Hindu god lord

Mamaruga

According to my guide book the festival also features of friends of painful looking body piercings

Some particularly devout pilgrims Pierce their tongues and cheeks

Books

Skewers and twines

As a form of penance

Now don't get me wrong

I Marlborough spiritually enlightened

My mother line ground spike my cheek

Typical offering for the Hindu ceremony at the Barricades consists of traditional flower necklaces

Endoca

I feel

Inadequate

An uncomfortable around for that Believers

Biggest snake in the grass

Frida

Probably occurred in the Punchbowl

And I got 272 steps to climb

Superfuture Travel Channel House

Never tried to climb anything that exceeds and hide the number of cigarettes you smoke in a week I should say

Utrac

Magic as well I'm really

Bit of a crime West.

Doesn't want to do x I actually if momentarily consider

When I quit smoking

After 272 steps

I finally made it

Didn't do blissfully transcendent phase of my life begin

Bruce and undergo a traditional blessing from the high priest

Who plays as the name is with those it's like a whispering your name to the God for him to bless you

I live in this is the way of praying you just put your hand in this way

Newhailes Garden Centre

We

What offers are the same

Give me a blessing in marks my forehead with tea

A red and white powder that symbolises the third Eye of the God Shiva

It's a beautiful ceremony

Absolute earnestness

Sincerity

And Faith

It's something you didn't even number leaving interloper like me can appreciate

Do you like George Harrison

Biggest ecstatic

Communism on

Molar growing vegetables share the Gogglebox soil

So pleased with the main cannapresso

The whole of the plastic

Squirrel territory

Opposite if you deep inside me when you get up

When I got my breakfast

It does sobering experience to come up against something bigger

Much bigger than yourself

This is a big gorgeous plant and I want it all

From a vibrant market one of the holiest Hindu shrines in the world this country is got a lot going on

Mac-10 explore the origins of Malay culture and see how it all got started

Call this soul searching is making me painfully aware of my own spiritual for you just to say

I'm hungry

Hi

My phone's as I arrived back in Kuala Lumpur and I'm left to my own devices

What does every hypno TV show mean

You know if the history of television entertainment is on at anything it's in the audience Just Can't Get Enough penis Joe

NASCAR I think I'm gonna sit down to a big steaming bowl

What are the lever to scare penis

Computer supersample a specialty consisting of bulls penis in a spicy curry

Consumed

Corsair truma to enhance a man's well you know what I mean that's what I'm eating

I think I want to see what I mean

Holy Island

Give me €900 yeah that looks like

Some help we have to drink

Angela Lansbury

Uncle had that natural viagra

How many times have you been out where you look for a full penis super find yourself saying I'm parched

Well if you like me you reach for a mug of specially pulled coffee

Sparkly indialicious by being poured back and forth between decanter

Skulduggery is a route to be used to infuse this coffee it supposed to be a natural

Viagra

Thoroughly

Vittoriosa isn't just about 14 along with the meeting Reading

Is a spicy mix of dried shrimp and coriander all swimming in a bowl.

Carolina still living

Oh yeah dear sir

Argue with me

How to say that's a spicy curry

Delicious

That was quite a mouthful

Ok I've had enough

Can we go back to the hotel

My work here is done

With a full night's rest and ready to set out in search of the origins of really Malay culture

Arrange to meet guys get highest old style Malaysia you send me in the right direction for meeting for lunch

A roadside Eatery which day between a row of auto body repair shop

Sharpened steel fabricators

Apley name the place under the big tree

This is all locals only joined

The Tourists ain't gonna find

I wouldn't stop

Until I guess

WhatsApp years

I bring an appetite for my friend he is all Legendary tattoo artists you and Kuala Lumpur

Is also a full blooded member of the Abarth

What is the oldest tribes in Malaysia

Eddie tells me that if I want to really get back to the purest roots original Malay culture

Yvonne longhouse villages of Sarawak on the island of Borneo

Where to go 3 hours drive from here

From Kuching

Write 10 in a 3 hour boat ride river

You guys Natalie trace their roots back before the origins of the country

They also know a thing or two about tattoos

According to Eddie

The journey for majella visit called in Sarawak

Is an essential part of the landline each tattoo represents a different journey of Adventure

Knowledge

Experian

I've gotta check this place out

I personally do I need for my own travel market

Water leak

I'm talking to the right guy

So you don't have to go around here Archer

Yeah very often travels deep in the Borneo jungles to study the traditional arts

Tribal tattooing

This little our original sound this is a man style

The real warrior tattoos of the washing hands which no one really has anymore because it meant that you had one killed

Right-hand that kill has to come with me yeah taking of the enemy's head if you have never taken the head of your enemy

Misfortune and come down one to go to the tattoo and

OK that is such a serious error

Planning on getting weekly really soon to let another that's another factor that like a skull

You don't look really good like a wrinkly skull logo

You do all Styles or just go to traditional and work in the machine we work by hand

By hand what you mean by um

Traditional

LEGO how our ancestors

To do with a stick where members

Actually with a needle attached to

The endeavour

Number one hammer

Sounds API

Oldest quarterback punctures skin is making me hungry

Give me some food

Aviva share price

Yep yep

Full musical cacophony of industrial cracking in The Familiar bustle of the kitchen comes the house special

Two giant freshwater grass carpets

Double stainless sauce with brown bean paste

Anise in curry

How to place under the big three and the answer is that the top cancer

Here the focus is on quality food

Oh man that looks good salvation Buttercup

Glucose through incredible mix of Cultures and cuisines and the best Chinese in the end

Some chocolates are good

Enough talk

Worried

I needed

Don't we all some head

Plenty of Fish app

Biggest league one I like to eat this

Laila chilli back with steroids

Show you something

Haven't seen before

Fish stomach

Stomach

Sometimes you find the best food in the most unusual places

Banging away on steel adjusting shock

Soap

Any last words of wisdom before I head out of The Jungle whenever

Ask for permission from the spirit sandal

How do that

The bad guy think I saw a guy doing now my doorway on the York

But I don't think he was any bad

Munch doesn't Staffordshire shed

Next up it's needles and ink producer

I've got a belly full of fish parts and My Heart of Darkness fantasy is the head up River lyrics

Screens the roots of Billy Malay culture

Eddie's gonna give me my passport to the Jungle

If I'm getting a tattoo I want to take it out something that won't make me a laughing stock if I'm on my newly born friend

Something really serious

Ultraviolet now

Historically these guys make the Hell's Angels look like the Village People

What do you call the peace sign anybody tell me that screaming burning

Adding together something a little bit more

Delicate

Delicate

Delicious

I need to be hard

Someone says I will shank you work a Jailhouse snitch

Something to give me instant Street cred with my new jungle friend

Delicate

OCD travel Discovery Channel international logo

Who what I do for my network then again

To be fair I get that sunetra tattoo lasered off

Alright

A compromise is reached

Andorra Boris

Ancient symbol depicting a steaks

Swallowing its own tail

Erica meet the school

He's a master within kinneil

Incorporating a band

Peaches in white wine

Otherwise

Sabine suspiciously happy

Is going to be the first time

Additional bag

Snake tattoo

Yes yes I like it

I may I wish I seen that before

And joining the dubious rise of Alicia Keys and Mrs Kevin federline

Well I'm a good hanzo

Binary

Eddie

Juventus signings

Tina Woods

Tumour radiopaedia

Cockapoo

Tattoo artist new Mercedes on the makes it funny you're ready

Im getting a traditional Yvonne tattoo

But it is going with the contemporary method rather than the old school B&B Wareham

Nothing hurts that much left be encouraged

Ring over the full spectrum of please

The extremities

Cutting your finger

Really really hurts

Getting your penis carpet door jamb

Orgasm

Yes I'm just guessing

Simple register with Karan Johar spouse

White Lion with a barn style tattoos my new design is simple

Lantern bulb

Kyoto

Misery chord Lagu Lagu Malaysia song I like women

Events decoration

Anybody see you don't know what it's either

So thrilled with what you do with

But it was a very ordinary designer needed something really special

Goodnight populated

I wear this

Surprise

I'm bothering you

Noah and properly marked out of The Jungle it's time to leave the city behind it

Woodhead autumn or rural surroundings

Any hook me up with a friend you can guide me into the jungle

The meaning of a small restaurant in a village

Accompong outside of town

The first thing I noticed when we arrived at the camp on is how things move at a slower pace

Village life revolves around

Family

Info

Yeah

Very

Family

Reorient

No matter where we go how far we went

It's so we still have to come back that will be late

How do you any what's the star in the Malaysian movie scene

Gave up glamour and Glitz to move back for a village roots and open up this little place

Always been

Begin to Kuching

Is my nephew the chef his great is wonderful

You make my my foot look

Look very pretty you know

Bday ideas with such warm

Proud

Generous people preparing food

Really shows

Just another of the signs I've come to learn means Good Food

Is on the way

What are the elements

Add me on Snapchat

Get perfect meal is always in

Happy

94 answers

Events

Sound of water dribbling into the

That group

Good thing

Didn't hear barefooted

Huge with

What is the size of the important Factor in pineville

He said really really well

My guy David knows what I'm talking about

Before we head out of The Jungle he's in Watney

We do some additional camping dishes

This day with the hands always

Oreo begins with a traditional appetizer made with curry and lemongrass

Religiously

My sister died in note 4

Forgotten Ibiza

Pre-dinner Rule always wash your hands

Wee wee

Maximum Scrabble

Chef wine would be

Very disappointed

M4 I can squeeze in and after appetizer cigarette

Avast an amazing array of food begins arriving

Fermacell

Physical job employer

Rosemoor

Call Marcel beautiful

Big sean Ariana Grande song

The name of the user has

Big dick

It is worth

Core HR

Really pretty

Cinema release

200 cooking all your life

Flo Rida finally

Actually at the beginning of his for fat

By granting wonderful about this

Especially when you learn how to

Of course you have to learn are the three basic type of food Indian food Malay food and Chinese food

Because that's what we have every day

Mine is being proficient in Greek cuisine since childhood

This is Melissa

Food that most of the time in my house it will be like

Have Carrie have money have something else

What is this

This is supposed to be good with the little little Belinda is actually star free

Eggnog

Even even more components

It's coming home

Sorry

It is really coming home

In the end

Is your family

Is good enough for me

Good Food beautiful surroundings

Sorry don't leave here

But the jungle

Who's calling me

I have a meeting with a former Yvonne headhunter

Just Can't Wait to me later

After a little rest during the 2 hour flight from Peninsular Malaysia we arrive in Kuching on the island of Borneo

What's a mysterious colonial Kingdom ruled by the White rajah

Present-day kuchenga laid-back

It's really

Typical Malaysian mix

Old

Vibrantly new

I'm ready to go to place where I have no idea where I'm going

Show me the cities of quick

Stop over on the way up river

Deep in the heart of the country

Hang with your bar

Nourishing breakfast is always a good idea before the serious exertion of travelling Rock

Everything is famous for one of those delicious

Spicy morning treats

Weapons grade plutonium of breakfast

Google am I jungle guide David and get the place to eat

Show me who this is breakfast breakfast of Champions coaching staff canteens indeed

Behold

WhatsApp

Where does this come from originated from here this is

100% more bread

Rewired records manamana

Specific due to Kuching

Searching is it

Capital of Latvia

It starts off benignly enough

With a generous serving of vegan noodles

What comes next takes this dish to Holywell gravy

The cold soup

Woody insufficient

A spicy

Fabulous Hardy Hill brothel

Coconut milk

Curry Sarawak Hot Chili Peppers

Together it's a liquid flavours combining queries

Watching we had your delicious Assault on the senses

The masterpiece

Pain and pleasure

Is fibre Kickstarter

Ultra spicy breakfast

I hope the plumbing is good in the jungle

How do the chilli paste on the side

Friday-Ad

Coconut milk

Shrimp n eat

All your basic food groups

This is a wake up

Ideal two eggs over easy with bacon

Just just doesn't do it for me anymore

If you give her so good

Just about ready to leave David tells me more about you born in a barn Culcheth

Is it turns out journeys of discovery of something they've been doing for centuries

Vagina

It's a divine way of life

Very very encouraging song

Exploration

Travel the journey

You bad guys when you come of age

You're expected to Michaels Chinese

Go away

Joe Weller and something get something

I need to move

My own journey continue

The jungle

Is calling

After a four-hour bell ride with the Kuching we finally hit the spring river

From here we'll leave that 3HR boat ride we ban longhouse next at the don't Longridge

Be nice to get there before dark

Should I butter cocoa butter

I loved

This part of making television

I love the idea of your bandage Ella

And maybe my own shirt

Looking at television career so I can go to cool places

Is not too far from the Acosta

I like to think so anyway

As I head up river I think about all the places I've been

And where are you have to go this

Garden State Parkway friends

The rivers is still the Highways here so if I want to spiritual my foot

I'm going to Meadowbank by bus

Hannah Jobling Land Rover that time

Swimming in the river where we going I said like our dear that's definitely fingerdoo

Blue cargo fish

I am now the singers at the

Further up the river we go

The more introspective I feel

I wonder of the

Hard-working producers of No Reservations are having similar LED

Street game wireless is Lucy one now what's your message

Does kids develop

Why do stars

Estimated time of beer arrival is 20 minutes that will be a warm beer served with river ice

It will however be cold Mountain Dew and Fresca

There's a local convenience

Storabed

Basic item

Cigarettes

Rubber

Beer

Cigarettes and beer

Oh yeah remind me of Highschool

Call Monica School

Gambia

Will will be the first time

My hair is getting cold

Malaga

Bin Laden

89% in degrees

Well for Christmas on YouTube

Appropriate

Double coupler price

Arabic

Why can't I stop eating Apocalypse Now references I know this is Malaysia in that Vietnam but I just

Scrap car Colwyn Bay Road

It's impolite not to have a gift in hand for your house

And nothing says thanks for having us like

Three cases of warm beer

As we continue upriver we move

Farther and farther away from the world I know

Would someone else's

Do not know where you going

Is the jungles in beloved and darkness

Are your destination growing close

The pink strains of music make their way down screen

David

Has become ugly choir

Wendover screws left behind several bends in the River I go when I'm thinking

It's dark hair man

Real dark

Disappoint

I have no idea what to expect

Will the sun rise I see where my journey is taking me

In a band Village deep

The Borneo jungle

Beughburn living longhouses like this

Along streams and river bank

This particular one has Billy just comprised

30 families with and separate apartments joined by along common area that spans the length of the structure

How about as far from New York City as I've ever been

And I'm loving

The Rooster Crow

Go to my alarm clock

Is the current place I can get used to

So what the hell is this I hear about going on a 6 hour hike through the jungle

But who am I to complain on the smart guys always saying who's the locals to write any

Thomas senior member of the tribe is telling us about

Emily Tom says March

Noel Gallagher

You watch

I think in this way

Having lived in the jungle his whole life it harm those this to rain like the back of his tattoo

To cover hand

He's a former member of the Sarawak Rangers

Paramilitary group be back in the 50s specialised tracking communist insurgents as well

Terminating when was extremely extreme prejudice biggest still clear 15 miles

Thick jungle a day

Live in the bush

Indefinitely please when was running up the hill

In other words

He is a serious badass

My playlist

People left this rhetoric to a minimum the try not to fall too far behind

Stihl 130

Medium getting the hang of this jungle thing after all

Wonder

Were stumbling alumbra through the jungle like you're crippled elephants

By the way did I meet anytime other claim to fame

Pictures of a turnip and a camera to work

Pyjamas

Fingers on his left hand does tattoos indicate

Trips to the Boneyard for somebody

Dr Tom is one of the last generations of Ubuntu

Delicate art of headhunting

Think I'm kidding

Stay with me

If you're not getting enough heading your life simulator

Timber

Nowadays he uses his considerable decapitation skills for more

Hospital cat

My puppy just break your snack

Nothing takes the edge off along Hythe and some fresh heart of palm

He doesn't stop just snacks

In the jungle that means fresh cod fish

This time you get help from other Reborn

And of course

Yours truly

Your fisherman in one of them

Beer52 decide to hang back something

Be more familiar

I'm waiting for some children

What the experts handle the work

New lunches still flapping around is it being prepared to say it's going to be fresh

Fish

Straight from the screen

Rice and vegetable steamed in bamboo over open fire

This is original Malay as you're going to find

Anywhere in alfresco whenever possible

Christian jungle screen sun on my back and new friend this is the way it should be enjoyed

The heart of palm

Heatons mule is nevica

Complete without Porky's just offered you some

Fermented pork

I sometimes feel like I've had enough for me to meet my life with her

A Thomas Adidas

I eaten

You.me.at mean

Lithuanian interminable Tony's wife

Another great meal in another step

Closer to the heart of the matter

Viscount restaurant

My ear hurts

Telling me it's time to move out

Limpwurt roots

Generally

Martinez

Back of the Long house it's time to wait out the storm

The take a brief nap before dinner

I'm a Wikipedia but I'm not exactly having pleasant dreams of what's the car

Ok what is some places you

You know you arrived welcome

Drink a little umbrella in a

Pina colada butt

Here's a little bit

That's right you're in the jungle guests expected to kill a pig

For the welcoming feast that they have already done most of the work

Pineapple in need package for their guest I'm honoured really I am but it's customary I'm too

Told to be our guest to dispatch the pig with a spear

But I don't want you to think I enjoy this part

I don't mean you're welcome

Cumberbatch

Killing It Right is honouring them

M2m is the Beast

Listen

This is hard it's not fun

People to watch

Painful to do

Red delicious

What chubby weight becomes from somewhere out there

Why do we send me if you like painting my face putting on the doors in sneaking up on Marlon Brando

Sorry buddy

I'm trying very hard to

To keep my cool

I'd like to person appears crudo little ball and start shaking uncontrollably with

That wouldn't do what it

Circle of Life ride

This page will be the whole Village

A joyous occasion

Badly needed sustenance

Hello enjoy your degree and f34 have never had in life

OK what do you cook that is

Back at the longhouse there's no time to mourn the animals party

Everybody's too busy you

You could say that I'll tell her I have dinner

Or

Wow cooking liquid

That's my girlfriend

Organically

Big fat shame and guilt don't live here

What's better a wash away guilt in a shot of Lincoln

Homemade rice liquor

Drink of choice

The celebrations you were the one

Every battle is going to be

Pictures of instant blindness or I hope

Relatively Slim

Oh yeah that's what

Monica and into what

Rice wine

Beast

Begin

Rock your Baby reference premiere

Very good

Cosmography Wetherby

Please go ahead

Miro

I love my job

Looking good liver in the

Liver and heart

Alright do cooking seems under control

What to do

What to do

Celtics

Rangers

Pointers

It wasn't me I swear I wasn't he was a little kid

Bicycle you can call me for dinner

Tribal tattoos gets her first

True I've eaten food that was prepared with more Vanessa my wife

Just be quiet

Here is where it all started

I am lucky

Lucky Coq

I'm good thanks

The dinner out the way it's time for some entertainment

Although headhunting hasn't been practice

Justin sometime in the centre of the Chiefs area is a collection of

You guessed it

Proudly displayed skulls

Offering is made before the evening entertainment

Permission

Thenewno2

Spirit in the Sky

The oldest dance and show off their tattoos

The source of much

Try the connection between the material and spiritual world signifying a man success as a hunter or warrior

Euro traveller

Even for an inebriated outside of the traditions and Priyanka this Village everywhere Desai

I just hope

I can remember all these

Racist Lee cool moments

In the morning

Armadillo

My last morning in Malaysia

Things

Order food now

I can say for sure I've had a hell of a time

But what exactly have I gained

Home I change my what I've seen

What I've done

Should I go on my own but JLR was this just another weeks work for the Flying Dutchman travelling TV house

Always moving

Never staying in one place

Vermicelli

Remind me after work Lumineers to was on about the jello

About self Discovery

As much as it about discovering the outside world

You go away

Humour

You get scarred

Mark

Change the process

And hopefully

When all is said and done

A little bit better

You're a journey manager

Effect of you wearing this

Signs from dead

Be happy to see you just

Keep going

I will

Cheers

Cheers everyone

All4

Like it or not the network is sending a helicopter airlift me back

The busy world from which I came

Guy Screams about women

I don't belong here but I don't know if I belong to your Kenworthy

As you probably noticed

I'm not an expert on the places I visit

I'm not an authority

I'm a visitor

Travel

Enthusiast

Is it possible to Bridgeton hollowed out at the same time isn't always pretty

It is always comfortable

Sometimes it hurts

It even breaks your heart

But that's ok

The journey changes you

It should change

Leave marks on your memory

Consciousness

Your heart

And on your body

Take something with you

Hopefully

Leave something good behind

Brazzer

Where will I end up next

What's my next turning your guess is as good as mine