Wow, it is bad. Did you see the programme tonight? He was in Cambodia and managed to make their food look horrific. He ate 20 day old duck foetus eggs, tarantulas, slit the throat of a buffalo then pranced around a kitchen cooking for the Cambodian royal family thinking he knew better than the local chefs. He didn't eat anything that looked tasty, the programme just put me off the whole country and their cuisine
On the other hand I continue to love Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey. The programme was wonderful (did you see the episode where he watched a family make rice noodles in their yard out of wooden machinery?) The book is one of my favourites of the last few years and Stein managed to make me desperate to visit Cambodia and Vietnam, mainly by his recipes cured beef salad with lemongrass, peanuts and basil, and Hanoi chicken noodle soup with bok choi (and the vital accompanying Vietnamese dipping sauce nuoc cham made of lime juice, fish sauce, palm sugar, ginger, chilli and garlic). I recommend you spend the time you would have spent watching Ramsey googling Stein's recipes.
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