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- This week on Parts Unknown, host Anthony Bourdain travels to Hong Kong for a unique perspective on the modern city. Cinematographer and Hong Kong resident Christopher Doyle shows Bourdain around. Asia Argento, the actress, director, and Bourdain’s romantic partner, took control behind the camera. Bourdain calls the results “unlike any other episode.” Parts Unknown: Hong Kong airs this Sunday, June 3, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Get a sneak peek via the clips below.
- Congratulations to the city of Vancouver, where North America’s largest Indian buffet will open next week. Tandoori Flame, which is based out of Toronto, will serve 150 items on weekends, and the 11,000-square-foot space has seating for 450.
- Comedian Ali Wong’s Netflix romcom about a San Francisco chef has added two more big names to the cast: Keanu Reeves and Daniel Dae Kim. There’s not word on what kind of characters the actors will play.
- If, for some reason, you’re desperate to see Parrothead Jimmy Buffett’s widely panned Broadway musical, Escape to Margaritaville, you have one more month to make that happen.
- Apparently teens spend 1,000 hours thinking about food from age 13 through 19. Some olds like to assume teens don’t have their priorities in order, but it sounds like the kids are all right.
- In an interview with Marketplace, Clare Reichenbach, the James Beard Foundation’s new chief executive officer, explains how judging changed during the most recent awards season.
- Tableside service is making a comeback, but are restaurants taking it too far? Bloomberg’s Kate Krader notes the extra skills and equipment required to prepare dishes out in the dining room are causing the already-high cost of fine dining to skyrocket.
- A Swedish brewery is making beer from sewage water, which is a nice way to recycle, but doesn’t sound too thirst-quenching. Which is better, sewage beer or urine beer?
- The negative press that surrounded Starbucks after two black men were arrested at one of its Philadelphia cafes may have cost the coffee chain roughly $16 million.
- Canned-fruit purveyor Dole came up with a questionable recipe for jerk chicken — it contains raisins, bananas, and little spice — and the internet, predictably, is furious.
- Following a massive E. coli outbreak that was linked to tainted romaine lettuce, the entire lettuce industry is facing declining sales and falling prices.
- Donald Trump was recently revealed to be eating his hamburgers with only half of a bun in an effort to keep his diet healthy. It seems he’s also eschewing burnt-to-a-crisp steak with ketchup for Dover sole.
- Finally, former Disney Channel child star Dylan Sprouse is all grown up, and now he’s brewing his own beer in Brooklyn.
