This episode started in Cairo, a huge city of over 6 million. The traffic was brutal. The air was hazy, with a view of the Pyramids in the background. Bourdain kept saying that he was not going to see them. I can understand that. Tony loves history but it is just not his style to succumb to a tourist trap.
One thing that our host commented on was how friendly the Egyptian people were. There were so many people who were shaking his hand. Making his way around, he had a very traditional breakfast and lunch that was heavy on the carbs. In a poor country, it is an important source of nutrition. The evening was spent in a cafe, where men were playing backgammon and smoking water pipes. We proceed to the Nile river and a boat ride in a felucca. Tony was complaining mightily about how dumb it was when the boat went under a bridge and snapped the mast in half. Luckily, the scene ended soon.
The best was to come. Tony got to go to a small farming town and eat a home cooked meal with a family. He loves this kind of stuff.
The show ends with a day with Bedouins in the desert. The vastness, the emptiness would be boring to many. Tony loved it. I know how he feels. You can hear the silence, absorb the quiet and be overwhelmed by the peace. 5 days, he was told, and he would be a changed man. After the traditional lamb dinner, I think he definitely was.moreless
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Anthony Bourdain tries to avoid the tourist traps in one of the oldest civilizations in the world-Egypt.
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Tony: The perfect happiness only attainable through sizzling mystery meats.
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Tony claims that during the filming of this episode he was very uncomfortable, especially in Cairo. He blames it on severe homesickness.
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The parental discretion warning starts off as English and then morphs into Egyptian writing. Finally, a gust of wind blows the letters away as sand.
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Tony: About ten minutes out in this tub and our skipper Gilligan rams a f*** thing into the f****** bridge, snapping the mast in half and very nearly impales me with falling timbers. Since Tony is on a wrecked boat and refers to the captain as "Skipper Gilligan," he is alluding to the 1960's sitcom, Gilligan's Island where the Skipper and his first mate wrecked their boat and shipwrecked them all on an island for years.
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Tony: There's some Mad Max s*** goin' on here. Mad Max was the main character played by Mel Gibson in the post-apocalyptic trilogy Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior (1982), and Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome (1985).
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