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old and very new. an exploding middle class. a lot of history. and food that can burn you down to a charred, smoking little stump. sichuan province, located in the southwest of china. over a thousand miles from beijing. a region so fertile and lush that it s been referred to as china s breadbasket. and its capitol, chengdu. despite its ever-growing skyline, it hasn t lost its deep culinary roots and traditions. man: heart. anthony: and i figured if i m going back to sichuan i should bring a friend. someone unused to the, how shall i say, level of heat commonly found in the food here. someone who s never been to china before and is unused to its ways. i m talking, of course, about chef eric ripert, of such three-star michelin restaurants as new york s le bernardin.
expected it? eric: yes. it is exactly what i expected it. [ laughs ] seven: more beers, guys? anthony: yeah. definitely. eric: i cannot think anymore. so i m gonna eat and drink. anthony: but the baijiu comes out and everything is fine again, for me, anyway. i m not so sure about eric. anthony: you re out of it, man. it s all good, though. it s all good. eric: okay. anthony: don t say okay. the evening s just beginning. xiao: everything you just had was appetizer. anthony: it s all good, though. it s all good. eric: he s the devil. look at him. seven: let s drink baijiu. anthony: all right, eric. yeah. you re getting into the spirit of things. eric: do you know he took me, he took me on this trip to make me suffer. seven: yeah.
eric: embrace the experience. [ laughs ] chen: we re about, maybe, 115 kilometers away from the center city of chengdu. anthony: chen zhong is a filmmaker from beijing who often returns to chengdu, the place of his birth, to enjoy the more laid-back pace. anthony: so, on the weekends, everybody comes out to, what s it called? chen: it s a term to describe a place like this. it means, you know, that the agricultural family happiness. something like that. anthony: agricultural family happiness. or rural family happiness. chen: rural, yeah, rural family happiness. it s like the rural families, they are holding the business like this. a restaurant and also an entertainment place for people to come over to eat, to enjoy the view, to fish, and to play mahjong. anthony: you ever do that?