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Childhood in hue. >> nguyen qui duc: if i'm gonna die, if i'm going to go to prison, they give me a last meal, this will be it. >> anthony: this will be it. >> nguyen qui duc: this will be it. >> anthony: let's do it man. here, kim chau creates an elaborate broth of mixed bones scented with lemongrass, spice and fermented shrimp paste. at the bottom, rice noodles, garnished -- nay, heaped -- with tender slow cooked beef shank, crabmeat dumplings, pigs' foot, and huyet, blood cake. garnished with lime wedge, cilantro, green onions, chili sauce, shredded banana blossoms and mung bean sprouts, it...

>> tomas: yeah, i'm still. >> anthony: still? so, what happened, man? how -- how did you go from music to restaurants? >> tomas: rock and roll don't give me money. >> anthony: good. >> tomas: it's good, yeah. it's really good. >> anthony: well, it's great that business is good because generally speaking, the only worse idea than, "i think i'll try to make a living making music" is "i think i'll make a living, like, opening a restaurant." i see why that's so popular. good stuff. >> tomas: thank you, tony. >> anthony: tomas' take on osso buco uses beef shank instead of veal, which is braised ove...

She's brought us to chef lan gue jun's restaurant. >> fuchsia: what he's trying to do is, sort of, raise the level of sichuanese food to, sort of, very refined banquet cookery. >> anthony: is what he's doing unusual for chengdu? for china? >> fuchsia: it is really unusual. so, i think, in the west we are, sort of, very used to the idea of the celebrity chef and the individual chef as artist. but in china people traditionally look down on chefs. so, this is quite a new thing. there are very few chefs who are really, like, the creative vision behind the food and doing the work in the kitchen. >>...

My way of thinking, in the hierarchy of delicious, slurpy stuff in a bowl, bun bo hue is at the very top. nguyen qui duc is an author and journalist who spent much of his childhood in hue. >> nguyen qui duc: if i'm gonna die, if i'm going to go to prison, they give me a last meal, this will be it. >> anthony: this will be it. >> nguyen qui duc: this will be it. >> anthony: let's do it man. here, kim chau creates an elaborate broth of mixed bones scented with lemongrass, spice and fermented shrimp paste. at the bottom, rice noodles, garnished -- nay, heaped -- with tender slow cooked beef shank...

My way of thinking, in the hierarchy of delicious, slurpy stuff in a bowl, bun bo hue is at the very top. nguyen qui duc is an author and journalist who spent much of his childhood in hue. >> nguyen qui duc: if i'm gonna die, if i'm going to go to prison, they give me a last meal, this will be it. >> anthony: this will be it. >> nguyen qui duc: this will be it. >> anthony: let's do it man. here, kim chau creates an elaborate broth of mixed bones scented with lemongrass, spice and fermented shrimp paste. at the bottom, rice noodles, garnished -- nay, heaped -- with tender slow cooked beef shank...