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>> tim: thank you. >> anthony: hi, guys. well, this is nice. >> tim: hi. >> anthony: tim has invited me to dinner alongside a few people that have taken full advantage of the booming economy in china. there's eva wang, an architect and designer. daniel zhung, a real estate developer. and koko xu, a party planner. so you eat like this all the time? nice wine cellar? >> tim: uh, twice a night. today we're surrounded by southern french wine and northern italian wine. >> anthony: mm-hmm. >> tim: and if you like, you can eat in different district of wine country every night. >> anthony: isn't this ...

Shanghai chef jackie xu prepares a meal of a style that will become without a doubt, more and more typical and in demand here among those who can afford it. and more and more people every day can afford it. >> tim: what is it? so we have tomato and potato and that's it. what else do we have? >> jackie: roasted tomahawk. >> anthony: australian wagyu beef, a massive, perfectly cooked tomahawk chop. coming in the door at up to a $150 a pound, that includes bones and fat, this is about $1,000 worth of steak, bitches. even if tim wanted to serve good old usa beef, still the finest on earth, in my o...

So you name your label, the village of wines, i think most of the chance we have it. and, uh, so this side is all our interesting wines, that they can keep aging themselves. >> anthony: this is the -- the house collection. >> tim: that's correct. >> anthony: right. >> tim: and now i want to show you the membership area. our newest member, anthony bourdain. and it's all of our roosevelt collections of wines. please open it. ah. >> anthony: whoa. cool. it's good being me. thank you. >> tim: it's good to have it used. >> anthony: thank you so much, thank you. cool! close that up, man. wait a minu...

Restaurant in new york? >> anthony: i grew up in the '50s and '60s and even then, chinese restaurant, chinese food, was really an essential part of being a new yorker. i mean, if you didn't know how to use chopsticks as a new yorker, you were a terrible new yorker. >> tim: i want to ask one thing. you know how to speak like a brooklyn person? >> anthony: it's a tough accent. queens is easier, you know, it's a -- more of a -- i can't -- i mean, i lived right next to it my whole life. >> tim: can, can't you say one -- >> anthony: but i mean, the -- the accent? >> tim: no, we don't want to hear, ...

He's also the president of roosevelt china investments, a very old company with a long history doing business here, created by the roosevelt family, maybe you've heard of them. this is his clubhouse. really, the house of roosevelt on the bund, right in the middle of it all. wine is big here now. the french chateaus, more and more they look to china as the indicators of price, as the market maker. tim alone has stocked around 4,000 labels here. china in general bought 2 billion bottles of red wine last year alone. think about that for a minute. they are now the leading market for red wine in th...