One of the best things about travelling in Asia is the food, and this show puts celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey right into the kitchens of both renowned chefs and street food cooks. He’s out of his comfort zone, just like most first time travellers to Asia, and it’s good to see the usually smug and arrogant celebrity chef taken down a few notches. He handles himself pretty well and I definitely respect him a bit more after seeing this show. In the newer Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip, we see Ramsey travelling around Europe and the US in search of local food and good times - not bad but not one of my favourites.Īnthony Bourdain (A Cook’s Tour, No Reservations, The Layover, Parts Unknown) He gets to some pretty out of the way locations and really delves into the traditions that infuse Southeast Asian and Indian cooking.
This chef / writer has a very different style to most travel TV show presenters. His shows are often dark, funny and surreal. He also visits some pretty off-beat places and definitely doesn’t join the tourist trail. Bourdain’s whole “be a traveller not a tourist” thing is a bit smug but I can forgive him for that. I prefer No Reservations to his current show, Parts Unknown, as it seems to take itself a bit less seriously. Travel Man features another travel TV host, Richard Ayoade, who it seems would rather not be travelling. He teams up with a different celebrity each week and together they spend 48 hours in cities across Europe (with a couple of further flung destinations thrown in too). It’s generally really funny, but the level depends greatly on the “other celebrity” (often comedians who are really only famous in the UK).
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan (and other shows) Ayoade himself has a style all of his own and is pretty funny. Romesh Ranganathan is a British comedian of Sri Lankan decent who falls into the “reluctant traveller” category. The first season of his show Asian Provocateur shows him on a trip to Sri Lanka for the first time (mainly getting to know his family rather than travelling) while the second follows the same format only this time in the USA. Just Another Immigrant sees Romesh return to America to try and make it as a comedian. For The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, he heads off to some less common travel destinations including Haiti, Albania and Ethiopia.
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