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1,000 Ways to Dine
1,000 Ways to Dine

1,000 Ways to Dine

—Viewers are taken on a tour of some of the most unusual and unique restaurants-where food is just one part of the experience.
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Season 120 of 20 Episodes

  • Join host Michael Yo as we journey to Thailand for extra crispy flying fried chicken; then dinner is served with a heaping side of sassy lip service by a restaurant full of Karens in Sydney, Australia.

  • Food lovers know that the best dining experiences are supposed to stimulate all the senses; Michael Yo takes viewers on five dining adventures that push the limits.

  • Sometimes the best meals are kept locked behind closed doors; Michael Yo has the keys to some of the special and secret dining spaces around.

  • Join Michael Yo for a journey to some far out places to eat; snowshoe through the backwoods for bison and duck, duck, goose; climb to the treetops of Costa Rica for local fare and coffee on a steak medium rare and more.

  • The first stop is at a sushi bar-slash-game show in an NYC eatery that also doubles as a speakeasy; journey to Argentina for dinner in an authentic NYC subway before jetting off to a pub in Texas where patrons can clean their plates.

  • A trip to Thailand to sip high tea in a high tree before jetting off to sample the world's largest prawns at a restaurant balanced on a rock off the coast of Zanzibar.

  • Stepping inside a forest in Tokyo and watching your food grow right before your eyes; journey back to reality in the fantasy world of Las Vegas at a "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" themed tasting.

  • Hitting the back roads for bison burgers in Alabama to Brussels sprouts behind bars in Connecticut; then it's American fare on a grounded airplane in Colorado.

  • Dining out can be risky business at the five restaurants where life-or-death stakes are served up daily; Michael Yo tags along as diners test their fate with a toxic puffer fish in Tokyo.

  • Michael Yo discovers that big flavors can come in small dining spaces; squeeze into a four-table pancake house in Amsterdam, shoehorn into an oyster bar in a NYC brownstone, elbow into a ramen shop in Manhattan and more.

  • Michael is on a visit to a Tokyo restaurant dedicated to vampires; then to Portland for a meal at the former home of a mad scientist before heading to St. Louis for a taco restaurant that pays homage to horror films, death metal music and vegan food.

  • Michael Yo shows us that make-believe experiences can be tasty; a restaurant in New York City's Financial District where even the drinks grow on trees, with one wave of a magic wand!

  • Host Michael Yo takes us around the world to restaurants where a bird's eye view of Singapore is on display; diners feast on fresh seafood fifty-seven stories above the city.

  • Michael Yo circles the world for meals that can't, won't, and don't stop; a ride in a speedy elevator up a thousand feet to the highest revolving restaurant in Canada; soaring to Seattle for salmon on a giant spinning wheel.

  • Michael Yo goes underneath it all to find five of the unique dining adventures to go below and beyond; diving 20 feet under the sea for North Atlantic seafood in Norway before bellying up for braised crocodile feet in a Singapore speak.

  • Don't feed the animals at these dining establishments, unless they're your dinner companions; host Michael Yo joins some furry, feathered and ferocious friends for supper on the ocean floor with the sea life in the Maldives.

  • A history lesson in five culinary customs; from Mayan meat smoking in Mexico, to steaming fish with heat from ancient hot springs in Japan and American meaty meals served family style; a Viking feast; some pork roast at a Bavarian Gasthaus.

  • Kampung style food in the middle of a river; savoring indigenous food under a tent; traditional Greek dishes; the sunset at a restaurant in Mexico; and dinner in a private hut in a Thai pond where entrées are delivered via a remote-controlled boat.

  • A wild ride in the desert on a horse for a dinner with no frills; fishing for food indoors in Tokyo; somen noodles take a ride on the roaring rapids in Kyoto; tacos and target practice in Washington D.C.; rodeo action and BBQ satisfaction in Arizona.

  • An NYC 1920s style speakeasy; mid-century reminder of a time when airplane food was actually delicious in Palm Springs; a Titanic themed event where diners feast like the passengers on that fateful ship; dining like nobility in Ireland.
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Viewers are taken on a tour of some of the most unusual and unique restaurants-where food is just one part of the experience.

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