Bourdain visits the Bay Areas of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose to take a personal journey – in martial arts training with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor Kurt Osiander, and healing through food, featuring dinner at the original Trader Vic's with author Sean Wilsey (Oh the Glory of it All) and at soul food restaurant Real Miss Ollie's with Bobby Seale (Black Panthers founding member).

After a 10 year absence, Bourdain abides by his promise to return, dining on chicken rendang for a reunion meal at Aunty Aini's, taking a boat ride to Kuching, traveling back to the longhouse at Entalau to attend the Gawai Rice Festival, and acquiring a new hand-tapped tattoo, prefaced by a stop in "street food paradise" Kuala Lumpur for pork noodles and black pepper crab.