Destination Flavour Japan

  • Premiered: Sep 2013
  • Episodes: 10
  • Followers: 3
  • Ended
  • SBS
  • Tuesday at 20
  • Documentary Food Travel

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Season 1
1x1
Hokkaido
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 19, 2013
Adam heads to Hokkaido, known by Australians for its snow, but to the Japanese it is a gourmet paradise known for extraordinary cold-water seafood and dairy farming. Adam meets a dairy .. show full overview
1x2
Tohoku
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 26, 2013
Adam Liaw goes to sea with the Japanese fishermen who caught the "million dollar tuna", and then meets the soy sauce maker who saved most of his staff from the 2011 tsunami.
1x3
Hokuriku
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 03, 2013
In his wife’s hometown, Adam Liaw uncovers the secrets to superb sake, samples some of the world’s best sushi and prepares a classic Japanese dish with his mother-in-law.
1x4
Nagoya
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 10, 2013
Adam Liaw discovers and devours some of the finest miso, Nagoya chicken and Wagyu beef in Japan, before meeting a 74-year-old who free-dives for precious abalone.
1x5
Tokyo
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 17, 2013
In the vast urban sprawl of Tokyo, Adam Liaw explores a food culture that not only sustains the "salaryman" workers in style, but retains the culinary traditions of the annual Cherry Blossom Festival.
1x6
Tokyo - Part II
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 24, 2013
Adam Liaw explores the restaurants of food-crazy Tokyo to find food as diverse as yakitori made from the reproductive organs of chickens to a degustation delight called "soil 2013".
1x7
Kyoto
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 31, 2013
In Kyoto, traditional Japanese culture is thriving (as is the food scene), so when Adam Liaw takes us on a journey of discovery, we meet a tea master, a Maiko and Michelin star chef who turns risotto into sushi.
1x8
Osaka
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 07, 2013
Adam Liaw explores Japan’s high-energy financial centre, Osaka, and finds the world’s best fast food, a sumo wrestler turned chef and soba noodles to die for.
1x9
Kyushu and Shikoku
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 14, 2013
In Japan’s southern islands, Kyushu and Shikoku, Adam Liaw finds a vibrant, warm culture where old ladies use iPads to harvest the forests, organic farmers grow fruit for their pigs, and the cuisine is as fascinating as its people.
1x10 Show finale
Okinawa
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 21, 2013
In this, the final episode of Adam Liaw’s culinary expedition through Japan, we meet the people of Okinawa and discover an eclectic cuisine derived from Chinese, American, Thai, Japanese and Korean influences, and learn the secret to long life.

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