Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown S05E07 2015 1080p WEB DL H264 AAC DDHDTV

[Music] my great fear as a kid was a fear of failing and that's aai in cuz I was born that way cuz that's expectation you're Hawaiian you're going to be less you're Hawaiian you're going to fail more and so it's old it's in you it's part of your [Music] identity but when I navigate a voyage I know when the storm comes and it's going to take you to the Bone and if the storm keeps coming you got to stand up it's just what you got to do and it's this Zone where you learn to make feel your best friend you hold it really close to you and you open up that door to believeing that you can make it I took a walk to this beautiful world felt theol on my shoulder found something good beautiful I felt the rain getting colder [Music] [Music] Hawaii is America as American as anything could possibly be yet it also never shed what was there before and the layers and layers that have come since it's a wonderful tricky conflicted mutant hell broth in what for lack of a better word you'd have to call Paradise nowhere is Paradise paradises don't exist Paradise is kind of in your head wait wait a minute you look at your window here you look at those Hills those mountains all that green that blue sky and gin clear sea it it sure looks like paradise to me this guy knows he's been everywhere he's Paul THU novelist essayist and legendary traveler and travel writer of all places he's been all the places he's seen he chose Hawaii to live and he's lived here for 25 years does it matter that it's America no that's a big thing that it is America it has elements of the third world the nicest elements of the third world which is funky uh there's this the self-respect there's Pride there's things that don't work at all and then it's Main Street USA where we are now I mean this PTA meetings here they get together and watch the a Super Bowl and it's the most Main Street USA or as much as you will find town is a neighborhood spot in honolulu's kamuk District and as Hawaii is the only state in the Union that allows dayboat fishermen to sell directly to restaurants the pan roasted mahi mahi is pretty damn good it's not a particularly welcoming or friendly part of the world contrary to the sort of the Aloha myth that's right that's right but no island is Nantucket isn't the Isle of white isn't non an island they want foreigners in cor Sicily they want foreigners there no way no way did anyone ever come to an island uh with a good intention people people no never in the history of the world best best case scenario brings CIS yeah pretty much yeah yeah I mean at the very least Captain Cook put his Sailors ashore in which is just a little bit Northwest of here he was the first howy and like mellin Hawaii killed its first tourist and Philippines kill their Forest tourist but people who live on island who are born on Islands view anyone who comes ashore with [Music] suspicion but go back to the what defines a Hawaiian maybe we should go back in our imaginations to could have been 2,000 years ago the tahan had this voin k way before any other culture on the planet was exploring the deep seas somehow gets here someplace in the South Pacific single most isolated archipel in the planet fast forward to Captain Cook and his identification of native mind you get a glimpse of these are very productive people they were industrious they were healthy strong they had time for the Arts that was a large population more than half of what we have in Hawaii today fully sustainable cuz there was no a choice so over time the native wine population goes to 22,000 it's the same story introduce disease and inability to to deal with it people die 1926 the public school system would outlaw language and the practice of culture in public schools so the road to Extinction is being well paid between Captain Cook's arrival in 1778 and today disease wiped out most of the population missionaries came a booming sugar and pineapple plantation industry an influx of immigrants from Japan okanawa China and the Philippines there was the overthrow of queen lilio colani and the US takeover of the Hawaiian government World War II and finally [Music] statehood the geographical realities of being thousands of miles from well anywhere else has given Hawaii to some degree protection from the forces that eradicated so many other South Pacific cultures entirely in fact they've arguably been holding back the inevitable creep better than just about anyone what Hawaii looks like today depends on which island you're standing on and to some extent the reputation of the locals the Hawaiian Islands are not a monolith Islands that's plural and we are talking eight very different islands with very different identities it's been over a century since the waves of immigrants began and things got all mixed up in the best possible way there's layers and a simple question like who is Hawaiian gets you all kinds of answers the neighborhood of khi is a far cry from the Hawaii that most people know and Ethel has been a go-to of a very specific kind for the last 40 years Blue Collar town you know they all come here breakfast lunch every day I'm joined by two local chefs Mark nuchi of mission known by some as the GC he's second generation Japanese and Andrew Le of the pig and the lady he's first generation Vietnamese American or would that be Vietnamese Hawaiian as you'll see it gets complicated I actually cooked on the East Coast for 3 years and people would always be like oh you're from Hawaii you're Hawaiian and I was like no no no no I'm I'm a second generation Japanese no no but you're from Hawaii it makes you hawaian and it was like No And then what I realized is like here in Hawaii we identify ourselves ethnically versus geographically like there's no way that he and I would call ourselves Hawaiian we get our ass kicked by a Hawaiian how many generations does it take I mean who qualifies as Hawaiian in your view to me a Hawaiian is a kakami it's a native of the land it's in your blood you're Coco you come from a lineage of native hne people what what what's your feeling here I do feel like I'm Hawaiian in a sense you know cuz like my place uh but culturally it's a different story well let me ask you this you say you're not Hawaii no what's your feeling about spam I love I love so you're Hawaii I'm from Hawaii I I'm born and raised going to die 808 the owners of ethol are a sort of typical Hawaiian mix okan roko isi AKA mom Mainland Japanese husband yoichi daughter AK a who I guess would be Japanese okan American SL Hawaiian and son-in-law Robert who is of course Mexican W that's that pig feet oh nice that's pretty oh wow look at that that's a tri a tri that's a tri that looks good spaming B Melon now we are talking wow looks awesome I just call it local food you know but local food just like covers like a wide that when I look at this table again I just you got Portuguese Japanese you got okina World War II I don't know some type Korean Korean Japanese Hawaiian love child of Awesomeness the food is some bone deep Hawaiian stuff my friends which is to say a delicious mashup of well look take taco rice it's a dish created in okanawa to approximate TexMex for homesick American GIS that was in appropriated in a post ironic Way by younger generations of okan aans and Japanese and has now found its way back to Hawaii got that P right in there wow identifying and seeing my best friends who are native Hawaiian helped me to realize the pride of being from Hawaii understanding the Hawaiian culture living it but also being very proud of being Japanese there's still a movement to a sovereign a sovereign movement so if fighting broke out in the streets which side are you on I'm getting tear gas you're getting teargas you don't even have to think about that you but you know what's funny what I I always joke about is like if like nation of Hawaii took it back right and IED Uncle Sam my whole end there was like no no no Hawaii is for Native Hawaii's only now I'm like hey everybody needs a cook like I'm a cook I have [Music] worth this is NOOA Thompson and in 1976 along with a number of similarly heroic Hawaiians he did a very difficult very important thing before 1972 it was generally assumed even insisted upon that Hawaii had been settled originally by some random Savages who'd maybe drifted over accidentally from South America it certainly couldn't have been ancient Polynesians they couldn't possibly have been the kind of sophisticated Navigators who could guide a sailboat with F across the Pacific across thousands of miles of Open Water nobody could see the canoe here two beaten knocked out of you no dreams no hope can't see the Polynesian voyaging Society with the help of crew members like naoa Thompson set out to prove that that was exactly what did happen there were those in in the community that loved this canoe prayed for it and there was those that feared this good cuz they sensed change you have a 62 foot 12ton voyen canoe I mean it was powerful it changed everything the Hokulea a Double H hold sailing canoe a replica of the kind of craft believed to have been used in those times and using only primitive contemporaneous navigational tools sailed 5,500 Mi to Tahiti and back a trip that helped spark a Hawaiian Renaissance a rebirth of Pride and interest in traditional Hawaiian culture and identity the success was Monumental it changed world viw that our ancestors were powerful they were extraordinar intelligent they were courageous and they were skilled and so we come from them Thompson is a legendary Waterman and he's continued to sail on hua's missions native Hawaiian his roots in this Valley go back 200 years my grandfather was born here so I gr up knocking C with my grandpa he spent many years learning traditional Polynesian navigation techniques from a master ma pyo of the small micronesian island of sowal this is a man that was chosen by his grandfather at one-year-old he was put into the typos to be trained in learning the wind and the water and 5 years old he was sailing with his grandfather and then he would never say that some sense of abuse but only love he says yeah when the wave make the canoe move the canoe make me sick my grandfather throw me in the ocean so I can go inside the wave and when I go inside the wave I become the wave and when I become the wave now I'm navigator at 5 so when I approached him he just said to me you're too old you want someone to know everything send your son to My Island but he said I'll teach you enough to find the island you seek but I can't teach you the magic why do you think it was important to do such a difficult thing is mean it's the same story that you can see in everywhere everywhere in terms of indigenous people my father's mother nearly pure Hawaiian chooses not to teach her children language or culture or genealogy where do you come from who's your family what's your link what and and that could have been 100 Generations what the voyage did was a reconnection back to feeling wholesome about who you are because knowing where you come from and who are your ancestors so hok when it got to Tahiti it was their canoe this wasn't our canoe it was theirs and so that it started to ignite this flame again symbolic a bumper sticker a t-shirt start to emerge I'm proud to be Hawaiian 1987 it becomes the first language it's mandatory in the schools wine culture has to be taught in public schools private schools will not have attendance if you don't teach wine right now its Hawaiian identity is into everything it's has to be recognized in everything you're going to go to Malay yeah that Community is powerful when I mentioned to people locals in aahu in Maui other Hawaiian residents that I was going to Malachi the response was almost always surprise Mali did not have a reputation for being welcoming that it was dangerous to go over there that those Mali dudes were mean inward-looking unfriendly tough as iron and quick to get pissed off as it turned out that was not my experience so we like to brag about what we don't have we don't have traffic lights we don't have a building over three stories we don't have traffic nice Walter noi is a skilled fisherman and today we're headed out for some octopus you know M's nickname right it's called The Friendly Island yeah but it's famously not the friendly Island it's it's it's supposed to be the most unfriendly Island I mean that's what everybody says right depend which one you look at traditionally we're very very friendly now unfriendly is when you going to try to come and fix it right make it better right or try to take something right that's why become unly the moai people have been protective of what their resources so we have a lot of our natural resources still intact still yes but then there's always lot of people want to come unsurprisingly fishing rights is an issue around here don't come over here sport fishing the wrong place if you know what's good for you so Tony this is basically where we going to die this area s this spot okay ready go ahead let go okay we are here man [Music] when we get into the octopus we're going to coach him out of his hole so when you stick the sphar in there you're going to make a feel he's not safe no more when he comes running out there you want to stick with a [Music] sphar final step stun the struggling creature with a sharp Blow from a mallet or if you want to go old school bite him right in the [Music] brain in my case it took repeated crunching to locate the Apparently chicklet sized organ it's going to come to you take your time this one died eventually as likely by exhaustion as anything else I [Music] suspect you're hero today [Music] while the sailing canoe the Hoka was a powerful spark for the Hawaiian Renaissance this was what really set things off beginning in 1941 and continuing into the 70s and Beyond the US Navy had been using the beautiful neighboring island of Kaho olave as a bombing range you could feel the shock waves as far away as Maui and molai I'm B off my Hawaii blood and nobody going to tell me any different people had never been happy about it but emboldened by the times and by recent events a group of young activists decided to take a stand in 1976 there were a number of attempted occupations of the island in protests of the bombing none more successful than Walter ridy he and a fellow activist named Richard Sawyer set up on the island and refused to leave one day we're going to put one Queen back over there managing to evade pursuers for just over a month before finally being arrested and jailed and her first order is burn down this building and put up on Hal what belongs over here they emerged of course her us and these protests went on to inspire many others to join the movement I hope I'm still alive when that day happens because I want to see our Queen back in office and embodied the independent Spirit the desire for Hawaiian empowerment and sovereignty that today resonates across Generations welcome to what is supposedly the most unwelcoming place in [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] Hawaii Anthony come in come to my name is hanohano thank you so much nice to meet you please come inside HOH this is kav anui fish pond a shared community space with a sacred history hanoo is the caretaker of the fish pond he's a local community leader here on Malai also here is the famous Walter ridy everybody knows how valuable all of this stuff is because we can see what happened to the rest of the island so essentially an old school Fish Farm 800 years old 800 years old modernizing one old idea m and an ancient idea is as simple as feeding your community and this the island you're on this place could feed over a million people back in the day you hear the word again and again on Malachi AA which means land and translates to that which feeds you Springs mountains rivers these lands these fish ponds were managed by their ancestors as a sacred trust here where fresh water from the mountains and fast moving ocean Waters met early sustainable Clean Fish Farms something in modern times we're still struggling to figure out cuz you heard what people think about us but the true story is that we have a place of abundance and we trying to protect it we're trying to protect all of these things that we've been able to protect for the last 30 years and it's getting hotter and hotter every single one of these Hawaiian over here get enough evidence that the state of Hawaii the department of land and natural resources have done a terrible job we're not even looking for blame we're actually looking for an agreement that from today right we all going to be porno we're all going to be righteous we're all going to be good our planet is in such uh bad shape that being environmental being green is trending and that's where the Hawaiian have always been so who gets to be Hawaiian this is the question who is Hawaiian Hawaiian is a nationality bro you could be Hing really come on don't sh me now yeah I got to I have to be born come on this is a different story I I can give you the best explanation because you cannot be our blood our blood is kanaka you cannot be kanaka hawaian is our nationality and you can pledge for be that you see this what we standing on our it matters so much that if you love this place and you don't want to develop it destroy it abuse it we the same team yeah if you eying this place and its resources as a money-making uh vehicle for yourself we enemies right and it doesn't matter what race religion what sex you if you love this place and you can malama oura the way we love it and our ancestors loved it oh we can be more than friends but we can be family you you know beautifully played wow that's it right on right on bro it's a pretty impressive spread of food for such a supposedly sirly group slow roasted pig grilled CIF fish mullet cooked Laval Lo style and of course octopus known as squid blow fresh POI you got to have it fresh believe me makes all the difference in the world fresh water snails called I believe HEI harvested from streams way up in the mountains is a bounty the Bounty the Bounty of our ocean and our Mountain that sque octop the one you otimus oh hey you bit his eye right there right I I I recognize [Music] you Anthony when when somebody steals this it's easy for us to say stealing our stuff right but all of this stuff is dependent on one healthy environment and ecosystem all right but then let me ask you just cuz I'm a bit of a dick I have to ask this question I have to ask it I have to ask all right so we have like 12 more beers and I pull out some nice bamui I eat them right I look at me I'm going to eat them but this that doesn't mean it's right and doesn't mean that's what I'm going to feed my children our culture made everything we did the best of the best Hawaii are the only one that turned tarot into point you know I mean we did everything to the best of the best so if you can introduce spam to us we're going to do him the best you introduce Christianity to us we're going to do him the [Laughter] best our Christianity is better than yours I love it know so You' really disappointed to be you in no way lived up to your reputation as mean unwelcoming inward-looking hostile come on admit it it's a calculated strategy it is and I'll leave with a message if you're watching this show I hope your heart is swelling with admiration but bottom line don't come here yeah [Laughter] [Music] yeah hey he [Music] hey the ocean is all around for thousands of miles a humbling feeling knowing at all times that the ground upon which you live and walk and breathe is but a tiny Speck in the middle of all this so in Hawaii the Waterman is an important distinction it expresses the shared consensus that you were able to handle yourself in the ocean no matter what it throws at you it implies that you were capable of almost mythical things the ability to live in the water handle its many moods above or below the [Music] surface meet Uncle Ross Waterman a canoe surfing Legend and generally accepted ambassador of the Aloha Spirit he offered to share with me a truly ancient Hawaiian space found only on the face of a crashing [Music] [Music] wave surfing a life connected to the ocean and spending time with family and friends friend on the beach some of the cornerstones of Hawaiian life oh this is our Chef this is Jason how are you man and Tony that's uh kiola hey how are you all right you good yes sir colani how do you do how are you kave what's going on Hi Megan hello those are my two daughters this is my wife Alicia well hello hi Brandon come say hi hey Brandon how are you and uh Milton this is Milton Milton good to meet you so how old does everybody know each other here we live on an island everybody knows everybody okay that's why did I even ask it's just the way you I think I met Uncle Ross through the water I mean just surfing at Lop Poco and then we became like family yeah he's like my and he's like my dad my Ohana each and every weekend uncle Ross can be found here with his Ohana a Hawaiian word that describes an extended circle of family and close friends man nice we got lucky today it's a beautiful day beautiful day y when it's storming it's nice on the beach yeah yeah and we'll stay here until that thing goes down hits the Horizon when that Sun hits the Horizon it's that's time to go home Maui is an island as beautiful as it gets and sure it's got its share of portion controlled Cruise Line entertainments dled out in digestible bites and complimentary my ties but you'll also find a sort of beloved indigenous institution like tasty crust ascal a place as you're likely to find Daniel ikao will explain this is a menu situation or I can order for you if you trust me I think we're going to hook you up with the the local flavor so okay I Trust You Raised on the big island he's a journalist the first native Hawaiian editor of a major surf publication and founder of the local contrast magazine local culture is very much so trying to point a finger at anybody coming in go hey you're Hol you don't belong and then therein kind of Lies a little conflict you have being a modern-day Hawaiian and I still think that something that we forget about these days is how educated and how accepting our Cuna our ancestors were it was always built on inclusivity Aloha mhm Aloha is giving without expecting anything in return you got this Hawaiian culture that was a product of the Polynesians that populated the islands then you got this local culture that's a product of the plantation lifestyle so the Japanese the Chinese the Koreans the Filipinos the Portuguese if indeed all history can be explained by what's on your plate this is a prime example behold [ __ ] the plate lunch the most identifiable and essential feature of the plate lunch is this a big scoop or two of white rice and potato Max salad there is nothing more Hawaiian served alongside a protein like chicken KATU or this hamburger steak a burger like Patty drowned in dark Sinister sticky shiny gravy or faki AI seared AI with Nori and sesame seed oh my gosh that looks beautiful oh yeah that's going to work all right just I sit this right on top of the rice yeah you want to get some mac salad too on there too going to get that Sinister gravy on oh dude look what we're eating okay they may not be Hawaiian but they are now they are fundamentally local I mean this food this most delicious let's be honest delicious this is not healthy eating and we're kind of paying the price for it right now in the health of the state which is terrible as I take a bite of hamburger and like I said it's just so good if you really want to do Hawaii right you got to give back and that's a power that Hawaii and the AA still has is if you show Aloha and you give without asking the AA is going to recognize it and it's going to shower its blessings upon you so you think traditional Hawaiian culture and lifestyle has a chance against the modern world I think so the beautiful part about my ancestors is they realized there was a limited number of resources where they lived so they observed nature to the best possible they could to figure out what were the cycles and how do we preserve this resource Hawaiian culture can teach the whole world something that it needs to know is we all live on our Island and we are all part of the same Community let's all show Aloha to the AA and let's show ala to everybody else as well [Music] [Music] an extraordinary man lives in this house Shep Gordon longtime resident on Maui legendary talent manager maybe you know some of the people whose careers he's looked after Alice Cooper Teddy Pendergrass Luther vandros Blondie Pink Floyd he was years years ahead of the chef explosion shepher in Emerald through his early career he's produced films worked alongside great friendch chefs like Roger ver basically done everything with everybody in every place I first got here 40 years ago I put one foot on the island I knew I was living here the rest of my life you ever look out there and it's just it's wallpaper never ever I say it out loud every day my first words in the morning uh thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you every day Chef is famously one of the most generous and enthusiastic of hosts a more standup guy you could barely imagine and it's no wonder they call the documentary based on his life super mench that's how he's known around the world here he's known as that guy who throws great parties prep starts early with Chef's friend Julio a Maui born and bred Rancher with help from local Chef Sheldon Simeon middle of the night and a traditional emu is dug filled with lava rock the fire allowed to burn down to coals before the pig wrapped in a combination of banana leaves and tea leaves is dropped in okay you guys ready for the unveiling here we go all right 12 hours later you dig them up and Will it's party time so what you've been saying is you've been drinking steadily since 5:00 this morning I didn't it didn't come out of my mouth okay behold the magnificence okay take this off this a very important part of your childhood wow look at that you just lift those bones out by hand yep right je you ready oh you just dump them into a bucket awesome [Music] wow wow that's pretty much the way I want to end up yeah just be able to pour me right into a pot there's lots to do and everyone pitches in to help it's an extended all day Affair of prepping chopping dicing slicing mixing and of course there's some sampling along the way like this wild pig sausage that someone was nice enough to stop by with Sheldon works up a potato Max salad not going to do it one more time okay hit you one more time Julio carves up some unicorn fish which he caught himself earlier in the day Chef Mark Tarbell stuffs a couple of fresh red snappers before throwing them in the oven there's poy pounded fresh out back and somewhere somewhere pigs foot soup is happily bubbling away hey CH Chili Pepper water pepper water wa why do I want to do this there's Chili Pepper water used for dipping or taken as an auxiliary shot for regularity or boner medicine or whatever woo oh yeah there's also spam noodles there is no party without [Music] spam by dinner time the beer wine and festive beverages have been flowing for hours also moods have been adjusted in a completely natural way indigenous to the islands of course how about Julio and the pigs oh man I've cooked a lot of pigs I ain't never seen went poured into into a pot neatly that's what I love this is what we do in the islands that's what it's all about and always bring the Ohana bring the family bring the kids you know you rarely ever see a party where there aren't kids Ohana means family extended family extended family yeah like you're now Ohana to everybody here oh I mean if you going to be ative you can borrow money from you [Music] and as happens I've come to find out things end up in the most natural just kind of happens Way song and some [Music] dancing this is Willie K and that's his daughter Lisette and it's pretty damn captiv oh [Music] it's getting near the end for me and I look over at Shep and I see a happy man surrounded by Friends by family really his Ohana [Music] to be Hawaiian to me needs to be some kind of sense of connection to place and some sense of responsibility for it this issue of being about being honest to place and being honest to what you love and be honest to what you value is a road that's constantly trying to be more and more informed I don't even know sometimes how to be fully honest cuz I don't know enough what I love about the oceans that's my pathway that I go on the oceans to seek that sense of [Music] Truth they said I could see whales like close up and I had reasons for optimism all week I've been staring out to seed watching humpback whales leaping out of the ocean spouting and frolicking so are things compared to other parts of the world our conservation efforts as far as uh marine mammals in general but whales particularly going well is this so that's the one thing on the planet that is they're talking about taking humpbacks off the endangered species list but it's good to hear that they recovered but then it may make it easy to add to the Wailing list again it's mating season in Hawaii for the nearly 10,000 humpback whales that migrate down from Southeast Alaska each year Dr Joe Moy of the University of Hawaii has dedicated his career to studying these whales yeah I guess the song is supposed to be like the most complex display in the animal kingdom when you're close to a singer you can actually feel it through your whole body it's like 185 DB really loud wow they don't mind us at all do they [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we got it amazing that was that was incredible unbelievable [Music]