Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown

Watch the top highlights of Season 5 of Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown.

Okinawa's pivotal location was key for maritime trade with China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia, whose combined influence shaped its culture through two distinct features: Okinawan cuisine and the martial arts. This isn't Japan‚it's somewhere different.

Tony first connects with Miami-Cuban businessman Hugo Cancio - a private entrepreneur. Hugo takes Tony for lunch at Santy's to indulge in a dish that would never have appeared on a Cuban menu before the country's latest transformation - sushi.

When one thinks of great American food towns Charleston, South Carolina is probably not high on the list. This is a mistake. For some time now, important things have been happening there largely thanks to one man: Sean Brock.

Despite a decade-long face lift, the fact is that the new museums and rejuvenated port still can't provide enough jobs. No matter - Marseille resists becoming bourgeois no matter how prettied up she gets. It is, at its heart, a poor multicultural city. It will never be Paris.

Tony travels to Malaysia to fulfill a decade-old promise to return to the Iban longhouse of Entalau deep in the jungles of Borneo. One of the Malaysia's oldest ethnic group, The Iban, were and continue to be - wanderers!

Like the rest of the country of Turkey, Istanbul is under construction. A construction boom and political reform are efforts to build a "New Turkey," advanced by Erdogan, (former Prime Minister until 2014) and his party, the AKP (Justice and Development Party).

The Bay Area has long been associated with a variety of hippie clichv©s: free love, peace, flowers of power, tofu. But one does not have to dig too deep beneath this crunchy exterior to find the real flesh and bones of the place: resistance, struggle, the good fight.