“The food, culture, landscape and smell; they’re all inseparable. From the hospitality and resilience of its people to its street food culture, Vietnam clearly won Bourdain over and kept him coming back. Offered to him by a local fisherman one summer, it sparked the young Bourdain’s love of adventurous eating. New York City, USAManhattan skyline | marchello74 / ShutterstockNew York was perhaps not exactly Bourdain’s favorite place, per se, and neither was it a travel destination. To me, this was what Bourdain's work was really about, as much as he would probably have disdained such starry-eyed dreaming.