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Knife store near tsukiji market in Tokyo. I got a new sharpening stone.

To replace one that went AWOL

Some of the best Japanese food I've ever had in my life. At a random restaurant in Tsukiji fish market

I had this at like 7:30 am in the morning. Super fresh because they
are right besides ones of the largest wholesale fish market in the
world.

A pink duck masterpiece by my friend Tomoko Hosaka

Setting up the mics for the chef behind General Tso and his son.

Ian Cheney is doing the mics.

Setting up the lights for an interview. My goal is to get a Best Boy credit in IMDB

Involves electrical duties.

Some of the strangest urinals I've seen. With screens. And square.

At Peng's Agora Garden in Taipei.

Moving all the camera gear at the Taipei airport.

Its amazing how much gear is involved.

CK Peng, the man behind General Tso's chicken, and Henry Kissenger. One of the chickens biggest fans.

From the 1970s

Filming the making of general tso's chicken. At the restaurant of its inventor.

This has gotta be one of the best documented dishes of General Tso's chicken ever. At Peng's Agora Garden. Of CK Peng. Now 93 years old.

Wall o'chicken. Poultry. So photogenic yet funny. What else is like that?