I'll have to watch this again. I've been following Bourdain for many years, and while this episode didnt show as much food and as many local haunts as I would have liked, I think they did a good job showing the juxtaposition. You have to get to know your enemy somewhat before you can fight him. I feel like he let Lee-Chin and Blackwell dig their own hole and posited that it doesn't have to and shouldn't be that (for elites only) way. If this was ten years ago, he might have gone after them a little more but even he's admitted getting softer over the eyars.