Планета вкусов - Season 3

Anton Zaitsev wants to investigate how people of the peninsula use chestnuts for cooking while in many countries they don't even consider edible. Also, he will set up a bold experiment to find out which food will be the winner: Russian or Italian!

The Udmurts were first mentioned in the annals called "Tale of the Vyatka". This is quite an exciting story of the Novgorod army, which in year 1181 "beat many outlanders and enemies, and they scattered around the forests." Anton Zaitsev tries to find an Udmurt dish that was popular those days, and also find out what interesting culinary traditions of the Vyatka have survived to the present!

Hong Kong is lagging behind other countries and cities - but only with regard to the holidays! New Year is celebrated here a month later than worldwide. Anton Zaitsev discovers Hong Kong New Year traditions and of course tries to find some interesting holiday dishes!

The name Hong Kong means "a fragrant harbor", so aromas of excellent dishes are by far an integral part of this city.

Nowruz is celebrated on March 21 on the day of the vernal equinox and the celebration lasts a whole week. This is a very joyful holiday. Winter is over, sunny days are coming, a new life and new hopes begin. Food plays a very important role during Novruz. Anton Zaitsev tries to find the most popular dish of Azerbaijani Novruz and hunt out some other holiday recipes!

Anyone who travels the world in search of interesting dishes should always be hungry. Nothing is easier than getting hungry here, in Baden-Württemberg! Rich feast, friendly locals, quite cheap but incredibly delicious food - and all travelers are welcome. Anton Zaitsev wants to find out how to get hungry properly and how to still hunger with maximum pleasure for a stomach!

Macau has been a Portuguese colony for nearly five hundred years. Here, Asians and Europeans have been living side by side for hundreds of years, assimilating and enriching each other's traditions, including cooking recipes. Anton Zaitsev goes to the "special administrative region of the PRC" to find some rather interesting dishes of Portuguese Macau!

Anyone who ends up in Sardinia at the end of April will believe in everything that's written in "Time Machine"! Why? Because of the festival of St. Efisio, the defender of the island. Anton Zaitsev goes to Sardinia to find a very special historical dish, which recipe has not changed for 358 years, and try the food that was enjoyed in the Middle Ages.

Anton Zaitsev goes to Sydney to find out how much Australian cuisine really differs from ours and try the most popular dishes of the Green Continent!

The name of Kazan city comes from the russian word "kazan" which means "a cauldron". The legend says that many years ago one sorcerer ordered to build a great city in a place where the cauldron set on the ground would boil without fire. And, surprisingly, such a place was found!

Anton Zaitsev goes in search of traditional Macau cuisine and finds... the "nouyou tipan chaomin". This is a dish that has been prepared in this city long before the Europeans arrived. It really is Macau's original dish and a legacy of Chinese culture - food which an ordinary tourist can't found that easily!

As you might know, the Vikings were very harsh people. Anton Zaitsev goes to the homeland of this ancient warriors - Norway, to find one rather special fish dish cooked according to an old recipe. Can he find the courage to try terrifying lute fisk and some other unusual delicacies?

Sardinians always claim their "autonomy" from the rest of Italy. They have their own language and customs but what is more important - they also have culinary traditions and recipes that you can not find anywhere else. Some of these traditions are completely prohibited by European laws! Anton Zaitsev wants to find out how to hunt and cook a shark and also how, after all, Sardinians relate to sardines. And finally he is going to break the law... just a little!

Anton Zaitsev goes in search of purely Australian products and dishes that were invented on the Green Continent. Now he has to taste a kangaroo tail and the most expensive nut in the world, and also find out what cowboys usually have for lunch!

Anton Zaitsev continues his journey across the Green Continent. He discovers a secret auction where gourmets have some rather hot fights for fish, explores unique seafood at the highest point of Sydney and finds out what kind of dishes are served on the biggest Australian beach!

What dish is cooked in the largest pan in Bulgaria? How do microbes change a nation's taste? And why do Bulgarians walk on coal? Anton Zaitsev goes to the Country of Roses to find answers to all these questions!

Anton Zaitsev goes to the land of the Vikings to find the most unusual fish dishes you've ever seen and the most extreme food he's ever tasted in his life!

Today we are going to cook an Italian dish "spaghetti alle buzara". To do this, Anton Zaitsev goes to Trieste, a port city on the Adriatic coast. He will ride on the strangest tram in the world, find the favorite cake of James Joyce, discovers how fast food looked like in the 19th century and enter a secret laboratory at pasta factory!