Originally a one-hour documentary titled Bizarre Foods of Asia, repeated showings on the Travel Channel drew consistent, considerable audiences.

Bangkok: at Silver Palace, bird's nest soup with Hasma, Rambutan, grilled fresh frogs Chiang Mai: pork sausage, fruit bat.

At Balaw Balaw in Angono, Rizal: Balaw-balaw sauce, with fermented shrimp paste, soup Number Five (bull's rectum and testicles soup), uok in adobo, white worms from the larvae of crickets or beetles found in fallen coconut trees, crispy fried Alagaw leaves, ginatang bilo-bilo.

At Everybody's Café in San Fernando, Pampanga: Dinuguan, a blood stew, crickets of rice fields cooked in adobo style, Betute Tugak (stuffed frog with pork).

Otavalo: motes, roast pork with skin, fried cheese empanada, elixir with aloe vera, jugo de sabila, and vitamin extracts.

La Gardunya: Calf's brain, horchata Les Cols: Rooster comb risotto Ferran Adrià: El Bulli.

Maurice, Louisiana: Herbert's Specialty Meats, Turducken, Soop's: boudin, stuffed beef tongue New Orleans: Cochon restaurant, boudinballs, head cheese, smoked ox stew, deep fried chicken liver.

Borough Market, Roast restaurant, pigeon, ox heart grilled with bone marrow sauce, herring roes, Neil Yard Dairy, Stinking Bishop cheese Banger shop, fresh Italian gelato.

Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, Street food: roti stuffed with goat and liver, doubles, cow heel's soup.

Featuring special guest chefs Wolfgang Puck, Ben Ford and Ani Phyo and Los Angeles food blogger Eddie Lin [1].

In Addis Ababa, Zimmern shopped at Africa's largest market and in Harar he fed meat to wild hyenas.

Zimmern went lobster fishing with Linda Greenlaw and judged a Deathmatch Maine Bizarre Foods contest with his father, a native of Portland.

New episodes have been shot in Cartagena, Colombia; Lima, Peru; Ft. Worth, Texas; Copper River (Alaska); Nashville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; the Florida Keys; and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

It includes the following episodes: A second DVD set (2 discs) called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Collection 2 was released on October 7, 2008.