Gordon's odyssey begins in the north, home of our curry house classics.

Gordon's got a taste for adventure and heads off the tourist track into impenetrable north-east India, home of the country's best-kept culinary secrets. Leaving the 21st century behind, he immerses himself in the life of a local meat-loving tribe in Nagaland.

Gordon heads south to the coasts of Kerala for the ultimate seafood curry. In Tamil Nadu he hits a meat-free zone and faces his biggest culinary nightmare, living in an ashram where the only food on the menu is vegetarian.

Gordon touches down in Vietnam - he's never been here before but this nation are fearless foodies; if it moves they eat it and every bit of it!

In Ep 2 Gordon is going off the beaten track to Cambodia. After the years of Khmer Rouge rule and civil war the country was at year zero. Today the country is in recovery and the food is undergoing a revival. Gordon scours the country hunting out historic recipes that pre-date the Khmer Rouge rules.

In Ep 3 Gordon is in Malaysia where he quickly learns it's the women and not the chefs that rule the kitchens. Gordon's week is spent under the wing of some of the country's best female cooks. He's invited to cook his first Malaysian curry.

In Ep 4 Gordon is in Thailand, home of the UK's fasted growing favourite food. Before he's made it out of Bangkok Thailand's most celebrated TV Chefs signs Gordon up to a battle of the chefs on his TV show at the end of the week.