As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, Phil Rosenthal hasn’t been to a rustic in Asia for his Netflix meals journey collection “Any person Feed Phil” for the reason that “Singapore” episode of Season 4 aired in 2020. However with the Season 7 debut Friday, the “Everyone Loves Raymond” creator is again within the east with 4 out of eight episodes, together with an installment that includes one big bucket-list vacation spot Rosenthal has been anxiously dreaming about for years.

“I’ve all the time wished to go to India, so Mumbai was an actual thrill for me. I’ve all the time beloved Indian meals, I’ve so many lovely Indian buddies,” Rosenthal instructed Selection. “However there have been two issues that stored me away.”

First, he was “afraid” of the moral problems of doing his goofy bits in a rustic with such deep contrasts in its inhabitants’s way of life.

“They name Mumbai Most Metropolis as a result of it has every thing,” Rosenthal mentioned. “You have got unimaginable opulence subsequent to dire poverty. I used to be afraid of that. I used to be afraid of doing my light-hearted and loving present, the place I attempt to persuade you to go to every of those locations. How do I reconcile this? And it took me possibly this lengthy, by doing it in different episodes, the place you acknowledge that there are disparities and you then attempt to assist, which is what we attempt to do in each episode anyway. You attempt to go away the place a tiny bit higher than you discovered it. And that’s all we will do once we journey.”

Second, after his one-and-only episode of meals poisoning on the present, which befell on a visit to San Francisco in Season 4, he was a bit nervous about contracting an sickness in India based mostly on anecdotal proof.

“Many individuals instructed me that that they had gotten sick from the meals or the water there, so many individuals have instructed me, so I used to be afraid,” Rosenthal mentioned. “After which I used to be assured that we might be completely effective and that we might take each precaution. You realize, folks instructed me that that they had performed that, too, however they’ve nonetheless gotten sick so I used to be nonetheless a bit nervous.”

Within the Season 7 opener, Rosenthal makes it to Mumbai, which he says was “nicely well worth the journey” and the place he “didn’t get sick” in any respect. However simply in case he did, Netflix was ready: “If I did go down, we had been going to have a two-week break after Mumbai, so I might get better, if wanted.”

Different stops Rosenthal made — and averted meals poisoning in — in Season 7 of “Any person Feed Phil” embody: Washington, D.C., Kyoto, Iceland, Dubai, Orlando (the place he reveals you the “actual” metropolis eats outdoors of Disney World), Taipei (the “finest avenue meals” he’s ever had) and Scotland.