What exactly is it about Tony Bourdain that you want to copy? Just traveling around the world eating? Anyone can do that; have money, can travel. Being on television doing it? Read the book first (
A Cook's Tour; In Search of the Perfect Meal) -- you'd better find someone to pay for you to do it. Oh, and while you're at it, read
Kitchen Confidential and his novels
Bone in the Throat and
Gone Bamboo. You'll get an idea then of his dreamt-of swash-buckling persona.
I DO respect Chef Bourdain, but "going out on the edge of the culinary world"? No, not really. Almost everything he mentions can be had here in the good old U.S. of A. Maybe after you finish at J&W you should just spend some time traveling around THIS country, going to places like Minneapolis/St. Paul where there are lots of Hmong, or the East or West Coasts where there are many people who left Hong Kong and the mainland, or the Detroit area with its large Arab population, or Texas which has an incredible mix now of people of different ethnic backgrounds
(right, Panini?).
Sorry, but it sounds like you are a bit too TV-oriented. How about reading some books first and then searching out the resources discussed?