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Host Danielle Chang explores Asian cuisine's impact on American food culture in this series produced by the Center for Asian American Media. Traveling across the United States and Asia, Chang meets a new generation of chefs and entrepreneurs dedicated to keeping Asian traditions alive. Segments include the ramen culture in New York and Tokyo; chef Sang Yoon breaks down the basics of Korean cooking; chef Jet Tila recalls when his family opened America's first Thai grocery store; Filipino cuisine; and the evolution of Chinese food in America.

Upcoming Episodes

  • Comfort

    The importance of comfort food; making Chinese food at home with the help of cooking blogs such as The Woks of Life; young chefs reimagine Taiwanese and Indonesian classics. (30 minutes)

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  • To Chinatown, With Love

    Touring the oldest restaurants in Manhattan's Chinatown; Mei Lum evolves her family's heritage business; chefs Helen Nguyen and Winston Chiu feed local residents in need. (30 minutes)

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  • Paradise on a Plate

    Harvesting fruit at Kahuku Farms; chef Mark Noguchi prepares an epic potluck dinner; chef Alan Wong creates a tuna poke; a fish auction that regulates, markets and preserves Honolulu's fishing industry. (30 minutes)

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  • Feeding the Family Tree

    A 12-year-old cooks for his family; a chef prepares an array of the Korean staples known as banchan; a meal delivery service provides a classic Asian pregnancy and postpartum diet. (30 minutes)

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  • Koreatown U.S.A.

    New York and Los Angeles are home to the two largest Korean populations in the U.S.; chef Sang Yoon breaks down the basics of Korean cooking; a woman receives her first Korean cooking lesson from Maangchi. (30 minutes)

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  • Chinatown, Reimagined

    The evolution of Chinese food in America; Wilson Tang opens a fine dining Chinese restaurant in New York's Chinatown; Ed Schoenfeld prepares Peking duck; Hakkasan. (30 minutes)

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  • Bay Area's Pacific Rim Cuisine

    Google's first sit-down restaurant; an indoor vertical farm services restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area; tofu factory. (30 minutes)

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  • Food as Cultural Collision

    The Chinese government takes over Mister Softee; the Brooklyn Brewery uses Japanese hops from Jeju Island; The Fung Brothers visit a New Yorker reinventing the Shanghainese soup dumpling. (30 minutes)

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  • Food as Global Locavore

    Exploring the farm-to-table movement at Dragon Well Manor in China's Hangzhou region and Sang Lee Farms in New York's North Fork (Long Island). (30 minutes)

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  • Generasians

    A fourth-generation Japanese-American farm; America's oldest tofu shop gets a new owner; a mother-son relationship built on food and heritage; Hollywood cafe that is part culinary hotspot, part Asians-in-Hollywood history exhibit. (30 minutes)

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