Lucky Chow
An exploration of Asian cuisine's impact on food culture with Danielle Chang, Founder of the LUCKYRICE Festival, a nationwide showcase of Asian food culture in the United States, and innovative Asian chefs and personalities.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Danielle Chang
Cast:Danielle Chang , William Li
Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 1 - 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; a Hollywood cafe that is part culinary hot spot, part Asians-in-Hollywood history exhibit.
Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 2 - Healing
The idea of functional food; stories of people looking to heal the body, spirit and global community one meal at a time.
Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 3 - Innovators
Three women chefs in the Pacific Northwest; the founder of Pared; Robert Wang, inventor of the Instant Pot; chef Lucas Sin, founder of Junzi Kitchen.
Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 4 - Hybrids
Park's Filipino-American barbecue; JJ Johnson's Afro-Asian rice bowls; Llama San's unique Peruvian-Japanese flavors known as Nikkei cuisine; chef James Syhabout.
Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 5 - Curators
The editors of Banana, a magazine that gives voice to contemporary AZN culture; an urban rice paddy in New York; the Chinese cooking blog Omnivore's Cookbook; the future of Asian cocktail culture.
Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 6 - 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.
