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

1Season 1

Lucky Chow: Season 1 (2015): Episode 1 - Ramen Mania

January 1, 2015

Lucky Chow series premiere.

1Season 2

Lucky Chow: Season 2 (2017): Episode 1 - Trending Japanese

January 1, 2017

Season 2 premiere.

1Season 3

Lucky Chow: Season 3 (2019): Episode 1 - Food as Cultural Collision

January 1, 2019

Season 3 premiere.

5Season 3

Lucky Chow: Season 3 (2019): Episode 5 - Food as AZN

March 4, 2019

Chefs, entrepreneurs and cultural ambassadors from the Canal Street Market and Bubble T dance party offer views on the future of Asians in the mainstream.

6Season 3

Lucky Chow: Season 3 (2019): Episode 6 - Food as Beauty

March 11, 2019

Charlotte Cho, co-founder of Soko Glam, discusses the K-Beauty boom in America; conversations with women leading the charge in the cosmetics and skincare industry.

1Season 4

Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 1 - Generasians

May 2, 2020

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.

2Season 4

Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 2 - Healing

May 9, 2020

The idea of functional food; stories of people looking to heal the body, spirit and global community one meal at a time.

3Season 4

Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 3 - Innovators

May 16, 2020

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.

4Season 4

Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 4 - Hybrids

May 23, 2020

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.

5Season 4

Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 5 - Curators

May 31, 2020

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.

6Season 4

Lucky Chow: Season 4 (2020): Episode 6 - Comfort

June 7, 2020

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.