Lucky Chow

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.

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UPCOMING EPISODES

Sat, 5/10 at 1:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS HDTV

Texasian

Three brothers make Texas barbecue in Houston; a chef gives traditional Gulf crawfish boil a spicy, wok-fried Vietnamese twist; a pho master turns traditional broth into America's new comfort soup.

Fri, 5/16 at 8:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Fri, 5/16 at 8:30 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Fri, 5/16 at 9:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Fri, 5/16 at 9:30 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Fri, 5/16 at 10:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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).

Fri, 5/16 at 10:30 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Fri, 5/16 at 11:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Fri, 5/16 at 11:30 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Sat, 5/17 at 12:00 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Sat, 5/17 at 12:30 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.