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Lucky Chow

Follow LUCKYRICE culinary festival founder Danielle Chang as she travels across America exploring the Asian food landscape, featuring many of the country’s most renowned chefs and culinary personalities.

STEEPED IN CULTURE

26m 46s

Taiwan is steeped in tea, as beverage, ritual and way of life. Danielle meets a tea grower who processes the most tender leaves by wok-frying them, and shares sips with an expert in the ceremony of brewing and drinking tea. A San Diego surfer displays the delicate tea pots he makes to honor his adopted culture, while the baristas at Odd One Out dispense gourmet bubble tea.

Episodes

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    STEEPED IN CULTURE

    S7 E704 - 26m 46s

    Taiwan is steeped in tea, as beverage, ritual and way of life. Danielle meets a tea grower who processes the most tender leaves by wok-frying them, and shares sips with an expert in the ceremony of brewing and drinking tea. A San Diego surfer displays the delicate tea pots he makes to honor his adopted culture, while the baristas at Odd One Out dispense gourmet bubble tea.

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    NIGHTLIFE

    S7 E703 - 26m 46s

    A lot of cities claim to never sleep, but Taipei makes good on that promise. Danielle visits a 24-hour prawn pool where she catches dinner and tours a popular night market, tracking down oyster omelets and shaved ice. At the port of Keelung she walks down a dark alleyway to a bar straight out of “In the Mood for Love,” where the local catch is served fresh from the nearby seafood market.

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    OFFERINGS

    S7 E702 - 26m 46s

    Taiwan’s earthly obsession with food has a spiritual dimension as an offering to the spirits who watch over the vulnerable island nation. Indigenous men of the Rukai tribe hunt for wild boar in the mountains, while in the rocky tidal zone the matriarchal Amis forage the sea’s bounty. At Buddhist temples, dizzyingly diverse vegetarian menus speak to how food can cultivate compassion and connection.

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    MADE IN TAIWAN

    S7 E701 - 26m 46s

    Across Taiwan, there’s a growing movement to produce familiar pantry staples – soy sauce, hot sauce, tofu, rice – in a hand-crafted way that respects the island’s legacy. Two brothers take over the family soy sauce factory; a tofu maker uses traditional methods, as well as water from a bubbling mud volcano; and a collective of young urbanites seek out a life farming rice.

Schedule

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    Lucky Chow

    Steeped in Culture

    Saturday
    May 24

    30 Minutes

    The ceremony of brewing and drinking tea in Taiwan; a tea grower processes tender leaves by wok-frying them; surfer displays the delicate tea pots he made to honor his adopted culture; baristas at Odd One Out dispense gourmet bubble tea.
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    Lucky Chow: TVSS: Iconic

    Lucky Chow

    Origins

    Friday
    May 30

    30 Minutes

    Visiting an Indigenous rights activist's lunch box canteen and cooking studio where a young couple perfect the sticky-rice confection kueh; lu rou fan; stinky tofu.

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