Today, what we watch can be just as appetizing as what we eat. From the Korean art of mukbang to viral sensations, artists both amateur and professional are using food as their medium of choice. We take a closer look at how being a foodie today is so much more than discovering the hottest new restaurant.

The culmination of Asian intertextuality: Mister Softee taken over by the Chinese government; Brooklyn Brewery is using Japanese hops; a New Yorker is reinventing the Shanghainese soup dumpling - in this episode we see how trends are born out of traditions.

It isn’t just recipes that get imported and exported between the East and West, but food practices. The farm to table movement is not at all uniquely American. We travel around China and the U.S. to see how widespread this movement to keep things local really is.

As bone broth and kombucha line the shelves of your local grocery store, we take a closer look at “food as medicine”. These currently popular American health aides are steeped in rich and ancient Asian history. From Traditional Chinese Medicine to fermented vegetables, food is so much more than just sustenance.

The next generation of Asian Americans are redefining what it means to be Asian in the U.S. by keeping one foot in the past, and the other in the future. We talk to renegade chefs and entrepreneurs to see what’s in store for the future of Asians in the mainstream.

Asian beauty secrets have long held fascination with Western audiences. Today, the K Beauty boom is all over mainstream America. We talk to the (mostly) women leading the charge in the cosmetics and skincare scene and disrupting the American beauty industry.