This episode features Coral Lee, Food52 Podcast Network’s Producer. For this conversation, she is on the other side of the mic sharing a deeply personal story of the cake that encapsulates her grandmother’s communal table. Coral explores the nature of intimacy, her hyphenated identity as an Asian-American, as well as...

How many peanuts can you pick up using chopsticks? Where did chopsticks originate? How do you use chopsticks? On this episode of Time For Lunch we’re getting to know one of the most versatile eating tools: chopsticks! Hannah and Harry play a fun stacking game and learn about the proper...

Today’s guests are Margaret, Irene, and Andrew Li, the sibling co-owners of the The Mei Mei Group, a Boston-based restaurant, food truck, and catering company with a focus on innovation, sustainability, and great service. Led by Chef Irene, Mei Mei’s creative Chinese-American cuisine combines Chinese techniques and influences with local...

You're listening to the last episode of the season! And that coincides with a conversation about one of our favorite foods of all time - the famous xiao long bao (XLB), aka soup dumplings. We're chatting with Sean Tang, managing partner for Pinch Chinese, which recently got named the best...

We're talking about a Chinese cuisine we’ve never covered before on Feast Meets West - and that’s Yunnan cuisine. Yunnan’s best known for its “crossing the bridge noodles”, which is a soup based rice noodles dish. It's also the signature dish at the new noodle shop “South of the Clouds”...

Today, we are not just talking about Chinese food, but also the elevated dining experience you can find at a number of Chinese restaurants in recent years. We're chatting with founders Yiming Wang and Xian Zhang of Cafe China, China Blue, and Birds of a Feather, who are purposefully designing...

On this week's episode, we talk about one of the oldest and most popular street food items in China--jianbing. It’s a crispy and savory crepe packed with delicious flavors, textures and color. Brian Goldberg, Founder of Mr. Bing, first fell in love with jianbing when he studied Chinese in Beijing...

This Valentine's Day, we are talking about a beloved dish that will warm you up inside and out. Hotpot is one of the most popular and oldest dishes originating from China over a thousand year's ago. In the studio with us is Yu Li, Founder of Tang Hotpot, where he...

Today, we’re talking about sesame noodles and the family that made it a staple in New York City’s culinary landscape, and helped define Chinese cuisine since the 60s, pioneering the craze for fiery Sichuanese. Chef Chen Lieh Tang and James Tang, son and grandson to the legendary Shorty Tang, join...

Baijiu is the world's most consumed liquor, but is virtually unknown outside of China. Baijiu connoisseur, Shunan Teng of Tea Drunk, returns to Feast Meets West to talk about drinking baijiu, the different types, and how to appreciate it. Feast Meets West is powered by Simplecast