In part 2 of the ongoing coffee series, host Dana Cowin speaks to Malaysian-born Chi Sum Ngai, co-founder of Coffee Project New York. Cowin asks a lot of questions about coffee basics and gets an education in return—no surprise since Ngai not only runs several coffee shops and a roastery...

Kaleena Teoh and Sum Ngai were friends in school back in Malaysia, but it wasn't until years later in NY that they decided to start Coffee Project NY. It was a small local shop in the East Village at first, but pretty soon it took on a life of it's...

Join Ethan for a conversation with Auria Abraham, founder of Auria's Malaysian Kitchen. Auria was born and raised in the small town of Seremban, Malaysia where she grew up surrounded by multi-ethnic culinary inspiration and cuisine, a cornerstone of Malaysian culture. In the 22 years that she has been in...

Gaik Cheng Khoo's (author of Eating Together) research exists at the intersection of food and race, culture, and identity. In this episode, we discuss what it means to be ""modern Malaysian"", the South Korean hansik globalization campaign, and frozen durian foodways. She is a professor at the University of Nottingham...

One night, after the fall of Vietnam, Reyna Duong's father woke up his wife and 11 kids as well as the rest of his tiny fishing village and orchestrated an escape across the water to Malaysia. Duong, now owner of Sandwich Hag in Dallas, Texas, brings that same compassion, urgency...

Robyn Eckhardt's love letter (tome really) of a book to the people and food of Turkey just came out. Istanbul and Beyond is a beautiful cookbook about a place most Americans can only vaguely identify on a map, yet exists at the intersection of both the beginnings of historical agriculture...

This week on Japan Eats, host Akiko Katayama is joined in the studio by Jesse Falowitz, whose long travels around Asia finally lead to his opening a shōchū business in Japan. Falowitz calls shōchū the predecessor to whiskey in Japan, and puts its flavor profile "somewhere between a sake, a...

Subway's mousy mishap, Wu-Tang infused brews, and refunds for drinking Beck's Beer - welcome to this week's The Morning After! Solo host Sari Kamin is in studio with chef and restauranter Yotam Ottolenghi and chef Ramael Scully hot off the release of their new co-authored book, "NOPI: The Cookbook." Featuring...

Jordana Rothman is the co-­author of the new book Tacos: Recipes + Provocations with Chef Alex Stupak of New York's Empellón restaurants. She was the food and drink editor of Time Out New York for six years. Rothman is a frequent contributor to print and digital publications such as Food...

This week on another episode abroad of Native, host Briana Kurtz is in Penang, Malaysia chatting with local food expert and chef, Pearly Kee. Pearly Kee is one of Penang's doyens of Nyonya cuisine and takes Briana through the ins and outs of what makes this cuisine not only distinct...