In Fresh Off the Boat season two, Eddie takes you on a global excursion examining cities in transition. From the abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit to migrant Kyrgyz workers in Moscow to the yurts of the Gobi Desert, we see the wreckage that global capitalism has left behind and get a glimpse of what could be its next meal in the Mongolian steppes. From high-powered meetings with the pandas of Chengdu and pasta with self-proclaimed celebrity gangster Dave Courtney, we ask the people on the ground whether the changes we're seeing and the progress we've been promised are actually helping the every day man in his pursuit of happiness. Of course, this all happens through the lens of food, across a table, on a plate. Fuck with the kid.
In this episode of Fresh Off the Boat, Eddie heads to Mongolia to take part in the Naadam festival, which celebrates the "three manly sports"—archery, horse racing, and Mongolian wrestling. Then he discusses the effects of Mongolia's recent shift to democracy with some camel herders over a cup of home-brewed camel vodka.
In the next episode of Fresh Off the Boat, Eddie heads to Detroit to eat Big Baby burgers with Danny Brown and check out the cuisine of America's largest Muslim population in Dearborn. He also pays a visit to the abandoned Packard Plant to spend a day in the life of its homeless inhabitants.
In the next episode of Fresh Off the Boat, Eddie goes to Moscow and falls in love with Russian kabobs, learns the difference between American and Russian vodka, and explores the underlying racial tensions that modern Russian youth are fighting to overcome.
In episode four of Fresh Off the Boat - Season Two, Eddie explores the different neighborhoods of London by hanging with a some of the cities' oldest gangsters, learning to play the "gentleman's game" of cricket, and by meeting with the multicultural youth who are fighting to break the barriers of race by telling stories from a different perspective. Part one airs Monday, December 23.
In this episode of Fresh Off The Boat, Eddie gets inside the guts of Shanghai by having a red pork cook off with famous Shanghainese chef Andrew Zhao, going into the homes of local street vendors, and spending time in China's fabulous counterfeit malls.
Eddie heads back home for the next episode of Fresh Off the Boat - New York, in which he scopes out the cultural differences between the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. In the Bronx, he gets a taste of what local bodegas have to offer; in Brooklyn, he talks gentrification over oysters; and in Manhattan, he shows us what a day in the life of Eddie Huang is really like.
In the final episode of Fresh Off the Boat, Season 2, watch Eddie explore Chengdu as he tries authentic spicy Szechuan, gets buried in pure salt, rides a wave pool with a million Chinese people in float-ies, cooks with Master Chef Yu Bu, and discusses the toll modernization is taking on culture, tradition and food.
That's a WRAP for Season 2 of Fresh Off The Boat. This year, we saw some really great moments traveling from Mongolia to Russia to Chengdu to NYC. So much so that we couldn't possibly fit it all into our previous episodes. But worry not, because we're coming at you with a blooper reel containing some of the most outrageous leftovers from the Human Panda and the FOB crew. Watch your boy, Eddie Huang, in the moments where the cameras shouldn't have been rolling. Can't wait to see you next season!
In Fresh Off the Boat - Moscow part three, Eddie lives it up on his last day in town by indulging in $400 caviar, riding around with the Godfather of Russian street racing, dominating in a game of Russian shot checkers, and sharing his "meat jelly" with a bikini-clad masseuse.
In part one of Fresh Off the Boat - London Eddie heads to Brick Lane, a historic enclave in East London that's home to Turks, Jews, and now Bengalis, to chow down on some tikka masala with a British twist. He then tries his hand at a game of cricket with a Pakistani cricket league and spits some real shit about the effects of British colonization and institutionalized Islamophobia in London.
In part two of Fresh Off the Boat - London Eddie takes us around the East End to have breakfast with former gangster Dave Courtney, get romantic with a sexy British photographer, and discuss the global phenomena of "hipsterdom."
In the final installment of Fresh Off the Boat - London, Eddie travels around the city with the young storytellers from Fully Focused, a youth-led media organization that aims to create a new image for London's misrepresented youth. He then joins them for their weekly Jerk Friday, where he munches on homemade jerk chicken and speculates about the ingredients of the very secret sauce.
In the first part of Fresh Off the Boat - Shanghai, Eddie ventures into the heart of the city where he meets with Qiuxiang Wang, a humble street food vendor working to live in the city on her own terms. He spends time in her home, where she's constantly making grilled skewers, grabs a midnight snack at a popular nighttime market, and gets a glimpse into what life is like for those trying to keep homegrown markets alive.
In part two of Fresh Off the Boat: Shanghai, Eddie travels around the city with popular food writer Jenny Gao, where he starts his day with some poop-infused coffee, throws down in a good, old fashioned cook-off, and discuss how attitudes towards food have changed in China since the Cultural Revolution.
In part three of Fresh Off the Boat - Shanghai, Eddie spends his final day eating some quality breakfast dumplings, going undercover at a bootleg mall, and enjoying classic Chinese-American food in Shanghai while discussing what it was like growing as a Chinese-American in the USA.
In Part 1 of Fresh Off the Boat - NYC, Eddie travels north to the Bronx, where he and WorldStarHipHop star Loopy hit up local bodegas, chow down on a Japanese-Dominican plantain mash-up disaster, and talk about holdin' down the hood, over mani-pedis.
Eddie goes to White Brooklyn for a look at the new (Momo Sushi), the new new (Bushwick Food Co-op), and the old (Peter Luger's) for a wine-laden meal with the Tony Stark of VICE—Shane Smith—to talk about the changing face of Brooklyn.
In part three of Fresh Off the Boat - NYC, Chef Huang shows us a day in his life in Downtown Manhattan featuring friends and family from various aspects of his life.
It's the season finale of Fresh Off The Boat - Chengdu. Eddie, a.k.a. The Human Panda, returns to his bamboo roots and discovers that pandas watch panda porn. He gets a taste of Chengdu traditions with hip hop pioneer DJ SuperBestFriend and eats pig brain mapo tofu at a "fly restaurant" on the brink of demolition.