Fresh Off the Boat Season 2

October. 07,2013      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis

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.

Episode 19 : Chengdu Part 1
April. 07,2014
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.
Episode 18 : New York Part 3
March. 17,2014
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.
Episode 17 : New York Part 2
March. 10,2014
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.
Episode 16 : New York Part 1
March. 03,2014
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.
Episode 15 : Shanghai Part 3
February. 10,2014
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.
Episode 14 : Shanghai Part 2
February. 03,2014
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.
Episode 13 : Shanghai Part 1
January. 27,2014
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.
Episode 12 : London Part 3
January. 13,2014
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.
Episode 11 : London Part 2
January. 06,2014
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."
Episode 10 : London Part 1
December. 30,2013
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.
Episode 9 : Moscow Part 3
December. 16,2013
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.
Episode 8 : Season Two Leftovers
April. 28,2014
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!
Episode 7 : Chengdu
April. 07,2014
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.
Episode 6 : New York City
March. 03,2014
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.
Episode 5 : Shanghai
January. 27,2014
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.
Episode 4 : London
December. 30,2013
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.
Episode 3 : Moscow
December. 02,2013
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.
Episode 2 : Detroit
November. 04,2013
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.
Episode 1 : Mongolia
October. 07,2013
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.

Seasons

Season 2
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.
Season 2 2013
Season 1
Fresh Off the Boat is a genre-bending venture into subculture through the lens of food. Raw, wild, and heartfelt, Eddie Huang gets down in the underbellies of cities around the world in search of what's cooking in their back alleys and underground spots. He's hunting rabbits with biker gangs in Oakland, eating seafood and surfing in Taiwan, hitting low-rider BBQs in East LA, and dining on rice and beans with your drug dealer's grandmother in Miami.
Season 1 2012