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Lucky Chow
Bay Area's Pacific Rim Cuisine
Season 1
Episode 105
Meet Olivia Wu, designer of the original Asian restaurant concepts on Google's campus where the assembly line churns out 2,000 servings of the Indian fried rice dish, biryani. After a career in Silicon Valley, two retired Japanese executives returned to their ancestral farming roots and constructed an indoor vertical farm which services some of the top restaurants in the Bay Area.
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In Paris, pho, coffee, and bánh mì reveal a Vietnamese history beneath the surface.
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In London, tea, spices, and peppers tell the story of the British Empire.
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In Italy, Chinese and Italian cuisines collide and reveal a shared love of food and hospitality.
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In Copenhagen, Asian chefs apply New Nordic seasonality to dishes shaped by their histories.
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Across Taiwan, artisans produce staples like soy sauce, hot sauce, tofu & rice in hand-crafted ways.