Hi! Welcome to our first Chinese Food Fight Club podcast Hot Topics episode—where we discuss things we've learned from recent guests, things we've been thinking about, and what we've been up to, and how it all relates to being a first-generation Asian American and a third-culture kid.
Chinese Food Fight Club is a multimedia platform and consultancy inspired by a dining club created by Andy Wang and Danica Lo at Legend in New York City in 2011. Our mission is to connect the Chinese-American community with other Asian communities while amplifying the stories of Asian and Asian-American creators, chefs, artists, activists, policy-makers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. You can find us elsewhere on the internet at Instagram and you can watch these episodes on YouTube.
Stuff we mention in this video:
• Mian restaurant, Los Angeles
• Fly by Jing Sichuan sauces
• Szechuan Grandma, Long Island
• Junzi Kitchen, New York
• Shirley Chung's Ms Chi on Goldbelly
• Xi'an Famous Foods on Goldbelly
• Jon Yao's Kato restaurant, Los Angeles
• Anthony Bourdain at Xi'an Famous Foods
• Robot pony for children
• Parkour robot
• Damien Hirst's NFT initiative
Andy Wang has written regularly about restaurants and bars for Food & Wine, Los Angeles Magazine, Robb Report and Observer. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Zagat Stories, Las Vegas Weekly, Vegas Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Epicurious, Yahoo Travel, Taste, Ocean Drive and many other publications. He is co-host of LA Food Gang on Clubhouse. Andy was previously the real estate and travel editor at the New York Post. A former dot-com entrepreneur, he wrote the first New York Times stories about both Google and blogs.
Danica Lo was, most recently, the chief content officer of Tatler Asia, where she led print and digital teams in eight markets: Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. Previously, she led digital editorial teams at some of the largest consumer lifestyle media brands in the United States, including Food & Wine, WWD, Glamour, and Epicurious. A native New Yorker and former Wilhelmina plus-size model, she holds degrees from the University of Oxford, Dartmouth College, and London's Central Saint Martins.