Infatu Asian Podcast

Side Dish #11 All of Us Are Dead *Spoiler-Free first half*

What goes better with Valentine's Day than some zombie mayhem!?! Jennifer, Nadira, and I discuss Netflix's hit drama All of Us Are Dead, which takes place at a dysfunctional Korean high school. The 3 of us pick zombie survival teams from the show's characters... whose team would you run with? 
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Music:
"Zombie" by Day6 (JYP entertainment)
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Ep 20.2 How competing on Top Chef changed Shirley Chung’s life and more celebrity chef stories from Caryl Chinn!

Part Two of our chat with Top Chef star Chef Shirley Chung and food industry expert Caryl Chinn! This week we dig deeper into what it’s like to work with and be a celebrity chef.  Caryl tells the story about the first time she met Chef Gordon Ramsay and Shirley gives us a glimpse into what it’s like to compete with other amazing chefs on Bravo’s Top Chef, where she finished in the top 3 twice and was runner up in Season 14. We also talk a little about the future of the food industry. Intern Producer Madison got home from school just in time to sit in on this hour and we had our producer chat after the outro song, so don’t miss that!
Please check out Caryl and Shirley’s Dumpling Mafia! You can find them @dumplingmafianft on Instagram, or get the NFT online at https://opensea.io/collection/dumpling-mafia-bosses If you want to join Shirley for a Lantern Festival dumpling cook-a-long on Feb 17th, you can get a package of dumpling ingredients sent to you via Gold Belly (Ms. Chi Cafe),  https://www.goldbelly.com/shirley-chungs-ms-chi  THE INFATUASIAN PODCAST WILL BE THERE! You can order Ms. Chi Cafe food from Gold Belly all year long to have Shirley’s cooking at home! (US shipping only)
Do you have a celebrity chef story? Write to us at Infatuasianpodcast@gmail.com and I’ll read your email on the air! You can also DM and follow us @theinfatuasianpodcast on Instagram to get all our updates.  Please give us a rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
Follow Caryl @carylchinn and Chef Shirley @chfshirleychung on Instagram!
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Episode 20 Foodie Talk with My Sister Caryl and Chef Shirley Chung!

Foodie Talk with Two Food Insiders Caryl Chinn and Top Chef Shirley Chung!  Hear the origin story of my sister Caryl, who has worked with pretty much all the celebrity chefs we know and love. She was Bon Appetit magazine’s first food event planner in the 90’s when the food media industry blew up. Coming along with us is the amazingly effervescent Chef Shirley Chung!  Shirley had us rolling on the floor laughing with her stories of growing up in a family of doctors and engineers. In the 2000s Shirley cooked for some of the biggest names in California and Las Vegas when Bravo’s Top Chef came looking for her to compete on Season 11 and again on Season 14!  Shirley and Caryl’s stories will give you a glimpse into the world of celebrity chefs! Tune in next week for Part 2, where Shirley will share behind-the-scenes stories about her time on Top Chef! Be sure to listen all the way through to hear some of Shirley's FUNNIEST stories!
Please check out Caryl and Shirley’s Dumpling Mafia! You can find them @dumplingmafianft on Instagram, or get the NFT online at https://opensea.io/collection/dumpling-mafia-bosses If you want to join Shirley for a Lantern Festival dumpling cook-a-long on Feb 17th, you can get a package of dumpling ingredients sent to you via Gold Belly (Ms. Chi Cafe),  https://www.goldbelly.com/shirley-chungs-ms-chi  THE INFATUASIAN PODCAST WILL BE THERE! You can order Ms. Chi Cafe food from Gold Belly all year long to have Shirley’s cooking at home! (US shipping only)
Do you have a celebrity chef story? Write to us at Infatuasianpodcast@gmail.com and I’ll read your email on the air! You can also DM and follow us @theinfatuasianpodcast on Instagram to get all our updates.  Please give us a rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
Follow Caryl @carylchinn and Chef Shirley @chfshirleychung on Instagram!
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Side Dish #9 A Modern Chinese Love Story: Us and Them

A Special Lunar New Year Side Dish!  Xin Nian Kaui Le Everyone!  We hope you have a very prosperous new year!  This is a movie I’ve loved since the moment I saw it.  And it zooms in on a love story marked by the Lunar New Year.  Some love stories center on couples who are so right and yet so wrong for each other.  That’s the case for these two strangers, who become friends, who become lovers, who become strangers again. It’s on Netflix and might be an interesting way to spend your Lunar New Year, and it might even get you thinking about love, regret, forgiveness, and more.
Thanks to Beijing native Jenny for coming along this week.  Hope you’re all well!  Please write to us at Infatuasianpodcast@gmail.com or send us a direct message on Instagram @theinfatuasianpodcast Please follow us wherever you get your podcasts, and give us a rating/review at Apple Podcasts or Spotify.  Thanks for listening!
Music:  愛了很久的朋友 (A Friend You Have Loved For a Long Time) by Hebe Tien
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E19 The Cleaning Lady with Creator/Executive Producer Miranda Kwok!

Episode 19 Creator and Executive Producer Miranda Kwok talks with us about The Cleaning Lady!  Fox’s #1-Rated drama features a Cambodian/Filipina lead character whose strength, intelligence, and sheer determination are a force to be reckoned with. Hear Miranda talk about some of the subtle but very deliberate choices she made to maintain as much authenticity as possible.  Everything from the soundtrack, the language, to the Jollibee fried chicken work to create a world we haven’t seen on network television before. It has an engaging story that will suck you in from the first episode.  The Cleaning Lady airs on Fox, Mondays at 9 PM also Saturdays at 9 PM or on Fox.com. We highly recommend it!
 
Thanks to Melanie for co-hosting with me and Intern Madison for editing the show.
 
Music Clip:
“Us” by Ruby Ibarra. CIRCA91 (2017 Beatrock Music) now available on iTunes and elsewhere
 
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Ep 18: Staring Into the Eyes of Tony Leung with Photographer Zabrina Deng!

Episode 18! This week we have a double treat, first, we talk to award-winning photographer Zabrina Deng about the art of her photography, and second, we chat about one of our favorite actors, Tony Leung! The photos we are discussing in the episode can be found on our Instagram or Facebook pages. We then talk about the masterful of acting by Tony Leung, who many people know only from Shang Chi, but whose career goes back 4 decades and over 200 acting credits. Also coming along on this week's conversation is our intern/producer Madison!
 
Special thanks to Zabrina who spent 2 hours with us sitting outside in the cold at 8 AM! To see more of her work, follow her account @zabrinaxyz on Instagram or check out her website www.Jezaphoto.com.
 
FREE workshop!!! Zabrina along with her mentor Scott Robert Lim will be leading a photography workshop through the SF Public Library. It’s called: Extraordinary Photos from Any Camera, and It’s from 7-8 PM on Zoom, on the LAST Monday of each month starting January 31st and going through April. Then in May, there will be a special outdoor photo walking session led by Zabrina and Scott through Chinatown!  Anyone can join, even if you only have a cell phone camera!  Totally free, but you need to register. Fined out more details and register at: https://sfpl.org/events/2022/01/31/workshop-extraordinary-photos-any-camera
 
Music: 
“Infernal Affairs [ 無間道 ]” performed by Andy Lau and Tony Leung (WMG)
 
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Ep 17 Part Two: Asian Uni Life, Work, Love and Travel in Australia

Part 2 of Episode 17! Our special collaboration with The Asian Soup Podcast continues as we touch on many topics about life in Australia as an Asian.  Our SOUPER friends, Roxane and Julia, join us again from Sydney and we dive deeper into the similarities and differences growing up halfway around the world. Curtis, Mandy, and Madison also share their Asian American experiences and make plans for a hypothetical but hopefully real meet-up in the future! Also, you can tell from this picture that we were on opposite sides of the world because we have half the group wearing blankets and sweaters in the pitch black of winter while the other group is wearing tank tops and dresses on a bright Aussie summer day before Christmas!
Did you grow up Asian where you weren't part of the dominant culture? Share with us your thoughts at Infatuasianpodcast@gmail.com Please give us a review or rating at Apple Podcasts or Spotify!  And follow us over on Instagram @theinfatuasianpodcast
More episodes coming soon! We'll be talking Tony Leung films as well as having Chef Shirley Chung from Top Chef season 11 and 14 (co-hosted by my favorite sister Caryl!)
Music:
Rose and Onew from JTBC's "Sea of Hope"  바라던 바다 
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Ep 17 Growing Up As An Asian Down Under!

Episode 17 Part One! Does growing up Asian halfway around the world, on a different continent, in a different hemisphere lead to a different experience? Today we have a SOUPER fun collaboration with two Asian Aussies, Roxane and Julia, the hosts of The Asian Soup Podcast! Listen to my co-host Mandy, Intern Madison, and me chat with our friends down under about a wide variety of topics about growing up in places where we were not the dominant culture. Does the Asian diaspora have more in common than we think?
 
Give our friends Jules and Rox a listen at The Asian Soup Podcast on most podcast servers.  You can write to them at Roxaneandjulia@gmail.com and follow them @asiansouppodcast on Instagram/YouTube/TikTok.  
 
As always you can write to us at Infatuasianpodcast@gmail.com Send us your address and we’ll send you an Infatuasian Podcast sticker! (I swear we won’t sell your address or stalk you!) Follow us on Instagram @theinfatuasianpodcast And please consider giving us a rating/review at Apple Podcasts and also Spotify!  Thanks for listening!
Songs: 
“Rosé-On the Ground” Black Pink (YG Entertainment) 
Our Theme: “Super Happy J-Pop Funtime” by Prismic Studio
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