The BEST episodes of Huang's World season 2
Every episode of Huang's World season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Huang's World season 2!
Huang's World 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.
#1 - New York Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/2014
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.
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#2 - New York Part 1
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/2014
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.
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#3 - Moscow Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/2013
In Fresh Off the Boat - Moscow part two, Eddie further immerses himself in Russian culture. He learns what it was like to live under Soviet rule, shares tea with Kyrgyz immigrants, and begins to understand the issues that connect people, regardless of the invisible lines which separate them.
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#4 - Shanghai Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/2014
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.
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#5 - New York Part 3
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/17/2014
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.
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#6 - Chengdu Part 1
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/2014
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.
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#7 - Chengdu Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/2014
Sit back and relax as Eddie enjoys the finer things in life in this segment of Huang's World: Chengdu. We head to China's Dead Sea Resort, where Eddie "lightens up" with a refreshing salt burial, swims in one of the world's most crowded swimming pools, and samples some delicate baby pig d*ck. It's in Chengdu that he best understands the beauty of China's efficient, economical way of life.
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#8 - Mongolia Part 3
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2013
In this episode of Fresh Off the Boat, Eddie eats musky sheep eyeballs, appears on Mongol TV, and chats with some local fans about the country's attempt to grow while retaining its cultural identity in the face of a new mining project in the Gobi Desert.
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#9 - Detroit Part 1
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/2013
In part one of the Detroit episode, Eddie meets up with hometown hero Danny Brown to eat some massive Big Baby burgers and survey the ways in which Detroit has been affected by the economic downturn, and how a select few like Danny are doing their part to turn the city around.
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#10 - Mongolia Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2013
In part two of Fresh Off the Boat - Mongolia, Eddie checks out some questionable meat—pause—at a market in Ulan Bator, attends a massive outdoor metal festival, and learns how to make khorkhog at one of the country's first truly modern restaurants.
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#11 - Mongolia Part 1
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2013
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.
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#12 - Moscow Part 3
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/2013
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.
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#13 - Detroit Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2013
In part two of Fresh Off the Boat - Detroit, Eddie heads to Dearborn, Michigan, home of the highest Middle Eastern population per capita outside the Middle East. There, he mows some Iraqi pastries, checks out Wild Wednesdays where the community does its bulk shopping, and engages in kebab diplomacy with a Lebanese community leader and some young Muslim activists.
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#14 - Detroit Part 3
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/2013
In part three of Fresh Off the Boat - Detroit, Eddie meets Allan Hill, a born-again Christian who's lived in the abandoned Packard Plant for seven years. Standing in its crumbling ruins Eddie eats mystery-meat pasties and homemade yogurt before visiting a local soup kitchen with Allan and his crew.
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#15 - Shanghai Part 3
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/2014
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.
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#16 - Chengdu Part 3
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/21/2014
In the Season 2 Finale of Huang's World, Eddie learns the subtleties of Sichuan cooking from master chef Yu, visits the sculpture factory of artist Deng Le, and climbs into a treehouse parlor to discover an appreciation for the delicate hand motions of Taiwanese tea-pouring. He also spends his time with different generations of Chinese families to discuss cultural preservation as China moves forward and becomes open to the rest of the world.
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#17 - Shanghai Part 1
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2014
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.
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#18 - London Part 1
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/2013
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.
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#19 - Moscow Part 1
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2013
In part one of Fresh Off the Boat - Moscow, Eddie takes his first shot of Russian vodka, chows down on some "communist dogs" with one of the few black Muscovites, and discusses the country's diverse generation of millennials and their evolving ideologies.
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#20 - London Part 3
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2014
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.
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#21 - London Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2014
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."
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