The WORST episodes of Huang's World
Every episode of Huang's World ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Huang's World!
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 - Burgundy
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/19/2016
Eddie spends this episode drinking wine and enjoying the culture in Burgundy, France and learns about the history of the region that makes some of the most well known wines in the world.
#2 - Dubai
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/30/2017
In the season finale, Eddie arrives in Dubai, the opulent heart of the United Arab Emirates, to explore how the city's extreme wealth drives technology, culture and food.
#3 - Peru
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/23/2017
Peru has become the gastronomic capital of Latin America. Eddie visits to explore how the acceptance and preservation of bio and human diversity have made Peru a culinary powerhouse.
#4 - Los Angeles
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/16/2017
Eddie drives through LA, exploring the city's food history from the invention of the drive-thru to the current health and wellness food movements.
#5 - South Korea
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/9/2017
Eddie visits Seoul to see how South Korea's rise through soft power changed the country for better or for worse.
#6 - Cape Cod
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/2/2017
Eddie road trips through Cape Cod, seeing that "white" culture is a misnomer as it's impossible to capture a people by color.
#7 - New York
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/26/2017
Eddie takes viewers on a journey through his New York, introducing viewers to his friends and family.
#8 - Hawaii
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/19/2017
Eddie explores Hawaiian identity in the margins of its own habitat and how Hawaiians seek to take the island back.
#9 - Japan
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/12/2017
Eddie travels through Japan looking into individualism and how this has helped and hurt the Japanese.
#10 - Toronto
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/5/2017
Eddie checks out Toronto by embedding himself in a handful of immigrant communities to better understand how ethnic food flourishes under the support of multiculturalism.
#11 - Washington D.C.
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/28/2017
The United States is suffering through one of its most divisive, uncertain moments in history and as the majority of America watches their screens for self-fulfilling prophecies - those who are tired of watching, are mobilizing. Eddie arrives in Washington D.C. during the week of the inauguration to explore the District's own fight against adversity and the problems of these volatile times.
#12 - China
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/16/2016
Eddie Huang travels to China with his parents to explore his heritage as a Taiwanese-Chinese-American, and to discover the most important dish of his life: Red Cooked Pork.
#13 - Taiwan
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/9/2016
Eddie Huang heads to his parents homeland and explores the complex history of the Taiwanese people.
#14 - Orlando
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/2/2016
Eddie goes to his childhood home to spend Chinese New Year with his family and reflect on how the unique culture in Orlando, Florida has influenced his life and career.
#15 - Istanbul
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/26/2016
Eddie Huang travels to Istanbul to eat the diverse food of the region, and ends up experiencing first hand the changing religious landscape of a once cosmopolitan society.
#16 - Bay Area
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/2012
Eddie's first stop in the Bay Area is Oakland, where he hangs with a local biker gang that shows hipsters how to shoot guns and hunt for rabbit. After a few gruesome hours in the Oakland outback, they head back to the clubhouse to shoot the shit, throw back a few cold ones, and talk about the disconnect between people and the process it takes to put meat on their plates. Then they cook up a delicious meal of southern-style deep-fried rabbit.
#17 - Borderlands
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/12/2016
Eddie travels to the border of Mexico to find out about the dynamic between a developing country and a first world of the United States.
#18 - Sicily
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/5/2016
Eddie Huang travels to Sicily to discover the ancient Arabic and African influence on Sicilian culture and cuisine; and finds a new wave of immigrants changing Sicily once again.
#19 - Jamaica
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/28/2016
In the series premiere, Eddie Huang travels to Jamaica, where he learns firsthand about the country's economic struggles since it gained independence from Britain in 1962.
#20 - Chengdu
Season 2 - Episode 7 - 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.
#21 - New York
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/3/2014
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.
#22 - Shanghai
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/2014
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.
#23 - London
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/30/2013
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.
#24 - Moscow
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/2/2013
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.
#25 - Detroit
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/4/2013
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.