Huang's World

- Season 4

(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.

Toronto has been said to be the most multicultural city on earth; half of its inhabitants are foreign born, with over 200 nationalities. It is a cosmopolitan immigrant city that isn't as much about assimilation as it is about co-existing. 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.

While other cultures will take culture and want credit or recognition for recreating culture in their own light, Japanese people sacrifice themselves and dedicate themselves to their craft. It's all about respect, discipline, and utilitarianism. When they do this they make the best product; but sometimes this dedication and discipline can be suffocating. You become a servant to ideas and forget that some rules are meant to be broken. Eddie travels through Japan looking into individualism and how this has helped and hurt the Japanese.

The Hawaiian Islands have been a stronghold for Polynesian culture that over the years has absorbed the many different cultures influences. It's philosophies, way of life, and food have unified the islands but due to dominant cultural and market forces this unifying spirit and culture is under attack. Eddie heads to Oahu and the Big Island to explore Hawaiian identity in the margins of its own habitat seeking to discover how the people seek to take their islands back.

Anyone who's ever lived in New York or claimed New York has a version of their New York and the truth of the matter is, they're all valid. Eddie takes viewers on a journey through his New York, introducing viewers to his friends and family.

Eddie heads to Cape Cod to show that "white" culture is a misnomer as it's impossible to capture a people by color. Black, brown, and yellow people have been forced to assimilate and sacrifice part of their identities, but so too have white people, unwittingly. Eddie takes a road trip through the Cape to explore monoculture in one America's most exclusionary vacation locations.

For years South Korea has suffered under occupation, been desecrated by war, forgotten, and ultimately struggled to find itself on the global totem pole. In the past 30 years, however, the country has turned a sharp corner, transforming itself into a dominating force of wealth, power, and global influence. Korea has become a powerhouse, but with all of its successes exists a rapidly aging society that is burning the wick at both ends. Eddie visits Seoul to see how Korea's rise through soft power has effected the country for better or for worse.

Eddie moves through LA and its surrounding communities as he explores Los Angeles' food history from the invent of the drive through, convenience, and hamburgers, to the current health and wellness food movements.

As a country that stands to make billions of dollars annually from food tourism alone - Peru, particularly Lima, has become the gastronomic capitol of Latin America. How did a place once rampant with terrorism become home to 80,000 culinary students? Eddie seeks to explore how the acceptance and preservation of bio and human diversity made Peru a culinary powerhouse.

Eddie arrives in Dubai, the opulent heart of the United Arab Emirates, and explores how the city's extreme wealth drives technology, culture, and food.