Season 2 Plot
This season, the world’s first and only Human Panda, Eddie Huang, travels from Cape Cod to Peru to Tokyo and Dubai exploring what we gain in efficiency or scale with globalization versus what we’re losing on the plate in front of us.
Huang's World Season 2 aired on June 28th, 2017.
Season 2 Episodes
1. Washington, D.C.
Eddie heads to our nation’s capital to explore the food, culture, and politics of Washington D.C. during the Inauguration of Donald Trump.
2. Toronto
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.
3. Japan
Eddie travels through Japan looking into individualism and how this has helped and hurt the Japanese.
4. Hawaii
Eddie explores Hawaiian identity in the margins of its own habitat and how Hawaiians seek to take the island back.
5. New York
Anyone who’s ever lived in New York has a version of their New York. Eddie takes viewers on a journey through his New York, introducing viewers to his friends and family.
6. Cape Cod
Eddie road trips through Cape Cod, seeing that white culture is a misnomer as it’s impossible to capture a people by color.
7. South Korea
Eddie visits Seoul to see how Korea’s rise through soft power has affected the country for better or for worse.
8. Los Angeles
Eddie dives through LA exploring the city’s food history from the invent of the drive-thru to the current health and wellness food movements.
9. Peru
Peru has become the gastronomic capital of Latin America. Eddie visits to explore how the acceptance and preservation of bio & human diversity has made Peru a culinary powerhouse.
10. Dubai
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.