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Infatu Asian Podcast — 276 episodes

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Ep 216.5 Side Dish Episode with John W. Kim Writer and Director of Reunion

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Ep 216 The March Madness of Asian Dishes 2026!

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Ep 215 An Interview with Mayor Elizabeth Yang of Monterey Park California

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Ep 214 Julian DeGuzman on Performing in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast

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Ep 213 Life as a Bad Daughter! Chatting with Joan about education, her book, and #baddaugtherconfessions

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Ep 212 A Conversation with Michelle Krusiec - Fighting for Representation and Authenticity in Hollywood

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Ep 211 Asian Movie Exchange with the Drama Trio (Plus One)!

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Ep 210 ARKAI An Interview with the Grammy Winning Contemporary Instrumental Duo!

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Ep 209 Hannah Chea! Miss San Francisco Chinatown, Cal Alum, Data Scientist, Oyster Shucker, and Cambodian Dancer!

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Ep 208 Up with Choligarchy! A Chat with The One and Only Margaret Cho

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Ep 207 Helen Goh - Psychologist, Baker, and Author of Baking and the Meaning of Life

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Ep 206 Breaking Banh-Mi with Queer Viet-Khmer American Podcaster - Randy Kim

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Ep 205 Satsuki Ina - Echoes from the Internment Camps: Satsuki Ina’s Family Story

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Ep 204 An Interview with Chef Roy Choi Talking About Life Before and After Starting the Kogi BBQ Food Trucks!

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Ep 203 From A Single Mom High School Dropout to Entrepreneur and Mentor - Ashely Du Has Forged Her Own Path

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Holiday Re-Play: Lan Lam Interview: From Cooks Illustrated, America's Test Kitchen, and Techniquely!

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2025 Holiday Re-Gift: Our Episode with Stephanie Park On Playing Eliza Hamilton on Broadway

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Ep 202 - 2025 Wrapped! Our Top 5 Episodes of the Year with Guest Host Sarah Ahn of Ahnest Kitchen!!!

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Episode 201 A Mini-Interview with Nico Santos - Rene on St. Denis Medical and Oliver T'sien in Crazy Rich Asians

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Ep 200 Randall Park - Talking Early Days of Acting, Fresh Off The Boat, Wanda Vision, Always Be My Maybe and More

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Ep 199 Founders of Odd One In - Gloria Liu and Julie Zhu and Head of Yuzu Brand - Cindy Lim

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Special Episode with Amanda Sung - Author of How to Break a Girl

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Ep 198 K-Drama Fantasy Cast Draft with Judy from K-Drama My Eyes Out!

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Ep 197 Talking About The Very Asian Guide to Taiwanese Food With Author Nancy Jeng and Illustrator Felicia Liang

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Ep 196 Asian Ghost Stories Volume 3 with the Blackboard 4! In Chinatown!

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Ep 195 A Conversation with Kat Lieu Author of 108 Asian Cookies

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Ep 194 Author Jamie Jo Hoang on Writing the Stories Our Vietnamese Parents Never Tell

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Ep 193 A Chinatown Recipe Club! Sharing Recipes With Friends and People We've Just Met

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Ep 192 Another Curtis Chin! Curtis S. Chin's Journey As A Public Affairs and Policy Specialist

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E191 From the Marine Corps to The Hottest Restaurant in San Francisco, How Justin Chin Became the General Manager at The Happy Crane

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Ep 190 A Chat with The World's Foremost Bruce Lee Memorabilia Collector - Jeff Chinn

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Ep 189 Getting to Know Surae Chinn One of the Hosts of Good Things Utah and So Much More!

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Ep 188 Curtis Chin on Family, Food, and Finding Identity in a Chinese Restaurant

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Ep 187 The Story Behind @imadoniseats: Adonis on Culture and Cuisine

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Ep 186 Kaila Yu on her book Fetishized: Behind the Scenes of Her Journey from Import Car Model to Writer

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Ep 185 Ada Tseng Author of Breaking Into New Hollywood: A Career Guide To A Changing Industry

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Ep 184 Part 2 The K-Watch Club Continues with Lingjie and Isabel watching Karma (2025) and Signal (2016)

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Ep 184 Part 1 A K-Watch Club with Isabel and Lingjie

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Ep 183 Tiger Sisters: Jean & Cherie Luo Share Their Journey From the Ivy League to Podcasting

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An Episode of Proxy on the InfatuAsian Podcast, Mic Nguyen's Biggest Regret

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Ep 182 From NPR to Proxy: Yowei Shaw’s Next Podcast Chapter

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Ep 181 Playing Her Cards Right From Toronto to Montenegro : Xuan Liu on Life and Poker

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Ep 180 Inside the World of Tyrus Wong with Karen Fang, Author of Background Artist

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Ep 179 Ask This Book a Question: Vicki Tan on Wonder, Design, and Discovery

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Ep 178 Advice for Traveling to Japan with Jeff and Naomi Yamazaki!

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Ep 177 You Might Have Asian Parents If... with the Blackboard 4

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Ep 176 Grace in Any Culture: Etiquette Lessons from Reina Chan

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Ep 175 Vicky Nguyen: From Boat Baby to NBC News

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Ep 174 Big Asian Energy: Breaking Through Your Limitations with John Wang

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Ep 173 part 2 - Amy Tan's InfatuAsian and Breaking the Legacy of Trauma

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Ep 173 From Joy Luck to Backyard Birds - Amy Tan Reflects on Survival and Writing Part 1

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Ep 172 Asian Goats! Naming the greatest Asian things and people of all time! With the Blackboard 4!

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Ep 171 Trailblazer Nancy Kwan Reflects on 'The World of Suzie Wong' and Changing Hollywood

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Ep 170 Arthur Dong on Telling Untold Asian American and LGBTQ Stories Through Film

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Ep 169: Chef Brandon Jew: Tradition, Innovation, and the Story of Mister Jiu’s

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Announcement: Bake for Myanmar - A San Francisco Community Fundraiser to Support Myanmar Earthquake Relief

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Ep 168 The March Madness of Chinese Cuisine 2025!

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Side Dish: Speaking with Actors Kim Chiu and Paulo Avelino about My Love Will Make You Disappear!

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Ep 167 Sarah Ahn on the writing of 'Umma' and the Stories Behind Ahnest Kitchen

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Ep 166 Mahjong’s Cultural Legacy: Author Nicole Wong on House Rules & Tradition

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Ep 165 Chatting With Mr. Prasetyo Hadi the Consul General of Indonesia in San Francisco!

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Ep 164 Playwright Lauren Yee on Breaking into Theatre, Representation, and Crafting Powerful Stories

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Ep 163 In Conversation with Lydia Kang About Her New Book Pseudoscience!

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Single’s Inferno 4 Discussion: Best Couples, Plot Twists & Red Flags - With Katie

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Ep 162 - Sam Hyun on 1587: The First Asian American-Owned Sneaker Brand Making History

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Ep 161 San Francisco's Best New Restaurants & Last-Minute Valentine's Day Tips – with Julia Chen of The Infatuation

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Ep 160 In Conversation With Eats By Rachel - Snacks, Hacks, Best Viral Treats

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Ep 159 Rich Ting: Actor In Warrior - Partner Track - On Call - Tulsa Kings - Man In The High Castle

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Ep 158 An Interview with Dolly Li - Telling Untold Stories of Asian America Through Images and Video

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Ep 157 An Interview with the Indie-Pop Duo corner club

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Ep 156 An Interview with My Nguyen Author of "Healthy My Way" Cookbook

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Ep 155 End of the Year Wrapped with Katie and Zoe

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Ep 154 Interview with Connie Cao - Author of Your Asian Veggie Patch

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Ep 153 Trying San Francisco's Most Iconic Asian To-Go Foods!

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Ep 152 Weike Wang Discusses Her Newest Book - Rental House

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Turkey Day Replay - Ranking Our Favorite Chinese Foods!

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Ep 151 Our Favorite Martial Arts Fight Scenes with Jon Xue Zhang

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Ep 150 Cantonese Cooking with Susanna from Smelly Lunchbox!

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InfatuAsian Side Dish: Quick Chat with Director Cathy Garcia-Sampana

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Ep 149 A Creepy, Dark, Bloody K-Drama Draft!

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Ep 148 Asian Ghost Stories Volume 2

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Special Announcement Quick-Ep: Fundraiser for Chef Shirley Chung

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Ep 147 Hallyu Exhibition at The San Francisco Asian Art Museum with Curator Yoon Jee Choi

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Ep 146 Jollibee! Get that gravy!

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Ep 145 Ellie Yang Camp - Author of Louder Than The Lies

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The No Episode Episode

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Ep 144 Master Chef Winner Chef Dara Yu!

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Ep 143 Connie Chung - The First Asian Woman to Co-Anchor the CBS Evening News

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Replay of Our Season 1 Pachinko Episode from May 5th 2022

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Ep 142 E-Trike Karaoke with Alanna Malicdem!

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Ep 141 Flushing Food Tour with Lingjie!

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Ep 140 DiDi The Best Asian American Coming of Age Movie?

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Replay: Love in Taipei Episode with Author Abigail Wen and Emily and Cliff!

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Ep 139 Emily Kwong Host of LAist/NPR's Inheriting Podcast

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Ep 138 Star Wars - The Acolyte with Mike Chen and Lydia Kang

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Ep 137 Rolling Quartz - 2024 Update

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Ep 136 K-Drama 2024 Mid-Year Updates

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Ep 135 Rachel Khong - Author of Real Americans

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Ep 134 Taku - Outdoor Chef Life

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Ep 133 April Kim - KPOP Interpreter and Emcee

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Ep 132 Sofia Kay - Singer/Songwriter

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Ep 131 Eddie Ahn - Author of the Graphic Novel Advocate

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Ep 130 The Outcasts From The 853! Paji and Iasmin!

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Ep 129 Allison Ly - Therapist/Coach for 1st and 2nd Gen Adult Children of Immigrants

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Ep 128 Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn Author of Exclusion and The Chinese American Story

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Ep 127 C-POP Idol Ally Shen (English)

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Ep 126 AAPI Heritage Month!

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Ep 125 Yvonne Chapman - Actor in Kung Fu and Avatar The Last Airbender

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Ep 124 K-POP Trivia Night at SarangHello!

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Ep 123 Chinatown Rising Film with Harry and Josh Chuck

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Ep 122 Jess Hong - Jin Cheng in Netflix's 3 Body Problem

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Side Dish! Bonus Restaurant Recommendations From Julia Chen Senior Staff Writer at The Infatuation!

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Ep 121 Julia Chen Senior Staff Writer and Restaurant Reviewer at The Infatuation SF

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Ep 120 A 2023 Hollywood Wrap-Up with Kelvin Han Yee and Katie Nguyen

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Ep 119 Fishing for Dungeness Crab - with Kaitlyn Bui and Adam From Die Hard Fishing!

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Ep 118 Mike Chen - Author of A Quantum Love Story

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Ep 117 Reverend Eugene Cho - Founder of One Day's Wages and President and CEO of Bread For the World

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Ep 116 Michelle - Getting Paid To Travel The World!

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Ep 115 Our Favorite K-Drama Romances!

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Ep 114 Asian Love Stories

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Ep 113 The Brothers Sun - With Stars Alice Hewkin and Jon Xue Zhang!

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Ep 112 Singles Inferno Season 3

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Ep 111 Singer/Songwriter/Rapper/Producer LowHi

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Ep 110 The Fetishist with Kayla Min Andrews

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Ep 109 More Side-Hustles and Money Tips with Chloe Choe!

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Ep 108 Simji - Making Rugs On Social Media

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Ep 107 Our End of the Year Wrap - Top 5 Episodes of the Year!

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Ep 106 Picking Our Favorite Chinese Foods Part Two!

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Ep 106 Ranking Our Favorite Chinese Foods!

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Ep 105 Loveboat Taipei! Speaking with Author and Producer Abigail Wen!

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Ep 104 The Amazing Invictus Quartet!

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T-Day Replay: Our Conversation with MingTsai from November 2022!

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Ep 103 Christopher Williams MD on the Intersection of AI and Public Health

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*Repost* Perry Yung - Father Jun on HBO’s Warrior!

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Ep 102 Debut Author Chin-Sun Lee - Upcountry

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Ep 101 Spooky Asian Ghost Stories with Jackie and Vicky!

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Ep 100 Bay Area Event Violinist Rose Crelli!

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Ep 99 Banh Mi Media Visits California!

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Ep 98 Our 3rd Annual K-Drama Draft Show!

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Ep 97 Filipino Food! With Anne from @alwayshannegry and Glenn

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Ep 96 Travel in Asia - With Isabel Wong and Many Past Guests!

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Ep 95 Love Between Fairy and Devil! With Nadira and Jessica From The Daebak K-Rambles Podcast

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Ep 94 Grace Lin - Children’s Book Author and Illustrator

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Episode 93 The Harvest: A film showing generational struggle in a Hmong family. With Actors: Dawn Ying Yuen and Chrisna Chhor!

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Ep 92 Craxy! An in-Person Interview With the Sweetest KPOP Group!

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Ep 91 A 2 Year Anniversary Special with Special Guests!

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Ep 90 Black Pink In Our Area! A Concert Hype Show with The Owners and Audience At SarangHello!

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Ep 89: Instant Ramen Hacks!

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Ep 88 From J-Pop Idol to Content Creator Estelle Fly Does It All!

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Ep 86 Michelle K. Hanabusa Founder of Uprisers and Co-Founder of Hate Is A Virus

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Ep 85: Life As Rolling Quartz’s General Manager with Han Jeong Wook

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Side Dish: Is Past Lives the Best Movie of 2023?

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Ep 84 Andrea Nguyen Author of Ever-Green Vietnamese and More!

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Ep 83:Let’s Talk Fruit and Veg with Thanh Truong!

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Ep 82 Actress Alyssa G. Kim! Inside One Of the Best Shows of 2023: BEEF!

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Side Dish: The New Knight - A Short Film About Inclusion and Representation

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Ep 81: Exploring our Ancestry - Looking at Our DNA Test Results

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Ep 80 Twice Concert Hype Show! Recorded at SarangHello with a Live Studio Audience!

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Gene Luen Yang - Author of American Born Chinese A Replay of Episode 39 from June 2022

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Ep 79 Actress and Life Coach Ami Park!

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Ep 78 Talking Traditional Asian Post Partum Nutrition with Jennifer and Irene of Chiyo

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Ep 77 Mayly Tao - Your Donut Princess And A Lot More!

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Side Dish! The Glory pt 1 & 2! With Margo from the Kdramas With Margo Podcast

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Ep 76 Jeff Yamazaki - Model/Actor - Men’s Fashion Content Creator

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Ep 75 Korean Rock Band - Rolling Quartz!

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Ep 74 Kelvin Han Yee - Hollywood Actor For Over 30 Years!

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Ep 73 Sarah and Kaitlin from The Woks of Life!

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Ep 72 Gina Chung - Author of Sea Change

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Ep 71 Son of Paper -aka Kyle Shin - SF Native - Rapper - Songwriter

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Ep 70 Keertana Sreekumar - Screenwriter Flimmaker Artist Teacher

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Ep 69 Michelle Lam - Animation Story Artist and Graphic Novelist!

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Ep 68 Stephanie Jae Park - As Eliza Hamilton on Broadway!

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An Infatu Asian Side Dish:The Netflix Reality Show Physical 100

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Ep67 Ranking the Greatest Asian Athletes of All-Time!

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Ep 66 Talking with Lan Lam about Food, TV, and Science!

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Ep 65: Fifteen First Dates, a Valentine’s Day Special

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Ep 64 Mastering Your Finances with Stephanie and Wilson!

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Ep 63 National Parks with Ranger Connie Lau

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Ep 62 Lisa Nguyen! Video Content Creator and More!

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Side Dish: Our Favorite Movie of 2022 - Park Chan Wook’s Decision To Leave!

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Ep 61 Saving Cantonese Language Programs!

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Bonus Episode: With XinYi Host of Don’t Be Strangers Podcast - Fighting Adult Loneliness

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Holiday Replay of Our Conversation With Tristan Allerick Chen the Voice of Tyler in Turning Red

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What’s It Like Catching A 200lb Bluefin Tuna in Northern California? With Adam from Die Hard Fishing!

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Ep 60 Tea! Talking With The Founder of Uproot Teas - Cindy Li!

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Ep 59 Ming Tsai - Chef, Restauranteur, TV Producer and Host, Author, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

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Ep 58 A Podcast Update And Catching Up With Cyclo-Tourist Sara Qiu in Turkey!

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Thanksgiving Replays: Ep 20.2 With Chef Shirley Chung and Caryl from Feb 2022

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Thanksgiving Infatu Asian Replays!

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Ep 57 Houseplants! Talking With Dom and Natalie - Plant Shop Owners and Plant Lovers!

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Ep 56 The 2022 K-Drama Draft with Pocha Playlist! *Possible Spoilers*

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Ep 55 Las Vegas Baby! Chatting with Allen About Living in Vegas And Dealing And Playing Poker

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Ep 54 Ranking Our Favorite Korean Foods!

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Update: New Single From Rikki Lee - Why Can’t I?

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Ep 53 Dave Lu - Entrepreneur, Advocate, and Executive Producer of 38 At the Garden

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Ep 52 Illuminating Asian American History and Culture in Our Community with Kimberly Szeto

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Ep 51 Getting Into College With Advice From Elton Lin - Educational Consultant and CEO of Ilumin Education

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Ep 50 Talking Turntables and Twitch with DJ Mish!

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Ep 49 Chatting with Two of the Creators and Stars of the Hulu Show Creamerie!

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Ep 48 Hollywood Reporter and Host Kylie Erica Mar!

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Ep47 Catching Up With Catherine Your Miss California 2022!

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Ep 46 Who’s Got It Better - New York or San Francisco?

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Ep 45 Dropping Out of Med School to Become a Beauty Product Entrepreneur With Kate Apiratanapimonchai!

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Ep 44 Cecily Wong’s Book Kaleidoscope Takes You Places You Don’t Expect!

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Ep 43 Failing High School Biology, Video Game Art, Brain Tumors and Carving at 60mph on A Electric Unicycle with Hayden Wu!

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Ep 42 Talking Counterfeit Handbags, Toddlers, and the Model Minority Myth with Kirstin Chen Author of Counterfeit

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Ep 41 From Pageants to Nashville - Dot Coms to Tik Tok. How Kimlai Yingling Has Built a Career On and Off The Screen!

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Ep 40 Making the All-Time Greatest Asian Casts with The Reel Asian Podcast

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Ep 39 Chatting with Gene Luen Yang Author and Illustrator of American Born Chinese and Much More!

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Ep 38 From Spain to Asia On a Bicycle with Sara Qiu!

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Ep 37 Composing and Performing Music with ElizabethTsung!

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Ep 36 Talking Journalism, Podcasting, and Egg Tarts with Hong Kong Journalist Isabel Wong!

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Ep 35 Chatting with SF Ballet’s Principal Dancer Frances Chung!

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(Bonus Clip) Weike Wang: Why are Books Written By Asians Red or Yellow?

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Ep 34 Chatting with the Author of Chemistry and Joan is Okay: Weike Wang!

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Ep 33 Living in Paradise! With Chris from YouTube’s Hello From Hawaii

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Ep 32 Shredding with Guitarist Rikki Lee!

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Ep 31 French Podcaster Linda Nguon of the Banh Mi Podcast!

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Talking about Pachinko (Listen Spoiler Free for the 1st Half)!

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Ep 30 Chatting with Miss San Francisco 2022 - Catherine Liang!

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Ep 29 Writing, Performing, and Releasing Your Own Music with Brian from All Arms Around

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Ep 28 Talking Personal Finance, Side Hustles, and Credit Cards with Blogger Chloe Choe!

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Pixar’s Turning Red Through the Eyes of Our Favorite Bully, Tristan Allerick Chen!

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Ep 27 A Chat with Phùc Tran - Author of Sigh Gone

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Ep 26 Modern Asian Baking at Home with Author Kat Lieu of Subtle Asian Baking!

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Ep25.2 Part Two of Our Asian True Crime Collaboration!

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E25 Asian True Crime with Teddy Teo of A Brief Case Podcast

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Ep 24.2 Bonus Colleen! And Bonus Madison and Roxane too!

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Ep 24 Fashion Designer Colleen Quen will Pump You Up!

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Ep 23 Turning a Hobby Into a Multimillion Dollar Start Up

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Ep22.2 Bonus Audio: After Chat with Super Producer Madison

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Ep 22: Fishing Tales with Adam from YouTube’s Die Hard Fishing!

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Ep21 Science! This Episode Will Make You Smarter!

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Side Dish #10: Opening a Crossfit Gym in Xi’an, China!

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

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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!

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Episode 20 Foodie Talk with My Sister Caryl and Chef Shirley Chung!

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Side Dish #9 A Modern Chinese Love Story: Us and Them

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E19 The Cleaning Lady with Creator/Executive Producer Miranda Kwok!

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Ep 18: Staring Into the Eyes of Tony Leung with Photographer Zabrina Deng!

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Ep 17 Part Two: Asian Uni Life, Work, Love and Travel in Australia

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Ep 17 Growing Up As An Asian Down Under!

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Side Dish#7: A K-Drama 2021 Year-in-Review!

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An InfatuAsian Side Dish: The Hong Konger Anthology with Sophia Hotung

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Ep 16: Cowboy Bebop! Cancelled After One Season?

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Ep 15.2 Asian Sitcoms in 2021!

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Side Dish #5: An Interview with the Director/Producer of Try Harder!

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Ep15.1 Fresh Off the Boat and Other Asian Sitcoms

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Ep 14 Love Hard: 1st Asian Male Lead in an American Rom-Com

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Ep 13.2 The Eternals Wrap-Up *With Spoilers!*

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Side Dish #4: Asians in Baseball

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Ep 13.1 Preview of Marvel Studio‘s ”The Eternals” *No Spoilers*

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Side Dish #3 Netflix Drama: My Name

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Ep 12.2 K-Drama Draft Our Final Picks!

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Side Dish #2 Star Wars Visions!

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Ep 12.1 K-Drama Fantasy Draft!

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Ep 11.2 More Asian Frozen Foods We Love!!!

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Surprise Mini Pod - Squid Game *No Spoilers... at first*

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Ep 11.1 Asian Frozen Foods That Satisfy!

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Ep10.2 K-Pop! You Can‘t Stop K-Pop!

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Ep 10 K-Pop! Our Faves from Big Bang to BTS!

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Ep 9.2 Shang-Chi an Asian Superhero! *Warning Spoilers*

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Ep 9.1 Shang Chi *No Spoilers*

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Ep 8.2 More Awesome Asian Destinations!

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Ep 8.1 Our Favorite Travel Destinations in Asia!

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Ep 7.2 More Asian Food on the Tube!!!

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Ep 7.1 Asian Food on the Tube!

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Ep 6.2 More of our Favorite Asian YouTube Creators!

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Ep 6.1 Asian YouTube Favorites!

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Ep 5.2 The Olympics 2021-2022

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Ep 5.1 The Olympic Games!

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Ep 4.2 InfatuAsian Playlist pt 2

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Ep 4 InfatuAsian Playlist pt 1

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Ep 3 InfatuAsian: Crying In H-Mart

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Ep 2 InfatuAsian: Food!

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Ep 1 InfatuAsian: K-Dramas!