E1: TRENDING JAPANESE

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American obsession with Japanese obsessiveness. Japanese style cat cafe in New York, a French Japanophile opens an unlikely okonomiyaki business and Danielle learns to throw her weight around with sumo wrestlers hungry for chanko nabe.

E2: ASIAN FARM TO TABLE

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Kristyn Leach farms organic heirloom Korean produce in the East Bay for hot SF restaurant Namu Gaji. Ross Koda is a third generation Japanese American rice farmer in the central valley. Tim Hall and Jeff Roller are the only fresh wasabi farmers in the entire US.

E3: FOOD OF THE GODS

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The relationship between faith and food is evident at three Asian houses of worship: an imposing Buddhist temple where Danielle is served an artful vegetarian feast; a Sikh temple where she helps cook Indian flatbread for a communal meal where all are welcome; and a Queens mosque’s annual food fair to sample Indonesian dishes and learning about life as a Muslim in America.

E4: MADE IN CHINA

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“Confinement meals” are made for new mothers across the country. An underground Manhattan cocktail den whose main ingredient is baijiu. A wedding in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown where old world and new meet at the banquet table and on the dance floor.

E5: THE NEW INDIAN

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Breaking away from a culinary monoculture. Inday by Basu Ratnam, Tiffin Junction by Jawahar Chirimai, Pawaari Kothari’s Chai Cart and Jesse and Jennifer Singh bring Babu Ji to Alphabet City.

E6: TAIWAN'S TRUE FLAVOR

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Making Taiwanese beef noodle soup with Cathy Erway, author of Foods of Taiwan. Homesick young expats open Taiwan Bear House and specialize in biandang. A twilight visit to 626 Night Market in California’s Orange County.

E7: ASIAN FOOD, AMERICAN DREAM

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Asian-American entrepreneurs share the secrets of their success: Tim Wildin, the young Chipotle executive who launches Thai-inspired Shophouse; Lynda Trang Dai, once known as the Vietnamese Madonna and now the queen of banh mi sandwiches in Orange County’s Little Saigon; and Charles Phan, the ground-breaking chef of Slanted Door.