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Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang: Bay Area Part 3

Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang: Bay Area Part 3

Chef Eddie Huang continues his new web series “Fresh Off the Boat” in the San Francisco Bay Area. Eddie kicks it with Julez of the Barber Gang, a crew of Filipinos who cut fades and liners in Little Manila aka Daly City. While getting his cut, Eddie Huang hangs with local rap group The Jealous Guys talking about the “lotus flower.” After his buzz, Eddie and Julez heads off to Julez’s favorite Filipino joint to talk chicken adobo, and how sisig could become the next sushi. Also in this episode, Eddie hits up multiple burrito dives in the Mission District of San Francisco, where he gives you a locals only tour ending with him crowning his personal favorites.

Previous episodes:
Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang: Bay Area Part 1
Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang: Bay Area Part 2

Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang: Bay Area Part 3 (contains profanity)

Fresh Off the Boat 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.

Bacon Portabella Melt Wendy’s commercial with Aaron Takahashi

 Bacon Portabella Melt Wendy's commercial with Aaron Takahashi

Actor/comedian Aaron Takahashi is the pitchman for the latest Wendy’s commercial promoting the Bacon Portabella Melt. In the ad, Aaron is chowing down on a Bacon Portabella Melt. When a co-worker asks him if he’s had lunch, he says no and gets another Bacon Portabella Melt.

Also see Aaron Takahashi in REPRESENT.

Bacon Portabella Melt Wendy’s commercial with Aaron Takahashi

Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang: Bay Area Part 2

Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang: Bay Area Part 1

Chef Eddie Huang continues his new web series “Fresh Off the Boat” in the San Francisco Bay Area. After his visit in Oakland, Eddie heads across the bay to the Mission District in San Francisco with the girls who run a pop-up, street dining gig in the city, Rice Paper Scissors. Their Vietnamese food is some of city’s best and brings buddies together to cook and hang out wherever they find space, even in the middle of the street. The Rice Paper Scissors girls show Eddie their go-to food spots to prep for their meals, before grilling up octopus, drinking rice wine and talking food as culture’s gateway drug. Nothing like srichacha sauce on the lip of a can of Coke.

Previous episodes:
Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang: Bay Area Part 1

Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang: Bay Area Part 2 (contains profanity)

Fresh Off the Boat 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.

Monster Roll : short film

Monster Roll : short film

Since Halloween is right around the corner, the short film Monster Roll has been released online. Long ago, man had a pact with the sea to only kill what we eat. However, this pact was broken. Now, the sea seeks its revenge. When sea monsters attack, sushi chefs must defend their turf. It’s packed with visual effect that will have you thinking twice about eating sushi. The war has begun. Monster Roll stars Masashi Odate, Steve Howey, Hidetoshi Imura, Gerald Okamura, and more.

Also check out these other sushi related videos: The Story of Sushi, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Sushi to Slaughter : the Bluefin Tuna, and The Cove.

Monster Roll : short film

Before and after visual effect for Monster Roll : short film

Horseless Headsman Snickers commercial

Horseless Headsman Snickers commercial

As we get closer to Halloween, we are increasingly seeing this Snickers commercial. When he’s hungry in Halloween, the Headless Horseman becomes the Horseless Headsman. On Halloween night, kids are out trick or treating and along comes a giant head with kids’ feet sticking out. The head is a CGI head of a white haired older man, who bumps into a car as he walks down the sidewalk and encounters a group of kids. It says, “I am here for your heads! I’m the horseless headsman”. The kid in the alien costume says, “I think you mean the headless horseman”. “No, I mean the horseless headsman”, the big head replies. The Asian kid dressed as dracula says, “Have a Snickers”, and hands him a Snickers Bar. Big Head says, “Why?” Asian kid replies, “Because you get confused when you’re hungry”. Big Head puts Snickers in his mouth and eats it. Asian kid says, “Better?” Big Head says, “Better!” The commercial concludes with the tag line “You’re not you when your’re hungry”. Like this post if you’ve seen this commercial.

Horseless Headsman Snickers commercial