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Gloo Books @gloobooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

One week left to pre-order our Baby Go! US books on Kickstarter!! If you can spare even $5, every little bit gets us closer to our goal! We're 56% funded and growing! Pre-order here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/glo... 🙌🏽 #kidlit #publishing #indiepress #kickstarter #booksky #kidsbooksky

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Gloo Books @gloobooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Ppsssttt! A VERY ASIAN GUIDE YO TAIWANESE FOOD releases next Tues, Sept 16th, 2025!

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Plus themed bites by past guest Jessic Fu and (possible future guest) Henry Hsu And if you’re looking for some recipes, find three great ones in the back of this book, including one for Nancy’s Nai Nai’s scallion pancakes. We’ll be trying these out in our house along with tea eggs. Listen now:

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A Very Asian Guide to Taiwanese Food — Worst Quality Crab Podcast

We’re talking many, many things Taiwanese food with Nancy Jeng and Felicia Liang, the author and illustrator of A Very Asian Guide to Taiwanese Food. We talk about Nancy and Felicia’s childhood embarr...

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Find this wonderful beautiful book on @gloobooks.bsky.social or wherever you get your books, and hang out with Nancy and Felicia at their book launch event at On Waverly on Sunday, September 14.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We talk about how their author/illustrator collaboration came to be, Nancy’s long-con to get her husband to cook Taiwanese classics, the untapped potential of Taiwan’s beaches, and the popularity of Trader Joe’s scallion pancakes.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We’re talking many, many things Taiwanese food with Nancy Jeng and Felicia Liang, the author and illustrator of A Very Asian Guide to Taiwanese Food.

Worst Quality Crab - Episode 45: Nancy Jeng and Felicia Liang, Author and Illustrator of A Very Asian Guide to Taiwanese Food, published by Gloo Books. Pictured: Cover to A Very Asian Guide to Taiwanese Food with along with headshots of Nancy Jeng and Felicia Liang.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Find Gloo Book’s kickstarter for their Baby Go series, and check out all the wonderful Gloo Books titles on their website. We are serious fans of many of these and if you find yourself here, you’ll at the very least love the Very Asian Guide to.. Series.

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BABY GO! US

Baby Go! US explores the rich culture and diversity of the United States through travel, brought to you by Gloo Books.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

We talk a lot about the many wonderful titles under Gloo Books, Karen gives us a peek inside the publishing world, and we get the inside scoop on some brand new baby books that we can all help kickstart! Plus we come up with an oyster-based business idea for her dad.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

We talk with Karen about the nostalgia of visiting her grandparents in Taiwan and eating tea eggs from the convenience store, her mom’s less enthusiastic approach to food, and the connective power of food and travel.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

This episode we’re talking with Karen Chan, founder of Glow Books (@gloobooks.bsky.social) about not one, but two of her childhood favorites, Taiwanese tea eggs and her mom’s oxtail stew! If you’re hungry now you might want to go get a snack.

Episode 44: Karen Chan of Gloo Books. Image of Karen Chan next to the three Baby Go! books featuring California, New York, and Texas, in the Kickstarter campaign.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

and stories that feel like they’re from 20 years ago but are, unfortunately, still true today. Plus we talk about Kaila’s experience as an import model, Chinese school, and padding that college application with extracurriculars.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

This episode we talk with author Kaila Yu ( @kailayu.bsky.social), new book Fetishized and her classic Taiwanese comfort food, Lu Rou Fan. We’re a little light on the food this episode but spend lots of time on Kaila’s new book, the fetishization of Asian women,

Episode 43: Kaila Yu, Image of author Kaila You next to her book Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Listen wherever you get your podcasts and let us know if you’ve got a good spot for Okonomiyaki. As much as we aspire to be Sakura’s mom, we’re probably just ordering out for this one. But if you do want to give it a go at home, grab her mom’s recipe and let us know how it turns out.

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Okonomiyaki — Worst Quality Crab Podcast

Whoops, we accidentally took a summer break. We just have so many kids and so little free time. But we’re back and we’re excited to talk with actor and marketer Sakura Nakahara about her favorite chil...

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

We talk with Sakura about being the black sheep of the family for pursuing a science career, growing up with picture-perfect bento box lunches, and her eventual journey to the stage. Plus her sister’s diabolical game night and her possible sixth-sense for grapes.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Not just a childhood treat, today it serves as her mother’s love language, bribe language, apology and so much more.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Episode 42: Okonomiyaki, close up photo of Japanese dish Okonomiyaki

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Listen in as we try to keep our cool and Freesia almost makes it through the whole episode without crying, almost. Huge thanks to Tamlyn for being so gracious and so generous with her time and storytelling. Truly a best quality heart. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or on our site:

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TAMLYN TOMITA! — Worst Quality Crab Podcast

We can’t even pretend to have chill about this. On this extra special episode, we interview the namesake of our mascot and inspiration for the title of the show, Waverly herself, the legend, the icon,...

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Plus she shares one of her all-time comfort foods, what it meant growing up as the daughter of an Okinawan-Filipina mom and a Japanese-American cop dad.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We of course ask Tamlyn about the Joy Luck Club, what it meant 30 years ago, what it means now, and her thoughts on playing Waverly. She also talks Karate Kid II, her equally iconic role of Kumiko, and her personal ties to it as a person of Okinawan-descent.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Plus creating community and bringing people back to Chinatown, super cool events series and spaces, and that one time Freesia met a Grammy winner when she was hanging out at On Waverly.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Cynthia talks about representation through retail, her relationship with her grandparents and how that has led to intergenerational friendships as an adult, and how our kids get to take a lot of things for granted–and that’s a good thing!

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Cynthia shares her childhood fondness for shrimp chips made at home by her grandfather, her lasting love for the crunchy, salty, airy snack.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We’re honoring AAPI month with one of our favorite local AAPI community leaders, Cynthia Huie, owner of On Waverly, an AAPI gift shop and bookstore in the heart of Chinatown.

On Waverly shop owner Cynthia Huie next to a bowl of shrimp chips. Labels: "Episode 40: Shrimp Chips with Cynthia Huie"

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Eddie shares how his full throttle into new foods led him to cooking classes, traveling for food, and eventually to the businesses he runs today teaching dumpling classes and promoting premium soy sauce Liv Cook Eat. Listen now on our site or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Hong Shao Rou — Worst Quality Crab Podcast

This episode we pick up the soy sauce/restaurant kid threads with guest Eddie Lo. Now a food professional himself, Eddie talks about growing up in Chinese restaurant and being raised by amazing cooks,...

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We talk about growing up in Wisconsin and Southern California eating exclusively Chinese food, having a first hamburger in college, and then never looking back on trying new foods.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Episode 39: Hong Shao You with Eddie Lo. A deliciously brown looking bowl of braised pork spare ribs sitting in the perfect amount of sauce with a ladle to help you get all the goods.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This was a just for fun attempt to crown one Chinese dish winner among many excellent choices. It was all for goofs and laughs so please don’t @ us if your favorite dish didn’t make it out of the first round or didn’t make the brackets.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We partnered with our friend Curtis Chinn of the Infatuasian podcast (@infatuasianpodcast.bsky.social) and our friend Cynthia Huie at On Waverly to record this live, with an audience inside of On Waverly, the best AAPI gift shop and bookstore in Chinatown.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

On this episode we’re doing something a little different. In the spirit of March Madness we present to you, March Madness of Chinese Cuisine!

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Listen wherever you get your podcasts and check out Laura’s book at your favorite local bookstore. We know for sure that On Waverly is carrying this one, among many other excellent reads. www.worstqualitycrab.com/episodes/soy...

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Soy Sauce! — Worst Quality Crab Podcast

This episode we’re talking about everyone’s favorite cooking staple and condiment (please don’t @ us if it’s not your fave) soy sauce, with author and illustrator Laura G. Lee who has a new children’s...

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We of course talk about Laura’s beautiful book–painted with real soy sauce– her many visits to schools and classrooms to share the book with kids, and the emotional intelligence of kids to not yuck yums.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We talk with Laura about growing up in West Virginia among mostly blond-haired blue eyed children, her parents' decision not to pass along the Korean language, and her mother’s use of soy sauce in just about everything.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Author Laura G. Lee's photo with cover to Soy Sauce!

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Plus cookbooks that are more than instruction manuals, life after being a restaurant critic, and the pleasing excess of the Rancho Gordo Bean club. Plus cookbooks that are more than instruction manuals, life after being a restaurant critic, and the pleasing excess of the Rancho Gordo Bean club.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We talk about Soleil’s journey from a baby gourmand to full-blown professional gourmand, a possible time-travel moment, and braising lamb on a campus full of vegans.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

They talk about the dish bahn khot, and eating it fresh off the griddle while their grandmother kept slinging it out, short order cook-style for many, many grandchildren, and why it’s so hard to find a good one outside of Vietnam.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

On this episode we are delighted to have all-around-knowledgeable-and-thoughtful-food-person, former SF Chronicle food critic, current columnist, and cookbook author @soleilho.com!

Text: Episode 36: Banh Khot with Soleil Ho. Pictured: a plate of delicious banh khot

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So glad to finally meet you irl! There were many highlights yesterday but taking this pic of you inside the stupa is by far one of the best!! More hangs in the future!

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We also talk about pivoting from the perceived stability of a cushy tech marketing job to being a baker, the near-comical naming conventions—or lack thereof—of Chinese pastry, and if Amy’s dad may or may not be Garfield.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We talk about Amy’s diligent testing to turn her grandmother’s loosey-goosey recipe into a near-exact replica, her mother’s version that could feed an army, and honoring the recipe while still using an Instant Pot for a lil modern day ease.

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This episode we’re joined by cookie maker extraordinaire Amy Wong of Batch 22 Bakery. Lunar New Year might be a little behind us for the year but Amy’s dish, leen goh, is so classic and so beloved we’ll talk about it any time of year.

A plate of sliced leen goh dipped in egg and fried

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Worst Quality Crab Podcast @worstqualitycrab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thank you to KALW for featuring us as part of their Bay Made series and thank you to guests Margot Seeto, Eric Ehler, and Deanna Ulrich for joining us to talk about their Lunar New Year traditions as kids and what LNY means to them as adults.

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