James Sing is a restaurateur and raconteur like no other. His family has a long, turbulent history with China. And yet he still moved back here to start the long-standing Australian restaurant Kakadu. Today’s track is Living on Mars by Johnny Utah and the Utards. Thanks for listening

Holistic health coach Lizzy Schieffelin is founder of Shanghai smoothie company Lizzy’s All Natural. She is at the forefront of a flock of ambitious western F&B entrepreneurs upping Shanghai’s food game, and an even smaller crew who fill up the city’s many farmer’s markets. And she had an unexpected take on keeping healthy here. Today’s track […]

Morten Fausbøll is the director of a trading company which connects Africa with China. He’s also a Danish comedian, and a KFK original who was in our first ever stand up show almost 6 years ago. He leaves China today, so we sat down to talk about his 10 year journey, but ended up going […]

Andy Wang is an American third degree Brazilian jiujitsu black belt making him one of the highest ranked jiu jitsu black belts of Chinese descent, in the world. He was on season 5 of the US TV show Ultimate Fighter, competed in the UFC, fought around Asia, and is now living in Beijing as a coach, playing […]

By day Drew Fralick’s a mental health counselor in the Chinese public hospital system, and by night he’s a globetrotting comedian. He’s been in China for the better part of a decade and has some amazing stories along the way, like the time he met Hillary Clinton. Today’s track is No One Knows by Mark Ronson. […]

Ben Wood is the architect who imagined and created Shanghai’s iconic commercial district, Xintiandi. He was a jet fighter pilot who went on to work on some major projects, and is responsible for much of today’s Times Square in New York City. He also revealed me how dangerous it is to be in every high […]

Anson Chen is an incredible magician and the owner of Bund 18, home of Bar Rouge, Mr & Mrs Bund as well as other Shanghai F&B institutions. And he’s about to launch a new show in Shanghai called Lost in Deception (get tickets here). We talked about his journey into magic and how he was brought away from […]

Dwayne Perkins was listed as one of Rolling Stone’s top five comics to watch, just released a Netflix special and was a correspondent on The Jay Leno Show. We caught up in his hotel in Shanghai after his China tour with KFK, and got into a long conversation about trust, and what we’d like to […]

Stephen Wright (not the iconic 80s comedian) is an advertising exec and video producer who worked in Shanghai on big projects for Disney, Ford and Exxon Mobil, just to name a few. He’s the first guest we’ve had who has properly moved on from China, and had a really insightful take on life inside and […]

Simon Cockerell has been to North Korea over 150 times. He’s the GM of Koryo Tours, a company which pioneered Western tourism in the 90s to the most isolated country on earth. Despite a modicum of modesty, he knows more about the country than almost any non-North Korean and even hung out with Dennis Rodman […]