Worst Quality Crab

Worst Quality Crab episodes:

• 05.30.2024

  Episode 22: Happy AANHPI Month with Freesia & Samson Lee

  Happy AANHPI Heritage Month and Happy Anniversary to us! We can’t believe it’s been a whole year of doing this show. In this guestless episode, we sit down for our annual performance review and talk about what it’s been like...

  
• 05.10.2024

  Episode 21: Kaula Pig with Brian Tom

  Hold on to your butts! Your pork butts that is. This episode, guest Brian Tom brings us his family’s recipe for Kalua Pig and we’re very excited about it. For Brian’s family, this seemingly easy, low maintenance recipe became a...

  
• 04.26.2024

  Episode 20: Halo-halo with Lorraine Esturas-Pierson

  It’s finally happened!! This episode we have our first dessert! On this one we’re joined by Lorraine Esturas-Pierson as she talks about her favorite childhood dessert, halo-halo, a Filipino dish that means mix mix. We talk about why halo-halo might...

  
• 03.27.2024

  Episode 19: Restaurant Kid with Julia Louie

  We’ve talked a lot about Chinese restaurants in past episodes. On this one we’re getting a look into the kitchen from our guest and former restaurant kid Julia Louie. We hear what it’s like to grow up in a Chinese...

  
• 03.04.2024

  Episode 18: Iritamago with Vincent Beck

  This episode we’re joined by Vincent Beck, Bay Area creative and street photographer, and it is eggs-cellent! Fluffy eggs-cellent to be exact! He shares his mom’s recipe for iritamago, a sweet and fluffy egg dish served over rice.  We talk about...

  
• 02.16.2024

  Episode 17: Tinola with Nicole Lugtu

  Valentine’s Day might be behind us but we’re here telling the love story between our guest Nicole Lugtu and her fave dish tinola. Or maybe more accurately, the love between Nicole and chicken. Listen in as Nicole and Sam talk...

  
• 01.24.2024

  Episode 16: SPAM FAM! with Jaime Sunwoo

  We’re baaaack!! Wooo! We did not mean to be away for so long but cold and flu season absolutely wrecked all of December. But we’re back with a follow up to our SPAM episode and we’re joined by special guest...

  
• 11.21.2023

  Episode 15: Mom’s Thanksgiving Stuffing with Ken Cho

  We’re forever celebrating the everyday dishes, but we just couldn’t help ourselves getting in on a little holiday cheer! This episode we’re joined by Ken Cho, bringing us his favorite holiday dish, Mom’s Thanksgiving Stuffing. We talk about growing up...

  
• 11.10.2023

  Episode 14: Paratha with Neha Gautam

  This episode we’re joined by Neha Gautam, filmmaker, photographer, educator and writer director of Passenger Seat, bringing us paratha, or more specifically her childhood version of paneer stuffed paratha with ketchup because kid palette.  We talk about “Indian pizza” as a...

  
• 10.27.2023

  Episode 13: Sinigang with Shaun Garcia

  In this episode we’re joined by Shaun Garcia, husband, father and noodle soup connoisseur about his fave soup and classic Filipino dish, Sinigang, which doesn’t happen to have noodles, in case you’re wondering! We talk about growing up in the...

  
• 10.12.2023

  Episode 12: Chorizo and Eggs with Nicole Fox

  In a slight deviation in programming, we’re sneaking in at the end of Hispanic Heritage Month with our first non-Asian guest! This episode we bring on long time friend of Freesia’s and #1 WQC super fan Nicole Fox. Despite her...

  
• 09.28.2023

  Episode 11: Mapo Tofu with Christian Wu

  This is a spicy one! No really, the dish is spicy. On this episode we talk to Christian Wu about his mom’s Mapo Tofu, something so relatable, and so beloved by Christian, and honestly his mom’s version sounds way better...

  
• 09.13.2023

  Episode 10: SPAMFIGHT! with Jin Yoo-Kim & Margot Seeto

  For this momentous 10th episode, we’re putting recipes aside to talk about the great Asian and Asian American uniter, SPAM! Our guests are writer Margot Seeto and filmmaker Jin Yoo-Kim, creators of SPAMFIGHT!, a short film inspired by a love...

  
• 08.24.2023

  Episode 9: Sujebi with Haeny Yoon

  On this episode we’ve got Haeny Yoon, host of Pop and Play podcast, bringing us her childhood dish sujebi. Was it a snack? Was it dinner? When you’re in middle school, is there a difference?? We talk about growing up...

  
• 08.16.2023

  Episode 8: S.E.R. with Alyssa Saquilayan

  This episode we’re talking with nurse coach Alyssa Saquilayan about her ultimate comfort dish, spam eggs and rice. While it’s not a recipe, we talk about how this quick simple meal was a point of bonding among a generation of...

  
• 07.27.2023

  Episode 7: Big Fat Rice Noodle Roll with Crystal Chin

  We’re biased but this is an especially fun one for us! We’re talking to loooong time friend of the show, designer Crystal Chin, about her mom’s Big Fat Rice Noodle Roll (official, technical title). We talk about growing up ethnically...

  
• 07.13.2023

  Episode 6: Spaghetti and Meatballs with Melanie Pochat

  Mangia! This episode we’re talking with stylist and SAHM Melanie Pochat of Matre Style about her mom’s spaghetti and meatballs. We talk about what it’s like having two parents who were avid cooks, and what it’s like growing up in...

  
• 06.28.2023

  Episode 5: Vegetarian Moussaka with Freesia Lee

  It’s a switcheroo this time as Freesia gets a taste of her own medicine when she scoots into the hot seat and Sam grills her on vegetarian moussaka. It’s a distinctly non-Asian dish and with it’s many components and steps,...

  
• 06.07.2023

  Episode 4: Ham-BUR-Gah! with Angela and Samson Lee

  In this very special episode we keep it in the family! We’re talking to Sam’s sister Angela about her childhood dinnertime lifeline, Ham-BUR-gah! (IYKYK) and what it’s like to grow up and cook as an adult in the shadow of...

  
• 05.26.2023

  Episode 3: Mom’s Chicken with Deanna and Rob Ulrich

  We’re talking to our friends Deanna and Rob, about being bi-racial in very white Virginia in the 90s, and what it’s like growing up in the same house, eating the same foods, but having different takes on the same experiences....

  
• 05.25.2023

  Episode 2: Arroz Caldo with Nicole Cruz

  We’re joined by Nicole Cruz, Life & Leadership Coach to 1st & 2nd generation immigrants, to talk about her childhood sick-day soup, Arroz Caldo. We talk about the importance of food in Filipino culture, honoring our elders through their recipes,...

  
• 05.24.2023

  Episode 1: Minced Beef with Peas with Margot Seeto & Samson Lee

  It’s our very first episode! We’re talking to Bay Area food & travel writer Margot Seeto who helped inspire this whole dang thing. We’ll talk with her about minced beef with peas—aka Peas a la Seeto at her house—and how...

  
• 05.23.2023

  An Introduction

  Freesia and Sam welcome you and discuss the origins of the show and title. For more stories and recipes, please visit worstqualitycrab.com and follow us on Instagram @worstqualitycrab.