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Made in Chinese America

Season 2 Episode 203 | 26m 48s

Danielle checks out an industrial kitchen where traditional “confinement meals” are made for new mothers across the country; an underground Manhattan cocktail den whose main ingredient is the fiery liquor baijiu, the world’s most heavily consumed spirit; and 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.

Aired: 05/01/17 | Expires: 05/01/29
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
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