Introduction -- Original track: laying the foundations in Xi'an -- Remix: making it work in middle-of-nowhere America -- Throwback: finding a new place to call home -- Grind: making it in NYC -- Party: work hard, play hard -- Homecoming: rediscovering Xi'an -- The (bitter)sweet stuff: our past and present.

Original track: How to cook rice -- Five rules to boiling noodles -- Roasted sesame seeds -- Red chili powder -- Garlic puree -- XFF chili oil -- Bone broth -- XFF noodle sauce -- XFF Liang Pi sauce -- XFF dumpling sauce -- Daily bread -- Longevity noodles -- Liang PI "cold skin noodles" and seitan: what it is and how to make it -- Biang-biang (or hand-ripped) noodles -- Hot oil-seared biang-biang noodles -- How to serve anything over rice -- How to make anything as a burger -- How to serve anything with noodles -- How to serve anything with noodles in soup -- Remix: Makeshift vinegar -- XFF ramen -- Fried chicken wings with XFF spices -- Fiddlehead fern salad -- Hot-and-sour soup -- Brussels sprouts with shrimp sauce -- Blistered tiger shishito peppers -- Five-flavor beef shank -- Pork Juan Bing -- Pineapple chicken -- Hong Shao "red braised" spareribs -- Beef stew with potatoes -- Pork Zha Jiang -- Zha Jiang noodles with wasabi.

Throwback: Starter salads -- Spicy and sour carrot salad -- Julienned potato salad -- Spicy Asian cucumber salad -- Seitan salad -- Dumplings -- Dumpling skin dough -- Spinach dumpling filling -- Lamb dumpling filling -- Pork and chives dumpling filling -- Pot stickers -- XFF spicy and sour dumplings -- XFF spicy and sour dumplings soup -- Eggs and tomatoes -- Dry pot chicken -- Twice-cooked pork belly -- Beef and ginkgo congee -- Hot pot -- Spicy and tingly hot pot broth -- Herbal hot pot broth -- Grind -- Tiger vegetables salad -- Lamb meat soup -- Lamb pao-mo soup -- Liang pi "cold skin noodles" -- Stir-fried Liang pi "cold skin noodles" -- Concubine's chicken -- Spicy and tingly beef -- Stewed pork -- Spicy cumin lamb -- Mt. Qi Pork -- Mt. Qi vegetables -- Stewed oxtail -- Party -- Spicy and tingly lamb face salad -- Stewed lamb spine -- Skewers -- XFF spicy and tingly sauce -- Homemade green onion oil -- Spicy and tingly boiled bean curd sheet skewers -- Spicy and tingly boiled beef tripe skewers -- Spicy cumin fish tofu skewers -- Spicy cumin buns -- Spicy cumin chicken skewers -- Spicy cumin chicken heart skewers -- Spicy cumin chicken gizzard skewers -- Spicy cumin beef skewers -- Spicy cumin beef tendon skewers -- Spicy cumin pig intestines skewers -- Spicy cumin lamb skewers -- Spicy cumin squid skewers -- Spicy cumin whole fish -- Fresh watermelon soju cocktail -- Green tea and Hennessy -- Yogurt-flavored soju cocktail -- Fruit plate

Homecoming: Spicy steamed potato hash -- Spinach cakes -- Hoolah soup -- Beef Xiao Chao Pao-Mo soup -- Little "fish" in celery broth -- Spicy and sour mung bean jelly -- Five nuts and seeds "chowder" -- Sesame Liang Pi "cold skin noodles" -- Hong Shao braised striped bass -- Iron pot lamb stew -- Steamed celery bites -- Steamed rice-coated lamb -- West Fu "pretzels -- The (bitter)sweet stuff -- Hard-candied fruits on a stick -- Sweet soup with white wood ear mushrooms -- Mountain yam with osmanthus syrup -- Candy "silk" sweet potatoes -- Sweet fermented rice soup -- Tangyuan (with sesame or hawberry filling) -- Chilled rice cake with honey -- "Zeng Gao" rice cake -- Eight treasures congee -- Layered rice cake.