Chinese American Bear Discuss Their New Album and Explain Potato Europe vs Tomato Europe

About this episode

Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten of Chinese American Bear discuss their new album and share tour experiences.

Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten of the Seattle via Chicago vs New York band Chinese American Bear join Ryan Pak to discuss their new album, Dim Sum and Then Some, which was released back on May 8, 2026. They discuss Anne and Bryce's favorite cities to get dim sum, their favorite meal on tour, the strangest meal they've had on tour, and how they came up with the band name. They also discuss some of their favorite scores and they play Life in 3 Tracks. Chinese American Bear is out on tour now! For More Information About Chinese American Bear: Website Bandcamp Instagram Calling All Angels (432 hz), the new single by mehro. Listen to the single here!: ⁠⁠https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/mehro_callingallangels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Ryan Pak

Guests: Anne Tong, Bryce Barsten

Topics covered

• music
• album discussion
• tour experiences
• food
• band name origin
• film scores

Keywords

• Chinese American Bear
• Dim Sum and Then Some
• tour meals
• band name
• film scores

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chinese American Bear, mehro

Products: Calling All Angels (432 hz)

Books & works: Dim Sum and Then Some

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