Asianati Eats with Bengals Wide Receiver Andrei Iosivas

JP Leong

Jun 26, 2024

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Cincinnati Bengals Wide Receiver Andrei Iosivas sat down with Asianati's Samantha Burke for an amazing conversation about his favorite foods, growing-up hapa, and the smashing success of his early NFL career.

Grilled Shrimp in a Kamayan setting

Centering our time together was a Kamayan feast prepared by Chef Mapi De Vera of Nice-Nice Noodles & Rice and themed around Andrei's life. Delicious foods like grilled shrimp and Filipino spaghetti were the prompts for this wide-ranging interview.

Here are all the foods on Andrei's special kamayan setting:

  • Garlic fried rice with furikake
  • Deconstructed sinigang: sinigang ribs (Roasted ribs with sinigang flavor) served with sinigang veggies and a side of sinigang broth
  • Grilled chicken adobo
  • Hawaiian garlic shrimp
  • Lumpia shanghai
  • Pancit canton
  • Fruit - mangoes and dragonfruit
  • Halo-halo for dessert
  • Filipino spaghetti

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Watch the latest episode of Asianati Eats HERE on YouTube.

Featuring Andrei Iosivas and Samantha Burke
Directed by JP Leong and Samantha Burke
Produced by Lam Dang
Production Assistants: Sarah Kramer and Vidita Kanniks
Special Thanks: Giacomo Ciminello, Jordan Hammons, and Bao Nguyen
Music Track: "gameboy memories" by Rocket Sloth

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