Dave is joined by Chris Ying, Chris Bianco, and Kelly Meinhardt for Part 2 of a two-part episode. Dave and Chris Bianco talk about their experiences going on talk shows to cook, before getting into a live version of the Pronunciation Bee. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guests: Chris Bianco and Kelly Meinhardt Producers: Victoria Valencia, Cory McConnell, and Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Dave is joined by Chris Ying, Chris Bianco, and Kelly Meinhardt for the first of two episodes. Part 1 deals with an interesting traffic-based conundrum, a check-in on Master of Your Domain, and Chris Bianco’s secret Instagram weakness. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guests: Chris Bianco and Kelly Meinhardt Producers: Victoria Valencia, Cory McConnell, and Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 18, 2024•49 min
Dave and Chris continue to thrive through their Master of Your Domain challenge while playing How to Menu with Chicago’s Anelya (the new Ukrainian spot from Parachute’s Johnny Clark and Beverly Kim) and Curtis Stone’s Gwen in Los Angeles. Later in the episode, the two have a low-carb-themed MOIF. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Producers: Victoria Valencia and Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 15, 2024•43 min
Dave and Chris kick off the pod with a check-in on their Master of Your Domain challenge. They later play a game of Price Fixing (or Culinary Battleship), which covers the menus at afternoon tea icon the Wolseley in London, Haitian newcomer T’chaka in Oakland, and sleek-and-chic Lebanese restaurant Leila in Detroit. Dave and Chris also discuss how context and situations can determine the perception of someone’s success. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Producers: Victoria Valencia and Euno Lee L...
Jan 11, 2024•59 min
Dave and Chris get into a forward-looking discussion about food and restaurant trends they think they’ll see in the coming year. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Producers: Victoria Valencia and Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 08, 2024•56 min
Dave and Chris kick off the new year by reflecting on 2023’s New Year’s resolutions, setting some new goals for the coming year, and giving some clarifications on the Master of Your Domain challenge. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Producers: Victoria Valencia and Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 04, 2024•51 min
Dave is joined by Chris Ying, Chris Bianco and Kelly Meinhardt for a game of Buy or Sell: 2024 Food Trends edition. Topics covered include: espresso martinis, SPAM, buckwheat, the Tesla Cyber Truck, sleep wellness, and scamorza cheese.Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guests: Chris Bianco and Kelly Meinhardt Producer: Victoria Valencia and Euno Lee Additional Production Supervision: Cory McConnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Dave is joined by Basqueland Brewing cofounder and CEO Kevin Patricio to discuss travel and eating tips in the resort city of San Sebastián. Host: Dave Chang Guest: Kevin Patricio Producers: Victoria Valencia and Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 11 min
It’s time for a year-end roundup as Dave revisits his year in eating and time on the road. He gives his favorite bite of food, favorite restaurant, and favorite city visit in a year filled with traveling. Host: Dave Chang Producers: Victoria Valencia and Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 18, 2023•53 min
Dave opens the episode talking about a conversation he had with a friend’s teenage son, leading to him giving some timeless advice about getting through high school. Pro Football Food Weekly gets into a heavyweight matchup between two of Dave’s All-USA First-Team Eating cities: Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Dave picks a winner and makes a bold proclamation about which city has the best Chinese food in the States. Dave breaks down the matchups (giving some major restaurant recommendations along the ...
Dec 14, 2023•44 min
Chris Ying joins Dave for a holiday-themed episode. The two share a Dads segment where they talk about what to get their kids, whether putting coal in a stocking would be frowned upon, and Dave’s biggest tool when it comes to keeping the kids in line during the holidays. Other topics discussed include Christmas songs, Dave’s surprise pick for best holiday movie, best holiday smells, and what to get Korean and Chinese in-laws (or potential future in-laws) for the holidays. Hosts: Dave Chang and C...
Dec 11, 2023•52 min
Dave and Chris are joined by guest Van Lathan as they discuss the impact of TikTok food critic Keith Lee, the concept of Black exceptionalism (and its signifiers), as well as the cultural impact and legacy of restaurateur, designer, and artist Michael Chow and his eponymous restaurant, Mr Chow. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Van Lathan Producers: Victoria Valencia and Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Dave gets into the episode talking about his experience in Abu Dhabi. His encounter with a 6,500-year-old stone bust causes him to ponder: What would humanity look like in 6,500 years, and how trivial do things seem given what might actually be remembered? Three Things sees Dave talk about the things he looks for in cooks—and the level of resourcefulness required from cooks to impress legendary chef André Soltner. Other topics covered include Dave’s opinions on fireplaces, various noodle soups, ...
Dec 04, 2023•51 min
Dave kicks off the episode with a theory: Are Japanese and Italian restaurants and steakhouses more ubiquitous worldwide because of the scalability of labor? He ponders the implications of these types of restaurants, and the impact they might have on creatively ambitious restaurants. Three Things sees Dave answer the prompt, “If he could travel in time and ask three historical figures anything, what would he ask?” One of the answers leads to Dave explaining the profound influence of the salmon w...
Nov 30, 2023•39 min
Dave waxes nostalgic about the best Christmas gift he ever received as a kid before getting into a quick aside about a Korean tradition that many children look forward to. The episode continues with a segment where Dave reads (and responds to) a couple of reviews left by Yelp Elite members. He rounds out the episode with a Theoretical Potluck where he tries to think of who would be invited to his dream potluck—and in doing so, he names some of his favorite cooks in the industry. Hosts: Dave Chan...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Chris Ying joins Dave as they talk about Dave’s experiences working at the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix. Three Things sees Dave come up with a guide to conquering Thanksgiving as a guest, and one major rule all cooks need to institute on the big day. Dave and Chris then get into a game of Restaurant Balderdash, where they try to guess which of these individuals had actually been to the restaurant they’re describing. 'The Dave Chang Show' would like to wish everyone a safe, delicious, and happy Thanks...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Dave checks the mailbag from the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix. Questions include how to do one’s honeymoon in Europe (and the best places to visit in late spring), the one condiment he would choose for the rest of his life (if it couldn’t be Momofuku chili crunch), and his take on Japanese vs. Scottish whiskey. A listener asks if anything like Lucky Peach exists in today’s food media environment, and Dave ruminates on whether it would actually work given the way media has evolved. The episode rounds ...
Nov 20, 2023•54 min
What are the best ways to plan (and maybe cook) your Thanksgiving feast in advance? Dave weighs in with a couple of tips out of the Culinary Dark Arts textbook. Dave also talks about the awkward political bargaining that occurs when a chef decides to step out of the kitchen and into the dining room to visit guests. Pro Football Food Weekly pits Cincinnati against Baltimore—does the city of Old Bay and J.O. Spice have what it takes to overcome Dave’s love of Graeter’s ice cream? Hosts: Dave Chang...
Nov 16, 2023•40 min
Dave starts the episode off with three Thanksgiving foods he thinks should be replaced, including his annual anti–pumpkin pie rant and a controversial protein replacement. Dave is joined later in the episode by Ben Solak, host of 'The Play Sheet,' to discuss how Ben became one of the foremost football film analysts in the country. The two also touch on work-life balance (and why Ben isn’t sure he wants to work for an NFL team) and how Ben’s upbringing played a role in his career path. Hosts: Dav...
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Dave kicks off the episode talking about his experience at the Momofuku corporate retreat, where he exercises restraint in making a witty quip—and ponders what that says about himself. Chris Ying joins the pod and the two get into an Ask Dave/Dads hybrid segment about the best finger foods to start feeding a toddler, and some of the rookie mistakes they’ve made as dads when it comes to feeding their kids. Pro Football Food Weekly features a matchup between Carolina and Chicago, and the results a...
Nov 09, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Dave weighs in on the state of Korean food, and ruminates on whether giving the cuisine the “modern” treatment makes sense given its rustic and highly intuitive roots. He also weighs in on current plating practices, and his preferences when it comes to how the food shows up to the diner (including a distaste for trendy geometric shapes). "Ask Dave" sees Dave offer encouragement and practical advice (as well as some commiseration) to an entrepreneur who is facing significant challenges with secur...
Nov 06, 2023•59 min
Dave is joined by Chris as the pair ruminate further on the direction of the restaurant industry, particularly as it relates to the ability to emulate live experiences. Dave circles back on his experience with the Apple Vision Pro headset, and tries to forecast what diners will prioritize out of their restaurant experiences. If Dave could do three other jobs for one day, what would he do? The answer to the question leads to Dave uncovering a possible new calling. Chris and Dave get into a Pro Fo...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 27 min
It’s a DCS After Dark (kind of) as Dave weighs in on the current state of the restaurant industry and the way people think about eating versus dining—and why people might want to take a moment to meditate on what the difference between the two concepts means to them. Three Things sees Dave drop some wisdom for young cooks and aspiring chefs in the form of three (OK, four) things cooks should be practicing. Slice gets into a very relatable (and equally awkward) conundrum: What do you do when some...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Dave dials in from New York City to talk about the things he misses about the city he considered his home, including the experience of feeling like a stranger. Things get poignant as Dave talks about how much he misses walking through the streets and about feeling like New York wasn’t his home for the first time in more than two decades. Slice talks about an interesting conundrum that Dave is facing—being in town and not telling any of his friends about it, and the pangs of guilt (or not) that f...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Dave and Chris Ying hop on the pod “fresh” off the flight from New Orleans. The two bring up an unlikely hero in the New Orleans sandwich debate—the roast beef and cheeseburger po’boy, which Dave suggests is superior to the fried oyster and fried shrimp versions. Dave recounts his experience eating with 'Thursday Night Football' analyst, former All-Pro offensive tackle, and Louisiana native Andrew Whitworth, before getting into a quick Slice about how he appreciated the charm of operational inef...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 6 min
It’s the return of Dave After Dark: New Orleans edition as Dave records from Louisiana and gets into traveling with Chris Ying to the Big Easy. He kicks off the episode by naming the three dishes he must eat every time he visits New Orleans. Dave and Chris then recount a story of eating at a restaurant and overhearing possibly the worst type of diner on the planet; and they discuss why Dave wants to meet more of these types of people. The week’s Pro Football Food Weekly gets into the matchup bet...
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 26 min
Dave kicks off the episode by talking about his favorite seasonal ingredients—from matsutake mushrooms to chinook to ramps, and his reasons for each. This episode’s Ask Dave segment gets into the high prices Americans are facing in grocery stores, and whether Dave, as a former chef, is any more or less susceptible to them. Finally, Dave gets into a Davestradamus where he talks about the future of restaurant service, and whether automation is capable of eliminating the need for servers (and if th...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Dave kicks off the show by talking about his experience filming 'Thursday Night Football,' including his amazement at the production work that goes on behind the scenes. He then moves on to his recent 48-hour trip to London for work; he recounts his old days and explains his discomfort with the stark differences in wealth on display. The episode’s Slice covers an awkward foray into remembering to read posted boarding notices as Dave commits a travel faux pas (and Chris Ying gleefully piles on). ...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 17 min
It’s a meaty episode as Dave talks about the three things he looks for in a steak house before being joined by hunter, conservationist, and MeatEater founder Steven Rinella. Steven and Dave discuss a variety of topics, including meat consumption, demystifying the meaning of “gamy” when it comes to the taste of wild meats, and Steven’s aversion to store-bought meats. The two also talk about their hunting and fishing adventures and then get into the ethics of hunting and the public perception of t...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Dave kicks off the pod remotely from Washington, D.C., where he’s spent the week on assignment with the 'Thursday Night Football' team. The episode begins with some Majordomo updates and the three things he always buys at the Korean grocery store. Dave and Chris also break down their favorite places to get prepared foods, produce, and frozen goods among the different Asian supermarkets. Pro Football Food Weekly kicks off with a big announcement before getting into a matchup between Washington, D...
Oct 05, 2023•57 min
