Breakfast Burritos, Clay Pot Rice, Filming Food, and Finding a New Angle With David Ma

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dave has director and filmmaker David Ma in the studio, who is known for his amazing work with food on-screen. Dave makes an unusual pairing of delicious dishes for David: a breakfast burrito and clay pot rice. See if he can nail them both ... or neither? The duo discusses how David Ma made the leap from advertising to filmmaking, as well as how he innovated his personal style of shooting food. They also compare notes on perfect imperfection, Japan, and craft services on film sets. Check out David Ma's work: https://davidmafilms.com/ Follow David Ma on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidwma/ Follow David Ma on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@davidwma Follow David Ma on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dma052 Check out Food Films: https://davidmafilms.com/food-films Watch 'Chef's Table': https://www.netflix.com/title/80007945 Learn more about Shima: https://jpneazy.com/restaurants/157 Learn more about Shinji's Bar: https://shinjisbar.com/ Learn more about Sugita: https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/tokyo-region/tokyo/restaurant/sugita Learn more about Tokyo Banana: https://www.tokyobanana.jp/language/en/ Watch the movie 'The Godfather': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/ Watch the movie 'The Taste of Things': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19760052/ Watch the movie 'Chef': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2883512/ Watch the movie 'Diner': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083833/ Host: Dave Chang Guest: David Ma Majordomo Media Producer: David Meyer Spotify Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Additional Crew: Jake Loskutoff, Michael Berger, Elizabeth Styles, Samya McCoy, Greg Scott Davis Sound Engineer: Kevin Cureghian Editor: Jake Loskutoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.4	McDonald's wraps, all flavour, no mess. No drips on your drip or grease on your shirt.
0:36.3	No crumbs on your keyboard or sauce on your dashboard. Just all the flavor of sweet chili chicken, barbecue and bacon chicken and new teeka chicken. Rapped up neat.
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1:01.0	We got David Ma here. He is a documentarian filmmaker. We're going to talk about finding your point of view and your perspective as he sort of shifted his career from
1:05.4	working in creative advertising. And now he has this sort of, you know, carved out this landscape that he owns himself
1:14.3	in food and capturing food. And you can watch all of his stuff on YouTube and on social media.
1:20.7	But I really wanted to talk to him about Japan. He just came back. He's got crazy jetlikes,
1:27.0	so I'm really grateful that he's here.
1:28.8	And we're going to talk about food on film, a little bit on wrestling club.
1:31.8	So stay tuned.
1:41.7	All right.
1:43.3	We are here at the studio, David Ma, joined us today as our guest,
1:49.6	and I have cooked a couple things that I've never made before. I've eaten. I've never made before.
1:58.5	One of which is a breakfast burrito. And I have no idea. Everybody has their breakfast burrito. I'm actually
2:04.0	going to give you the breakfast burrito that I liked. And you do see breakfast breto a lot on craft
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