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The Dave Chang Show

Dave’s Trip to Mexico City, Theoretical Dinner Party, and Culinary Arbitrage

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Dave recounts all the amazing things he ate in Mexico City, including one of the best last courses he’s ever eaten at Pujol and the timeless excellence of Contramar. Then Dave and Chris introduce a couple of new segments, "Theoretical Dinner Party," in which they draft aging rock stars to eat dinner with, and "Culinary Arbitrage," in which they dissect the value of live shellfish and New York City sushi. Other topics include white lying to your friends, the importance of colonoscopies, ice baths in the morning, the benefits of routine, and spot prawns vs. lobster. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Producers: Sasha Ashall and Gabi Marler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

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0:17.6

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0:26.0

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0:41.2

Thank you for the support. We've been developing those products for quite some time and they're delicious and I eat them all the time. Really? Thank you for the support. It is people buying it.

0:54.8

I'm buying it. I'm out there. If you haven't made that chili crunch carbonara that I posted on social media like a month or two ago, it really is delicious.

1:05.6

I mean, I think it's one of the, it is like shockingly delicious. It's totally outrageous and I've made it.

1:12.2

And listen, am I shamelessly plugging yes? But is it worth it? Yes. Anyway, let's get on to the show.

1:35.6

Welcome to the day. I'm James Chopin of the Ring of Podcast Network.

1:37.4

Presented by me to do a media. Thank you, Yolatango as always. So we are recording in our offices at the row.

1:44.0

We're very close to a studio being finished. We are in Chris Ying's office. We were sort of sharing the office, but I don't, I got booted out.

1:53.0

And now it looks like an insane, it sounds pretty crazy.

1:58.0

There's still, there's still like a plastic packaging on the ceiling from when you first came in here in Soundproof, didn't have a fly.

2:05.4

It's just literal trash from any day bowls and styrofoam. But yeah, it's an, it's an asylum.

2:14.6

We are always evolving this podcast and it's going to be I think different when we move to the studio. Can we talk about that?

2:25.4

We'll talk generally about what your hope is, what our hope is for those changes.

2:30.2

I'd like us to do this as frequently as possible with his guest with guests. And also we'll have a cooking component.

2:37.8

And where we may be going live, and there'll be a video component as well. These are things that we're inching closer to.

2:48.1

So if we've been sort of talking aimlessly, it's mainly because we've been super busy and trying to like not talk about everything that we're doing too much until we're ready.

2:59.2

And we're getting a little bit closer. So we're just talking a little bit more about it. If that makes any sense.

3:04.0

Yeah, we're also practicing. We're, we're, we're trying things out and we see what you all are responding to.

3:09.6

So you can continue to let us know in the discord what you like, what you don't like.

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