Hi, welcome to the Eater Uppsel, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Helen Rosner, one of your two hosts, and right over there waving at me across the room is my co-host, Greg Moribito.

On each episode of the eater-Upsel, we go into the minds of the smartest, most successful,

most interesting people in the world of food, restaurants, and culture.

And on today's episode, Greg and I talk with David Chang the force of nature behind

the Mamofuku Restaurant Empire and arguably one of the people most singularly

responsible for and imagine I'm saying each of these words with a capital letter at the front of it,

the way we eat now.

Stick around as we talk with Dave about everything from imposter syndrome

to coming to terms with the importance of Yelp,

to his reluctant embrace of his Korean heritage, to which

major restaurant critic, and this is a pretty major restaurant critic, can honestly just go

fuck himself.

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Okay, let's talk with Dave.

You're very famous.

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