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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

David Chang

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.669.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

David Chang is an American restaurateur, author, television personality and founder of the Momofuku restaurant group. David chats with the Armchair Expert about growing up Korean American, his first time eating ramen in Japan and how he found his way into cooking. Dax talks about elitism in food and David discusses how depression led him to open Momofuku. The two talk about self-medicating, the responsibility to share one's painful experiences and the importance of asking for help. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dax Shepard. I'm joined by Monesta Mouse.

0:06.4

Oh, Monsta Mouse. Oh, Monsta Mouse. Oh, Monsta Mouse. How you doing Monsta Mouse?

0:11.6

Good. We're in my apartment again. Love it here. Yeah. When I arrived and the door was cracked to grant me entry entry

0:19.9

There was a smell hofting out into the foyer and it was the most delightful

0:25.9

inviting smell you burn a lot of nice candles in here thank you I mean this that

0:31.0

could have gone either way oh could have been a

0:33.0

doo doo doo's mouth well or just spoiled food oh sure

0:37.2

lots of things I'm glad it was the candle is it is there a specific scent river's

0:41.8

edge it's kind of a woodsy earthy oak it actually

0:48.0

was heck nically a holiday winter candles oh okay well you would never know never know. Well, today we have a really fun

0:55.0

guest. David Chang, David Chang is an American restaurateur and author and

0:59.7

television personality. He is the founder of the Momo Fuku Restaurant Group.

1:04.6

Restaurants in New York, Washington, D.C. Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Sydney, and Toronto.

1:08.6

We have eaten at several of these and have always been delighted.

1:11.2

So good.

1:12.0

He also has the TV show on Netflix, ugly, delicious,

1:15.1

breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the mind of a chef.

1:18.2

Very much enjoyed talking to David.

1:20.3

And I really, really appreciated his honesty. And you you know he's in an industry that's being hit the

1:26.6

hardest right now so I appreciate his time.

1:29.7

Side note you may hear a few audio issues at the beginning of this, but we sorted it out pretty early into the interview, so hopefully that'll clear up quickly.

1:37.0

There was some mechanical technology difficulties.

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