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The Dave Chang Show

“Ethnic” Food and Diversifying Groceries, With Larry Liu

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dave and Chris discuss the delineation of certain foods as “ethnic” and the scarcity of certain ingredients in the United States (0:23) before they bring in Weee! founder and CEO Larry Liu to hear what his company is doing to help with that (35:36). Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Larry Liu Producer: Isaac Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:06.8

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0:23.3

Welcome to the Dave Chang show, part of the Ringer podcast network presented by Major Domo Media.

0:28.4

Thank you Yolat Tango as always. Please check them out on tour as well as every comedian and artist.

0:36.4

This summer and fall, go get vaccinated. Please don't be a dumbass.

0:42.0

Don't be like Colby's Lee, you dummy. And get vaccinated.

0:47.4

Go out, see the world, do it safely. I'm joined with Chris Yang, who I am seeing over Zoom,

0:54.3

even though I miss you already in person. And we have an interview with Larry Liu, he is the

1:02.5

CEO founder of Weat. And the star is aligned for us to have a quick conversation with him about

1:08.3

his company because this is something I wanted to talk about on this podcast, regardless,

1:14.7

which is shopping patterns, getting ingredients that you, regardless of where you from in the

1:22.0

world, when you immigrate to a country and you can't quite get it and have we really made progress

1:28.7

or is it just there and still unorganized? And yeah, I've ran it enough about the ethnic

1:34.9

food aisle and blah, blah, blah. That's that's sort of part of this. But in general, I just want to

1:39.0

have a conversation about getting ingredients, how you get it, where you get it, and sort of the

1:44.0

state of play because you know, a few podcasts ago, I talked about what would it be like if I was in

1:49.9

a middle America and I had a drive through Bony Shop. If that can't happen and not in like Orange

1:58.1

County or the SGV, but in a place that is not historically known to have openness to Asian foods,

2:07.3

I was like, that would be an amazing thing where food isn't just about being Asian and I hate

2:14.1

the name ethnic. What do you think about the word ethnic Chris, right? The ethnic aisle.

2:21.0

It's a complete misnomer because if there's ethnic food, then that means logically speaking,

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