Growing Up With Roy Choi

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Dave gives an introduction to today's guest, Chef Roy Choi, and runs through his resume. He then interviews Roy and the two old friends catch up, talk about Roy’s career path before starting Kogi, why "fusion" is a loaded word, and trying to age gracefully. Old war stories are shared, new revelations come out, and lots of laughs are had. Dave finishes the episode with an Ask Dave about salad dressing. Listen to Roy on the past DCS episode with the folks from Lasita here: https://youtu.be/sBn41BZ-Hgg?si=tkdtvzb1BAUYuAAeFollow Roy on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/chefroychoi/?hl=enBuy The Choi of Cooking here: https://thechoiofcooking.com/Buy L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/la-son-roy-choi/1114918638Check out Kogi here: https://kogibbq.com/Check out Best Friend here: https://parkmgm.mgmresorts.com/en/restaurants/best-friend.htmlCheck out The Chef Truck here: https://www.mgmresorts.com/en/restaurants/park-mgm/the-chef-truck.html?ecid=GMB_PV_RECheck out The Chef Show here: https://www.netflix.com/title/81028317Check out Le Bernardin here: https://www.le-bernardin.com/Send in your questions to [email protected] to the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedavechangshow.Subscribe to Recipe Club on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@recipeclubofficial.Submit your favorite food moments in your favorite movies to majorfoodporn.com.Join our community Discord on majordomo.com. Host: Dave Chang Guest: Roy Choi Majordomo Media Producers: Kelsey Rearden and David Meyer Spotify Producers: Felipe Guilhermino and T Cruz Editor: Stefano Sanchez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	Hey guys, we've got a great episode with Roy Choi today. There's some background noise throughout
0:34.7	and it couldn't be avoided. Wanted to say that in advance.
0:37.9	Sorry, but it's a great interview.
0:39.7	So bear with us.
0:41.0	Thanks, and let's get into the episode.
0:43.1	Hey, everybody, Dave here.
0:44.4	I got my good friend.
0:45.8	You might have heard of him.
0:47.6	Roy Choi.
0:48.9	Not only has he won a bunch of awards.
0:50.7	He's one of the great chefs in the world and two-time Time 100 nominee.
0:57.5	But we're going to get into some of his story. Maybe there are stories that you have not heard
1:03.1	about Roy, but more importantly, stay tuned to listen to why he puts orange juice in his
1:08.5	marines because it threw me for a loop.
1:12.1	So stay tuned for my interview with Roy Choi coming up.
1:18.5	Welcome to the Dave Trang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network, presented by Major Dome Media.
1:21.9	Thank you very much to your own ways.
1:23.5	Thank you for watching and listening.
1:24.8	We are going to have a lot of good stuff on video.
1:27.9	You can watch this on Spotify, on YouTube.
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