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Welcome to the Dave Chang show part of the Ringer podcast network presented by major dome media. Thank you, you'll let thing goes always today.

We have as our guest the Oscar nominated director Isaac Chung who directed me.

You should check it out if you haven't seen it yet. We've talked about it quite a bit.

It's an incredible movie very moving on Mayan and many people that are immigrants, but the funny thing is it's not just an immigrant story.

It's an American story. And in some ways it's a marriage story. It's a lot of different things.

It's a wonderful film. Highly encourage you guys to check it out. It's out right now nominated for six Oscars,

the best director, best picture, best actor, best supporting actress. I think best original screenplay.

We talk a lot about Asian Americans in this episode Asian Americans in entertainment.

And then smart, smart guy. And I'm so happy for his success for this film and very excited to check out what Isaac does next.

But before we get in this episode, one of the things that Minari does so well is talk about Asian produce and don't want to reveal too much of the film if you haven't seen it.

But you know, when my parents came to this country, they didn't really have the same ingredients.

It's a story you hear time and time again. When you're trying to recreate recipes in another country, you can't get the right ingredients.

So you sort of have to wait till someone decides to plant these crops and grows it themselves because these are not native.

These are not things that people have planted like a moon radish, which is not the icon. It's very different.

It's an important ingredient in cream cuisine. It's just something that we didn't have tell much later.

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