Momofuku Chef David Chang's 'Ugly Delicious' Food

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🗓️ 13 March 2018

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Fried butterball potatoes. Tapioca lo mein. Crispy pork belly. Those are just a few of the items on the menu at majordōmo, the new restaurant from chef David Chang of Momofuku fame. Sam met up with David at majordōmo in Los Angeles, where they talked food, racial identity, and his new Netflix show, 'Ugly Delicious.' Email the show at [email protected] or tweet @NPRItsBeenaMin with feels.

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0:06.3	You're fake and huge cultural issues. This is probably gonna get somebody killed so tune in for Invisibilia season four
0:23.4	Look at all that meat. What is that?
0:26.0	Pork. I had a lot of pork. Hey y'all from NPR. I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute.
0:31.6	Pork shoulders. What's its season with? Just salt and pepper. Right now you're listening to a food tour.
0:37.5	Well a kitchen tour actually. We got some eggs. David Chang is showing me the kitchen at his new
0:42.0	LA restaurant. It's called Major Doma. I don't even know what's cooking there right now.
0:46.2	It is about noon at the restaurant and so this is a time of day where the kitchen staff is getting
0:50.8	all the stuff ready for dinner and there's just so much food that they're prepping and all of it
0:55.7	is very typical David Chang. These competing Asian influences. These really big intense bowl
1:02.1	flavors. It's stuff like black cod with noodles, chili. The station here is essentially pasta station
1:09.1	noodle. Stuff like Santa Barbara rock crab. The main thing is the rock crab dish which is cured in
1:15.2	ginger and spices. We cure it in the spices sauce. And there's this emphasis on freshness in
1:20.6	the entire restaurant. On making homemade whatever you can homemade. This is the busiest station.
1:26.9	The griddle. We're cooking the bings, the bread griddle to order. At one point David walks me to the
1:32.7	walk and veggie freezer at the restaurant. What you can see is packed. Yeah yeah. We're
1:37.1	redundant to say how good California produce is but it's good. It's unbelievable. This is David's
1:43.0	first restaurant in LA. It opened in January of this year. But he is most well known for his
1:49.2	mama Fuku restaurants. Those are in New York and Sydney and Toronto and Vegas and Washington DC.
1:56.1	It's a lot. What are the potatoes? Another tail? That's that's family meal. What do you mean?
2:00.5	Most important meal of the day for me is when you you're feeding your staff before the restaurant opens.
2:05.9	Yeah. What's it gonna be? That looks like we're making breakfast. That's griddle potatoes.
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