MSG, Korean Food, and Cultural Appropriation | The Dave Chang Show

The Dave Chang Show

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Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this not-so-micro pod, chef and Momofuku founder Dave Chang is joined by his producers, Isaac Lee and Aggi Ashagre, to discuss the racist implications behind the public perception of MSG, how Korean cuisine became popular in America, and dealing with cultural appropriation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, this is fucking exciting.
0:20.9	Yeah.
0:21.9	We have Korean with the best hair I've ever seen.
0:24.9	My producer, Isaac.
0:25.9	Hey.
0:26.9	I don't even know Isaac's last name, Lee or Kim or Park.
0:30.7	It is the first one, is Lee.
0:32.4	There you go.
0:33.4	Are you recording, Oggi?
0:34.4	I am.
0:35.4	Okay.
0:36.4	Let's leave this all in.
0:37.4	Yeah, sure.
0:38.4	So this is our second micro pod, and we're going to talk about MSG.
0:42.4	But before we were talking, Isaac was telling me a quick little story.
0:46.4	Yeah.
0:47.4	So last night, I just decided to turn on Ugly Delicious on Netflix, which is your show.
0:53.1	And I watched episode seven, which is the Fried Rice episode.
0:57.4	The part at the very end, there's a two-minute sequence where you talk about how cultures
1:04.4	get underrepresented.
1:06.0	And you're making kimchi bulgumba, which is kimchi fried rice with spam in it.
1:11.1	And dude, I legit legitimately teared up.
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