Phil Wang (Tasting Menu)
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Fan favourite from the very first series of Off Menu, Phil Wang returns to the Dream Restaurant for a Tasting Menu booking. We hope he likes buttery cabbage.
Phil Wang is on tour with his new show ‘Uh Oh’. For dates and tickets go to philwang.co.uk
Follow Phil on Instagram @wangpix
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Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the off menu, tasting menu. |
| 0:16.7 | La-de-da. |
| 0:18.2 | A new concept from the off-menu industries. |
| 0:21.4 | Our minds are an endless well of ideas. |
| 0:24.7 | Yes, this is our second one. |
| 0:26.5 | In six years. |
| 0:29.3 | This is basically our way of getting in some great guests that we've had in the past. |
| 0:35.1 | Fan favourites. |
| 0:36.2 | We always worried we put too solid a line under guests and said, you've done it once. You're not coming back in. So many podcasts. Oh, third idea. Redemption Dinner Party. We did a Redemption Dinner Party. So just so you know, we've had three ideas. Yes, in six years. And one of them was during COVID, just doing it on streaming. Yes. Then we did it sort of live for Christmas. We kind of did it live, yeah. But now this is the third idea. Yes. Is that we get a menu, a dream menu from one of the guests that we've had on before. And we present it to a different guest who we've had on before. Yes. As a tasting menu. And get their thoughts on it and whether they'd like it. Yeah. And, you know, you know us. It'll spin off into some wacky chats. We probably won't stay on topic. Like that. We go all over the place in crazy ways. It's like we're on drugs. Yeah, bad ones. |
| 1:29.2 | Well, our guest this week in the tasting menu restaurants, |
| 1:32.6 | the dream restaurant. |
| 1:33.8 | Dream restaurant. |
| 1:34.9 | Is the wonderful? |
| 1:35.9 | Phil Wang. |
| 1:37.1 | Phil Wang. |
| 1:37.9 | You all know Phil Wang. |
| 1:39.3 | No, do we even need to introduce Phil Wang as a concept to people? |
| 1:42.9 | No, everyone knows he's a fantastic comedian. He's an actor as well. He's been done some great acting and stuff. Since we had him on the podcast, which was the first series, yes. He's been in Wonka. Wonka? He did a dance in Wonka. Yeah. That's like, obviously, I would, you know, that's my, that's my guy. |
| 2:01.9 | Three body problem? |
| 2:03.2 | What's one in that? |
| 2:04.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:04.8 | I haven't watched it yet. He's in it very, you know, he's got one scene on it, but it's a very good scene. I'd love to see that. It's been, he's worked on, worked with Amy Schumer and. Yes. The guy's doing well, what can I say? |
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