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The Dave Chang Show

Potato Jeon, or Which Foods Hold Value to Us

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Society & Culture, Arts

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dave makes a delicious, two-ingredient dish that he hasn't had since he was a child: potato jeon. Along the way, he makes a second unusual potato dish that his grandmother loved, talks about both of his grandmothers, and reflects on the value we place on certain foods—and how much the value is shaped by our personal experiences. Dave closes with an Ask Dave about when servers don't write down your orders. Host: Dave Chang Majordomo Media Producer: David Meyer Spotify Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Additional Crew: Jake Loskutoff, Nikola Stanjevich, Michael Delgado, Dan McCoy, Molly O'Keefe, Michael Berger Sound Engineer: Kevin Cureghian Editor: Jake Loskutoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Guys, I just bit into something that I have not tried in a long time, and I just made something

0:12.1

where the other side is burnt a little bit, and I have not made a long time, and I have never made

0:17.4

this.

0:18.6

This may look like a baked potato, but I assure you it's not.

0:23.1

Because I've added something to this where you're going to strap your head and be like,

0:26.2

what the hell is that exactly?

0:27.7

So stay tuned.

0:28.9

It's going to be a story about value.

0:30.3

It's going to be a story about war to the Korean War, Italy, Korea, and truffles.

0:37.9

And we talk about ants and all kinds of crazy shit.

0:40.1

So stay tuned.

0:49.3

All right, guys, I'm going to make potato John.

0:52.1

And if you're wondering what that means, um, actually

0:55.9

potato in Korean is called kamja. John is pancake or like a brittle pancake. And that's really not why

1:03.8

I'm doing it. I'm doing it because I want to tell a story about the potato and why it's so valuable.

1:09.2

And again, like you can't connect these things in your life to much later.

1:14.1

And there's a moment that I talk about a lot to those that know me and on this podcast.

1:19.3

When I was in Milan, probably like 2014, 2015, I was doing a conference, food conference, Identita Golosa,

1:30.2

which is a very big food conference,

1:34.4

food sort of think tank in Europe.

1:38.5

And I've just butchered the name, even though I've done it a few times.

1:43.3

And my good friend, the great Andrea Petrini, wanted to take me to dinner.

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