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The Dave Chang Show

Snacking and Serving Sizes With Chris Ying

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It's the holidays, and we're planning on snacking to celebrate. Dave is joined by our pal Chris Ying to talk about their snack habits, discuss the lie that is serving sizes, and cook the easiest and most delicious pasta recipe. They also discuss the masterful maneuver that was rebranding frosting. After a guessing game, the two have an in-depth response to an Ask Dave about when to move on from your current restaurant job. Learn more about Laderach FrischSchoggi: https://laderach.com/us-en/frischschoggitm Learn more about Per Se: https://thomaskeller.com/perseny/ Learn more about Momofuku Noodle Bar: https://www.momofuku.com/pages/noodle-bar Learn more about serving sizes: https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-facts-label/serving-size-nutrition-facts-label Host: Dave Chang Guests: Chris Ying Majordomo Media Producer: David Meyer Majordomo Media Coordinator: Molly O’Keeffe  Spotify Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Editor: Stefano Sanchez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Stay tuned to find out why Chris and I are fat.

0:07.0

P.

0:09.0

Pha!

0:10.0

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

0:14.0

That's a good teaser.

0:15.0

It's a good teaser.

0:17.0

Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network, presented by Major Dome Media.

0:23.1

Thank you, Y'allah Tango, as always.

0:24.6

I'm at the Major Dome Media Studios.

0:26.5

We're down at the row.

0:27.8

It is holidays, and we're going to have Chris Ying joining us in a second.

0:33.1

And I'm making something.

0:34.9

Nobody here was expecting me to cook, but I promise you we're always going to cook on this podcast. I wanted to share with you something that is simple enough to cook. I'm sure I've made it on this podcast or anything that we've recorded numerous times, but it's probably the easiest dish, and I think it's the dish that most people probably say it's Cacciere Pepe to make, which is always delicious, but I think

0:54.8

that sometimes you don't have pecorino or Romano or anything that's a Parmesan cheese.

1:01.0

So I'm going to make just a garlic chili noodle with spaghetti with some fish sauce.

1:08.4

And then we're going to talk about holiday eating, which is indulging. And the

1:13.0

reason that topic came up is during a creative meeting yesterday, we were just talking about

1:19.1

frosting more or less and the marketing of frosting. And whoever came up with frosting

1:25.8

did a hell of a job of marketing the idea of what frosting

1:29.8

is because it's one of the worst, maybe the worst thing you could possibly eat.

1:34.4

And there's going to be a lot of frosting consumed this year.

1:36.9

And the reason we're bringing this up is like everyone else, watching your weight, I think

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