The Evolution of the Las Vegas Food Scene, With Joe House, Shaun King, and Matt Rudofker | The Dave Chang Show (Ep. 13)

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Chef and Momofuku founder Dave Chang sits down with ‘House of Carbs’ host Joe House, Momofuku Las Vegas executive chef Shaun King, and Momofuku global director of culinary operations Matt Rudofker to discuss how Las Vegas became a culinary destination (10:55), building a healthy staff culture (24:19), and the unique challenges of running a restaurant in the desert (41:25). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Day Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network presented by Major
0:16.8	Domo Media.
0:18.1	Today we have a podcast that we recorded a couple of weeks ago.
0:22.6	You might have heard a few minutes on the House of Carbs Podcasts with Joe House.
0:27.6	We were in Las Vegas.
0:29.9	The Ringer had like a big shindig at Caesars with a live podcast.
0:35.2	I was lucky enough to participate.
0:37.8	And how do I say?
0:39.6	It got things got a little crazy the night before.
0:41.9	We were there for a couple of days.
0:43.5	And I had the bright idea after a night of gambling and drinking with Joe House, Bill
0:51.0	Simmons, Cousin South for Cousin South's 50th party.
0:54.5	We had a huge dinner at Momofuku Las Vegas in the cause of Paulton.
0:59.0	We just ate incredible amount of food.
1:01.4	The chef there, Sean King, really dialed in an extraordinary dinner.
1:05.5	And we were incredibly lucky.
1:07.1	And I haven't eaten there like that ever.
1:09.4	So that was the first time for me.
1:11.9	And Matt Rudolfker, who is the Momofuku corporate chef, was in town helping out, I don't
1:17.6	know, this corporate chef, director of culinary development.
1:19.4	I'm not even quite sure these days.
1:21.1	We have so many titles of people.
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