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The Dave Chang Show

The Origins of Fat Washing, Top Five Fruits, and the Bar Test With Dave Arnold

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Society & Culture, Arts

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dave Arnold joins Dave Chang and Chris Ying to talk about fat washing, which leads to a conversation about the merits of originality and innovation in the culinary world. Dave Arnold deciphers fancy-sounding bartending techniques and gives his “bar test” that he uses to determine whether a bar’s cocktails are worth ordering. Plus: an all-time rant about foams on cocktails, and top five fruits including the best pears money can buy.Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Dave Arnold Producer: Victoria Valencia, Cory McConnell, Gabi Marler, and Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dave Changsha part of the Ringer podcast network presented by Major

0:08.3

Delma Media.

0:09.3

Thank you, Yolatango as always.

0:10.8

I got back like last night from Taiwan.

0:14.4

Yeah.

0:15.4

Taipei at a wonderful time there.

0:18.5

How's your sleep?

0:20.5

Not good.

0:23.5

Not great.

0:24.5

I have a lot of thoughts on Taiwan and Taipei.

0:27.0

I've heard some of them.

0:28.9

It's a lot going on.

0:30.6

But one of the things that blew me away, it was a restaurant called Paradise and the 46th

0:35.3

floor of the breeze building.

0:37.0

Breeze is a company group.

0:39.7

And it gave to me a lot of confidence that a high end buffet can work outside of a casino.

0:45.7

And we're going to break this downplay by play later, but it had everything that you

0:49.6

would want.

0:50.6

There is no fillers, no nothing.

0:54.2

It was the size of a high school track in terms of the actual track itself would be

1:02.1

the buffet floor.

1:03.1

Yeah.

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