Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDave’s Birthday, Over-Ordering, and a Definitive Diet-Beverage Ranking | My Opinion Is Fact
There’s no better way to celebrate Dave Chang’s forty-fifth trip around the sun than an end-of-summer MOIF, featuring such hot-button topics as: Mike…
3 years, 7 months ago
Into the Order-Ticket Matrix
Before Neo learned to read the green rain of code that made up the Matrix, before even Sherlock Holmes devised a way to describe a man based on a gla…
3 years, 7 months ago
Dave's Ramen Origin Story, Chewing Our Way Through Language Barriers, and Tips for Seeking Out the Delicious
Food may be a universal language, but how much gets lost in translation when you're eating in a place where you're not a native speaker? Dave shares …
3 years, 7 months ago
Cooking Tips, French Fry Rankings, and Restaurants That Celebrate the Absurd
On a bounteous, bento box-style multi-segment episode, Dave delves into a few recent home-cooking successes before turning to a whirlwind assessment …
3 years, 8 months ago
52 Dishes
On an episode for the ages, Dave Chang takes us through a full deck of unforgettable dishes—the ones he never stops thinking about. He covers 50-plus…
3 years, 8 months ago
Dave’s Home Alone, How Food Follows Fashion, and a Reality-Altering Moment at Noma Tokyo
Did one ramen chef’s last-minute decision to photograph the very first service at Noma Tokyo's pop-up … irreversibly change the course the restaurant…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Most Memorable Meals Dave Has Ever Had, the Power of Not Knowing, and the Lure of the List
How the heck are we supposed to figure out where to eat in 2022 anyway? On the heels of an unforeseen but absurdly good Peking duck dinner, Dave and …
3 years, 8 months ago
Astrophysics, What’s Good, and a Double-Take-Worthy Dispatch from Atlanta
After spending the first half of the show grappling with the existential questions, from the prehistory of the known universe to the future of going …
3 years, 8 months ago
Are We In or Out on In-N-Out?
In-N-Out Burger has had an almost unparalleled run as one of the most beloved operations in the western U.S., but there’s still one holdout rolling d…
3 years, 8 months ago
Chris Bianco Interview Decoded
In a brief respite between his travels, Dave Chang teaches you everything you need to know about making dashi at home, then decodes his interview wit…
3 years, 8 months ago