The Dave Chang Show

Dave, Chris, and Noelle return for the big reveal of their deeply researched, still-buyable tripartite gift guide, covering all the essentials for the ones you love and the ones you maybe don't love so much. Phoning it in? We've got you. Shooting for thoughtful but not oppressively generous? We've got you there, too. Going for a once-in-a-decade, life-altering display of affection? This is the episode for you!Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris YingGuest: Noelle CornelioAssociate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

886 chef and 'The Next Thing You Eat' guest Eric Sze joins Dave and Chris for a scalding plunge into what may be Dave's favorite cooking method out there today: the bubbling cauldron of communal deliciousness known as hot pot. Beneath the surface, though, colossal schisms are revealed—sauce or no sauce? Fish ball or no fish ball? Fancy wagyu or humble, pre-sliced eye of round? Does fondue count as hot pot?? Our panel battles it out until the last bit of butane's been put through the burner.Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris YingGuest: Eric SzeAssociate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the leftover stuffing all eaten at last, and Dave-dismaying Mariah Carey songs already in the air, we turn our minds toward Christmastime. Discussed: wearing Dickensian costumes to the House of Prime Rib, the Dave Chang Grinchification Tracker, anti-fruitcake diatribes, stollen vs. panettone vs. buche de Noel, Garrett Popcorn flavors tearing our hosts apart, making your kitchen look like a Jamba Juice, the Christmas gift infinity gauntlet, and our last-minute multitier frenemy-to-forever-person gift guide.Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris YingGuest: Noelle CornelioAssociate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our first guest ever, the Podfather himself, returns to recall the freewheeling days when this podcast was just a glimmer in Dave’s eye. Also considered: Stephen A. Smith, what makes a great show, remembering Tom Hanks movies vs. remembering notable life events, the perfectly sized dinner table, throwing a chain saw into a hot tub, Jon Favreau’s ‘Dinner for Five,’ Ooni ovens vs. French bread pizzas, the potential death of season tickets, what a 22-year-old Dave Chang would do in 2021, wearing belts again, and burning down your entire neighborhood with the smoker Jimmy Kimmel gave you.Host: Dave ChangGuest: Bill SimmonsAssociate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The stars are out, and Dave and Chris have assembled for another late-night fever dream of a Q&A. Discussed: sleep regression, Cajun honey ham, crossing the marinated meat rubicon, Thanksgiving-flavored chips, H Mart oxtail prices, a disastrous scallops purchase, eating breakfast sausage on the drive home, Hugo climbing the pantry like a cat burglar, Sichuan celery salad, bringing your own salt to restaurants, and a late-breaking report from the guy who inspired last month's flawless Dave Chang delivery day.Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris YingAssociate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The thrilling, shocking conclusion has arrived—Round 4 of the quest to discover the Autumnal American Pie of the Year. But before revealing our winner, we discuss Dave's latest Thanksgiving gambit, a forgotten mother sauce, 14-hour hot-sauce fevers, second-degree cheese-fry burns on date night, flat-earther pie preferences, the limits of the sweet-salty paradigm, making every month pie month, the most beautiful pie Chris has ever seen, the one pie Dave's family ate in its entirety, sugar-acid key-lime alchemy, a buttermilk-raspberry trip beyond the pie horizon, cannoli vampirism, and Dave finally praising the Bay Area.Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris YingAssociate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At last, we answer America's burning question: Who won the Pronunciation Bee? And then: a glimpse into Dave's vast Basque Rolodex, a prophecy fulfilled, buying a 14-pound serrano ham from Costco, the eternally unsolved croissant conundrum, dubious expat accents, a supercomputer-fueled rumination on holiday homecomings, Proustian trauma, Christmas in the Philippines, Chris's skin care routine, winning Friendsgiving with a gravy thermos, and Antarctic ice-sampling missions into the depths of the parental fridge.Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris YingGuest: Noelle CornelioAssociate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

POIF Part 3 is here, and the gang is in very deep. After a brief check-in with KCRW's pie-contest maven, Evan Kleiman (5:20), we get into our tasters' pie-zonked responses to the mail-order barrage (11:05). Featuring discussion of Dave's sole pie-making attempt, a journey beyond the 'Interstellar'-inspired pie horizon, mincemeat disappointment, eating key lime pie in South Beach, #pielife vs. #vanlife, and Oakland's great Lois the Pie Queen.Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris YingGuest: Noelle Cornelio and Evan KleimanAssociate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dave and Chris welcome back chef Diep Tran to celebrate the treasured elixir that is Red Boat Fish Sauce before embarking on a whirlwind survey of their all-time favorite potluck play—Vietnamese summer rolls. Topics covered: the forbidden fruit of the kitchen, making mortadella in the garage with a buffalo chopper, first-press fish sauce, respect vs. fear on the way to embracing the funk, surf and turf vs. pork and shrimp, honey mustard vs. sweet and sour, the holy grail of no-dip rice paper, ordering head cheese over Instagram, eating alfalfa sprouts on the commune, and the Gene Hackman of flavors.Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris YingGuest: Diep TranAssociate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dave, Chris, and Noelle briefly say some nice things about Isaac on his last episode as the producer of this show (0:00) before diving back into the world of crusty circles (15:45).Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris YingGuest: Noelle CornelioProducer: Isaac Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices