David Chang

And without getting too much in the history, I feel like as delicious as Chinese food is, and it's like the most prevalent kind of food throughout the world, it seems, it's never been seen as like as cool as other European cuisines.

And quite frankly, I think that there has been a lot of sort of hidden racism in how people perceive not just Chinese food, like basically anything that's

like, different than the mainstream America, right?

And you see that with MSG or how people see, like, cheap meats in Asian restaurants, Chinese restaurants.

And a lot of that's not true, right?

They're just, you know, not even misperceptions.

They're just wrong, right?

Absolutely, and I think first and foremost about fried chicken, it's a story that, you know, a lot of people don't know about.

Everyone, I think, that eats chicken will find it to be, a fried chicken to be delicious.

Right.

Again, the world over almost.

But the story of how it was born out of

oppression and slavery for the most part, the fried chicken that we all most are commonly associated with, that's a really tough story to tell.

And if we can't talk about fried chicken, how are we supposed to talk about other things that are problematic in this world?

And going back to the popularity of fried chicken shops, there's a scene where I'm talking to my friends, really,

questioning them, the same questions I'd answer myself.

And the reality is it's like, it's a responsibility that I think today in 2018 that we should know more about and we should talk about.

And it's not easy to talk about.

I mean, I think you have to watch the episode because I think we're not trying to answer anything.

We're just trying to start the conversation about that.