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" Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult. "

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" The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work. "

David Chang

Good

Why

Cooking

" Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook. "

" I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French. "

" I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino. "

" Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world. "

David Chang

Stars

Fashion

" Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo. "

" People are getting famous now for serving food out of a truck, or for, well, pork buns. I don't know if I'm really pleased to be a part of that. I'm somewhat terrified of what the future holds, especially in America. "

" I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways. "

" I was terrible at desk jobs. "

" I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always. "

" Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it. "

" People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan. "

" I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it. "

" As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long. "

" My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef. "

" I learned so much more prepping vegetables than I ever did in cooking school. "

David Chang

School

Cooking

" There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker. "

" Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful. "

" Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is important, too. "

" Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics. "

" Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore? "

" Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different. "

David Chang

Inspiration

" I'm always criticizing and only see the mistakes. "

" People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation. "

" 'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food. "

" Running a business anywhere isn't easy. "

" If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is. "

" The Momofuku Culinary Lab started as a space where we could focus on creating and innovating. I didn't want us to worry about working on projects in a restaurant; there are just too many distractions in service and running a kitchen to be able to focus on creating your dishes. "

" The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. "

" Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy. "