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" 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. "

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Meaning

Amazing

" I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook. "

" If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on. "

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

" 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. "

" Life's too short to just breeze on by. "

" Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for. "

David Chang

Food

You

" Running a business anywhere isn't easy. "

" I was terrible at desk jobs. "

" 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. "

" I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better. "

" One of the benefits to ordering food in New York is that you can get food 24/7. "

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

" 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. "

" I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience. "

" I love to eat sushi, and, you know, those flavors and wasabi and really eating spoonfuls of it... I would just mix it and put it on everything, literally. "

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

" New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose. "

David Chang

World

New

" I appreciate people who are happy. "

" I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away. "

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

David Chang

School

Cooking

" 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 want to make simple food new. "

" Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything. "

" I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus. "

" Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. You'll find 'natural flavor' or 'artificial flavor' in just about every list of ingredients. The similarities between these two broad categories are far more significant than the differences. "