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" To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world. "

David Chang

You

Always

Eat

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Inspiration

" If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York. "

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

David Chang

Stars

Fashion

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

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

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

David Chang

School

Cooking

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

" I think being Shaquille O'Neal would be the most amazing thing. There's nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he's done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything. "

" I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves. "

" I don't like eating in restaurants. "

David Chang

Restaurants

Eating

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

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

" Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though. "

" Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself as a cook. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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 really don't care for the proper chef coat. "

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

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

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

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

" I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified. "

" 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. "

" I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good? "

" I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself. "