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

There are many things to admire about Japan but this is the one thing I love the most and probably the only time I eat breakfast. Fish, eggs, soup, salad, veggies; all in the tiniest bites. It's a full meal, but it's so refreshing.

David Chang

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

David Chang

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

David Chang

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

David Chang

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

David Chang

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.

David Chang

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

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I was terrible at desk jobs.

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

David Chang

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.

David Chang

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.

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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.

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I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

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

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I appreciate people who are happy.

David Chang

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.

David Chang

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

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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.

David Chang

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

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

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

David Chang

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?

David Chang

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

David Chang

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.

David Chang

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

David Chang

When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn't miss a beat.

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

David Chang

Life's too short to just breeze on by.

David Chang

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

David Chang

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.

David Chang

I doubt I'd ever do television to the extent that, say, Gordon Ramsay has.

David Chang

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

David Chang

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.

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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.

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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.

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I don't like eating in restaurants.

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