{"id":86226,"date":"2026-09-19T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86226"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:13:02","slug":"momofukus-david-chang-takes-detours-on-a-culinary-road-trip-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86226","title":{"rendered":"Momofuku\u2019s David Chang takes detours on a culinary road trip across the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/18\/3365cf83-a4cc-4e60-a133-f23213ddc341_3b900c5a.jpg?itok=35xv_ROC&amp;v=1789719070\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In an episode of his new CNN travel series, chef David Chang is driving down the highway to Las Vegas before stopping at a transport cafe off Interstate 15.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The town is Hesperia, California, and the producers wanted Chang to try an Indian restaurant near a windscreen repair store. But Chang spots a Mexican cantina that looks promising.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He chooses to eat at both, freaking out his camera crew.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI just wanted to taste things. When I see something, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, that looks interesting. I would like to taste that,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cTo the dismay of the producers and the team, they\u2019re like, \u2018No, no. We got to go here.\u2019 I was like, \u2018You don\u2019t understand. I told you guys, that if we\u2019re going to do the show, everything\u2019s on the table.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/article\/3367989\/momofukus-david-chang-takes-detours-culinary-road-trip-across-us?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an episode of his new CNN travel series, chef David Chang is driving down the highway to Las Vegas before stopping at a transport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2781,5338,1323,27102,30288,1197,1013,308],"class_list":["post-86226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chang","tag-culinary","tag-david","tag-detours","tag-momofukus","tag-road","tag-takes","tag-trip","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}