Hi! Welcome to Chinese Food Fight Club, a new podcast that grew out of the numerous dinners that Danica Lo and Andy Wang had at Legend, a Sichuan restaurant in New York City. In our inaugural episode, we tell the origin story of Chinese Food Fight Club and explain how a neighborhood restaurant turned into an of-the-moment gathering place where Danica and Andy ate with strangers and then with a wide range of friends from different backgrounds and industries. These dinners sparked lifelong friendships, spinoff dining groups and even startup businesses while helping Danica and Andy connect with their own heritage in profound ways. The impact of these unforgettable meals keeps growing over time, even though Danica and Andy now live in different cities and Legend closed in 2018.
Former Legend chef Ding Gen Wang's food is available at Chef Wang in New Hyde Park, Long Island.
About us: Chinese Food Fight Club is a multimedia platform and consultancy inspired by a dining club created by Andy Wang and Danica Lo at Legend in New York City in 2011. Our mission is to connect the Chinese-American community with other Asian communities while amplifying the stories of Asian and Asian-American creators, chefs, artists, activists, policy-makers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and small businesses.
Thank you so much for watching! Please like and subscribe for future episodes! You can listen to the Chinese Food Fight Club podcast on your favorite podcast platform—such as Apple Podcasts or Spotify—and you can find us elsewhere online on Instagram and at chinesefoodfightclub.com. You can also watch these episodes on YouTube.
Stuff we mention in this video:
• How Chinese Food Fight Club started
• Working with David Landsel at the New York Post
• Szechuan Gourmet
• Wu Liang Ye
• Margon
• Midtown Lunch
• Chowhound
• David Chang's Twitter account
• Momofuku
• Garrett Snyder on Northern Thai Food Club
• Josh Wesson
• Jeff Zalaznick of Major Food Group and Carbone
• Catch
• Eater New York
• Legend in the New York Times
• Dumpling Mafia and the Dumpling Mafia NFTs with Shirley Chung and Caryl Chinn
• LA Food Gang with Crystal Coser
• Napkin Killa
• Yu Bo
• RiceBox
• Daniel Dae Kim's activism
• The Dolar Shop
• Lao Gan Ma
• Fly By Jing
