Chrissy Teigen, David Chang and Joel Kim Booster dropped by The Hollywood Reporter's studio in Park City during the Sundance film festival, where they discussed their new food series, 'Chrissy & Dave Dine Out.' Booster talks about how relationship with food changed during filming and Teigen and Chang dish on why this show is so special. Plus, the stars share how they would want to end the year and Booster tosses the idea of an engagement!
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00:00 We walked out of a restaurant earlier and they were like...
00:02 Literally a woman turned to her friend and was like, "Well, I guess not."
00:06 And so who knows who they were waiting for, but it was not us.
00:10 No, I love when they're like the...
00:12 I hear them pass me and go, "That's Chrissy Teigen."
00:14 And the husband always be like, "Who?"
00:15 I think we all feel really grateful to be here.
00:22 It's really cool to be here for this little show that we made.
00:25 So yeah, we're all...
00:27 I mean, the fact that Hollywood Reporter or anybody wants to talk to us about anything
00:30 is pretty incredible.
00:32 For me, this is my first time being here.
00:33 I mean, you're supporting John and things, but to have my own thing going on is really
00:38 special and just people are so excited on the streets and that gives you this energy
00:43 and for me, this newfound energy that I don't get a lot because I'm usually at home with
00:47 four kids.
00:48 And so it's really nice and it's a really jolting bolt of energy and I love it.
00:55 I love it.
00:56 I do.
00:57 How have you been here?
00:58 Oh my God, we just had the most incredible Thai meal.
01:01 Very good.
01:02 It was honestly really good.
01:03 My mom's Thai, so for me, I always get certain things to understand if that restaurant is
01:09 good.
01:10 It's the papaya salad and it's the pad thai.
01:11 You ordered everything.
01:12 I ordered absolutely everything on the menu and destroyed everything on that menu and
01:16 I am feeling it and I feel great.
01:18 I really don't have a background in food.
01:23 I don't have a super developed palate.
01:25 I didn't have a huge interest in food.
01:27 I grew up really poor.
01:28 We didn't go out to eat a lot.
01:29 We had very humble meals at home and we talked a lot about that and I learned a lot through
01:35 this show.
01:36 And I think I was always really intimidated by going to nice restaurants and stuff like
01:40 that and we did go to a Michelin star restaurant for this show.
01:43 But I think the thing that I learned and that I hope a lot of people take away from the
01:47 show is how accessible good food can be in a city like LA.
01:53 It's not all Michelin star and top tier chefs.
01:56 It's a lot of places that you probably walk by every day and don't even notice.
02:00 But taking you to Providence and seeing your eyes and your palate open up to a chance.
02:06 I think it was your first tasting menu, right?
02:07 I mean, it was really special.
02:08 It was really cool to be able to see somebody experience something like that for the first
02:12 time where so much love goes into their whatever eight plates and it's really cool getting
02:17 to witness that for me.
02:19 It was also awesome just to see this part of your life that was not activated now be
02:24 part of your life, right?
02:25 Yeah.
02:26 No, yeah.
02:27 I literally, like we talk about it on the show, like I blend chicken and drink it like
02:31 a milkshake or used to.
02:33 I should say I don't really, I haven't done that in a long time.
02:36 How long has it been?
02:37 Probably since the finale.
02:38 I thought, I thought.
02:39 You achieved chick.
02:40 Like what?
02:41 I thought it was a joke.
02:42 No, it was not a joke.
02:43 It is like, I talk about it so much, it is a little trolling, but during the strike I
02:47 realized I had no hobbies anymore and so I started to cook and it was in large part due
02:53 to Dave and you know, I've been teaching myself how to do different things.
02:57 I bought a cast iron skillet, you know, like the whole, I really immersed myself in it
03:00 because I had nothing better to do.
03:02 But yeah, my relationship to food really changed dramatically after doing this show.
03:06 Do you guys remember your very first really fancy restaurant or tasting menu?
03:11 I never really went to fancy restaurants growing up and I thought there was a steakhouse growing
03:17 up near me in Northern Virginia that I actually thought was the pinnacle of fine dining.
03:24 You know, you don't know what you don't know, right?
03:26 To me that's the interesting point here is what is fine dining, right?
03:30 It's a special occasion and I think that's sort of what the show is about too.
03:34 It's your point of view and some people might think that a three Michelin star restaurant
03:39 is the best meal in the world and some people might think that La Casita Mexicana is the
03:43 best restaurant in the world.
03:44 And when I was growing up, I thought that this steakhouse was the epitome, like you
03:48 couldn't get more grand than that.
03:51 And then as you travel, you realize that there's other things, but that doesn't mean that the
03:54 steakhouse I grew up with is anything less.
03:57 What do you guys have your own favorite or most memorable?
04:00 I mean, Yalvon for me was life changing.
04:03 It was a meal that it blended, it did this Jewish fusion of like beautiful Korean American
04:12 food but with like a Jewish flair.
04:13 So they'd have a matzo ball soup but with maybe a fish broth or the rice porridge that
04:18 they served with a, it was a chicken pot pie rice porridge.
04:23 It was exactly the way that if my brain operated in that way, it's exactly the food I would
04:28 want to eat.
04:29 And it's downtown LA.
04:31 It's kind of a lot for me to get there, but it was so incredibly worth it.
04:36 I've had them cook at my house since, learning their story was so beautiful.
04:41 And they did this big remodel and seeing the ins and outs of being a chef and an owner
04:47 of a restaurant and seeing how complex that is.
04:51 And they shared that with us.
04:53 And you like some people ask us like, what do you think is the most overrated restaurant?
04:57 I'm like, I don't answer that question anymore.
04:59 Like there is so much heart and soul that goes into these restaurants.
05:02 And the ones we saw alone were just so beautiful and spectacular.
05:06 But that restaurant stands out as something that that is really unique and special and
05:12 delicious.
05:13 Have there been other travel shows or food shows, whether fiction or nonfiction that
05:18 you guys have really liked or got inspiration from?
05:21 Or like, did you have anything?
05:22 Oh, I thought the mayor was so beautiful, like that up the chaotic episode of the family,
05:26 like it reminded me of my family a little bit.
05:29 Seeing cousin work the front of house and completely have his life changed by the passion
05:36 and the power that goes into being that first person you see at a restaurant.
05:41 Seeing the growth through all the characters for me is really beautiful.
05:44 I mean, I know it's such a beloved show, but for me, when I watch it, I see it as something
05:49 so powerful and incredible and exhausting and frustrating and chaotic.
05:56 And I love it.
05:57 I think Bourdain is sort of yes, my God, it's cliche, but I think like, you talk about accessibility,
06:03 and I think like he really made food even before I did this show and wasn't really interested
06:08 in food.
06:09 He made it seem really fascinating.
06:11 I think it's true.
06:12 It's a passion.
06:13 And, you know, yeah, he didn't make it seem like this big, scary thing.
06:16 Clearly Bourdain, but I think for me and for a lot of chefs, we always think about the
06:22 PBS shows and the great chefs of Europe, the great chefs of the Southwest.
06:27 I mean, they had this whole series.
06:30 And I think for me, it's one of the reasons why we wanted to make the show too in a completely
06:35 sort of different way was just shed light on things that a diner may not know about
06:41 and a story on a dish that might resonate with somebody.
06:45 So, you know, it was a little bit of everything we wanted to put in the show.
06:48 What do you really want to do this year?
06:50 Yeah, I guess I'd like to be in cage by the end of the year.
06:56 He's not gonna watch this.
06:59 He's not online at all.
07:01 So I feel safe in saying that.
07:03 But yeah, probably that.
07:04 Mine are simple.
07:05 I have four babies now and I want to be able to have the energy to keep up with them.
07:09 I want to take care of myself so that I can wake up and not have regrets of missing out
07:15 on something they did.
07:16 It's hard to split your mind between four kids.
07:19 The physical time is something, but mentally it's a lot.
07:23 And I have a little girl that's about to walk.
07:25 I have a boy that's just a mush that does nothing.
07:28 I have another boy that's so into sports and a girl that like is just absolute perfection
07:33 in a girl form.
07:35 And to divide your time and your brain space for them is really difficult.
07:41 And so for me, I just want to be able to learn to cope and spend time on myself so that I
07:48 can take care of them.
07:51 Because it's a lot.
07:53 And whether it's the soccer games, the Girl Scouts, this, that, and dividing that time
07:59 and making sure that we're there equally for all of them.
08:04 So for me, it's a lot of personal growth and therapy and being able to be my best self
08:12 so I can be great for them.
08:13 I got two young boys and the past year was a lot more travel, a lot more work on the
08:20 road.
08:21 And I sort of got used to staying at home.
08:24 So I'd like to figure out how I could work and be home a little bit more.
08:28 Listen, you give them 100% of your time and they want 150.
08:31 You're never going to do enough.
08:32 They're going to be fine.
08:34 Everyone's going to be in therapy for one reason or another later on.
08:37 That's what I figure.
08:38 I have friends that are literally like, "I was hugged too much."
08:40 I'm like, "Oh my fucking God."
08:42 You can't win with anything.
08:44 What is a classic movie or TV show that you have pretended to see?
08:49 My friends love Succession.
08:50 I have not gotten into it just because it's provocative.
08:54 It's a lot.
08:55 It's in your face.
08:57 And I have to be mentally ready for it.
08:59 And at this moment in time, I am only capable of doing Paint My Numbers and Real Housewives.
09:04 I have reenacted the "Give My Daughter the Drugs" scene from Terms of Endearment so many
09:10 times and yet I have never seen it.
09:13 I have never seen it.
09:14 I've never seen The Office ever.
09:19 And I know, I'm friends with some of the people on the show.
09:21 I haven't even seen one episode.
09:23 I couldn't even tell you what it's about.
09:25 But anyway, The Office.
09:26 It's about an office.
09:27 It's an office.
09:28 I've never seen a single episode of The West Wing.
09:32 And I've never seen any Law and Order ever.
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