DCS Creative Lab: Sour Egg Drop Soup and Tteok Mandu Guk

About this episode

Dave Chang tests two new soup dishes in a creative lab session.

In this DCS Creative Lab session, Dave tests two dishes that will make their way to the counter soon for future guests. Dave further iterates on a dish he served to Chris Bianco, the Greek lemon-and-chicken-based avgolemono. Now, he's taking it to China for a version of sour egg drop soup. Dave also pivots a dish to an impromptu tteok mandu guk, a Korean rice cake and dumpling soup.How will these dishes turn out? Only one way to find out!Watch our previous episode with avgolemono served for Chris Bianco: https://open.spotify.com/episode/21y5QlRQzEEM3yliX9jaWU?si=5lr9eevGST6RB_Y0Ae2ZoA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Dave Chang

Topics covered

• cooking
• food experimentation
• soup recipes
• Korean cuisine
• Chinese cuisine

Keywords

• sour egg drop soup
• tteok mandu guk
• avgolemono
• Dave Chang
• cooking

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: avgolemono, sour egg drop soup, tteok mandu guk

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