Danielle Chang: Hot Pot
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
PBS's "Lucky Chow" host, Danielle Chang, has been using food as a tool to promote diversity since her family immigrated from Taiwan to Texas when she was 5, and she eventually turned it into a career!
Danielle tells host Rachel Belle which condiment she always keeps in her bag and Your Last Meal listeners call in to confess what flavor enhancers they have sneaked into restaurants, movie theaters and doughnut shops over the years.
First Beyoncé sang about having hot sauce in her bag, then Hillary Clinton talked about her spicy stash on the campaign trail. But Emmy-nominated journalist Myra Flynn says the habit of toting hot sauce started out of necessity with enslaved Americans.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:23.7 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, |
| 0:27.0 | and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:33.0 | Today on the program, Danielle Chang. |
| 0:36.2 | Danielle hosts the PBS Emmy-nominated series Lucky Chow, |
| 0:40.3 | where she shares stories of Asian culture through the lens of food. The new season, |
| 0:45.4 | season seven, premieres May 1st, and Lucky Chow has always been filmed in the States. But this |
| 0:51.0 | season is shot entirely in Taiwan, which is where Danielle was born and raised for the first five years of her life. |
| 0:58.0 | When I think of somebody carrying a condiment around in their bag, I think of Beyonce, who's saying about stowing hot sauce in her bag back in 2016. |
| 1:06.2 | But Danielle travels with a different condiment. |
| 1:09.5 | I stuck in my little packages of soy sauce in my purse that I bring everywhere with me. |
| 1:15.5 | Listeners share what condiments they sneak into restaurants and will learn the history of |
| 1:20.0 | why African Americans, Black Americans, started carrying hot sauce in their bags. |
| 1:25.0 | That's all coming up later in the show. |
| 1:26.9 | But first, my conversation with Danielle Chang. |
| 1:34.4 | Danielle moved from Taiwan to Texas with her family in the 1970s, when she was five years old |
| 1:40.1 | and didn't speak a word of English. |
| 1:42.9 | And I got made fun of a lot. I was being made fun of on the |
| 1:46.5 | school bus. People were like, Qing, Chang, Qing chinging me every day back and forth. And the |
| 1:52.9 | funny thing is, that's actually my mom's name, Ching Chang. So I just looked at them and was |
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