The Leftovers with Danielle Chang

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Danielle Chang, host of Lucky Chow on PBS. And Rachel Belle takes a very special field trip to Seattle’s Mixed Pantry, a beautifully curated specialty foods shop that exclusively sells Asian and Asian American-made products.

On last week’s episode of Your Last Meal, Danielle told Rachel she never goes anywhere without a little vial of high-quality soy sauce in her purse.

So Rachel popped into Mixed Pantry for a soy sauce tasting, a fun activity open to anyone who visits. The shop sells soy sauces from several countries, but the tasting centers around the five standard types of Japanese shoyu, owner Tak Kunimune’s specialty. You’ll learn the difference between mainstream commercial soy sauces and traditional barrel-aged ones; how Kikkoman came to be America’s go-to soy sauce; and Tak’s tips on what to cook with each one.

Then, a lightning round with Danielle Chang! She shares her favorite Chinatown snack (she's a big fan of the neighborhoods around the world), the Asian dessert she always wants for her birthday and so much more.

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0:00.0	Sure, you can have a classic airplane drink like ginger ale or tomato juice, but Alaska Airlines
0:05.7	serves a whole cart of Pacific Northwest crafted drinks like the straightaway nitro espresso
0:12.1	martini, a Fremont Brewing IPA that you can only get on Alaska Air and stash teas, just to name
0:18.4	a few, all of which you can enjoy on a nonstop flight from Seattle
0:21.9	to Tokyo starting May 12th. Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines are now partners so you can book
0:27.9	your trip now at Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com. Welcome to The Leftovers.
0:43.0	I'm Rachel Bell.
0:44.3	The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor from last week's Your Last Meal interview.
0:49.6	And today, you'll hear never-before-heard cuts from Danielle Chang, host of the PBS show Lucky Chow.
0:56.6	Lucky Chow explores Asian and Asian-American culture through the lens of food.
1:01.0	And on last week's episode of your last meal, Danielle told me she never goes anywhere without a little vial of soy sauce in her bag.
1:09.0	So today, we are taking a field trip to Mixed Pantry,
1:13.4	a fantastic specialty food shop in Seattle that only carries products made in Asia or made by Asian
1:19.5	Americans. Producer Malija and I specifically went down to Mix Pantry to do a soy sauce tasting
1:25.7	and learn how to pick out a good bottle of soy sauce. If you miss
1:29.4	last week's episode, go back and listen to that first. But if you're all caught up, let's get
1:34.2	into the leftovers with Danielle Chang. Like I mentioned, Danielle loves soy sauce the way most kids love ketchup.
1:47.0	You know, I secretly put soy sauce on spaghetti sauce in my potato o'grottin.
1:53.6	You would never know, but it tastes so good.
1:56.3	It just adds that little bit of umami.
1:58.5	Try a little bit of soy sauce.
2:00.2	I mean, it just brings that layer of depth.
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