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Ugly Delicious

★ 7.7 4K votes 2018–2020 2 seasons · 12 episodes Ended Netflix
Food & cookingCooking and food culture at the center.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10
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About

"Food as a lens on identity and history"

Chef David Chang travels the world with friends, fellow cooks, and comedians to dig into a single dish per episode, tacos, fried rice, pizza, barbecue, tracing how immigration, class, and family history shaped what ends up on our plates. It's less a tasting show than a hangout, loud, argumentative, and personal, mixing casual restaurant visits with real cultural and political history. The pace is relaxed and conversational rather than slick, carried by Chang's restless curiosity and willingness to challenge food snobbery, authenticity myths, and his own assumptions at the table.

Watch it for

the way each dish becomes a doorway into immigration, class, and cultural memory.

Maybe skip if

you want polished travelogue food porn instead of loose, opinionated dinner-table debate.

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All Seasons

Season 12018
7.71K8
Season 22020
7.23284

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Cast

David Chang Self
Peter Meehan Self
Aziz Ansari Self
René Redzepi Self
Walter Green Self
David Simon Self
David Choe Self
Alan Yang Self
Jonathan Gold Self
Fuchsia Dunlop Self

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