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  • What was the first meal you ever made in

  • your life?

  • I remember that distinctly.

  • I was about 11 years old, and

  • I was making breakfast.

  • I was not wearing a shirt at the time.

  • So I'm frying eggs, and

  • basting it with hot oil, and it's splattering, and

  • it just sprayed across my whole chest.

  • So I burned both my nipples.

  • So what do you associate with cooking,

  • you associate sexual things?

  • Cooking is always sexual.

  • Look at the dining room, half your tables

  • are trying to get some play for the evening so

  • your job as a chef is to facilitate lovemaking.

  • I'm Michael Hung,

  • I"m the executive chef of Faith and

  • Flower in downtown Los Angeles.

  • Faith and Flower is kind of a mix up of,

  • you know, throwback design and

  • decor that looks to the 1920s and old Hollywood.

  • But we're pairing it with modern California rustic

  • style of cuisine.

  • I've put together a really great team of

  • hardworking, talented chefs.

  • Our front of house staff is totally generous and

  • warm and engaged with our guests and I think that

  • has really clicked with the population down here.

  • The menu is really a reflection of

  • Los Angeles.

  • It kind of hits a lot of global notes and I think

  • that kind of reflects Los Angeles because LA is

  • a city that has a lot of great ethnic good and

  • we're trying to draw from that culture.

  • Downtown over the past four or five years

  • has really started to emerge as a destination.

  • I mean, we're in the Southpark

  • area of downtown so we're kind of

  • the front-runner of restaurants in this area.

  • A lot of the food I do is a marriage

  • between my formal culinary training and

  • a lot of stuff that I ate when I was a kid.

  • So before I became a chef I was working in IT and

  • also in finance positions in New York City.

  • I was really not happy

  • with the work I was doing.

  • And one day my brother told me he

  • enrolled in culinary school.

  • You know, when he told me that,

  • it kind of like clicked in my brain that that's

  • something I always wanted to do also.

  • The day I heard that I kinda just got

  • enrolled in the school and, you know,

  • quit my job that day.

  • I've been in San Francisco for

  • nine years in coastal luxury management and,

  • and Dave Bernahl brought me down here.

  • Dave kind of gave me his vision about restaurants

  • and, and business as a whole, so

  • I think that was the major draw for me.

  • You know, we received quite a few awards for

  • best new restaurant, Thrillist had us as

  • best new restaurant in the country.

  • It's not just the kitchen that's getting accolades,

  • it's the, the bar program.

  • Mike Lay is an outstanding bartender,

  • super creative.

  • You know, I think we've worked incredibly hard

  • and I think that our hard work and, and

  • what we're trying to do, and trying to make our

  • guests happy has really kind of shown in,

  • in the rewards that we're getting.

  • Last night it was myself, David Bernahl from CLM.

  • Dave is one of the majority owners

  • of Faith & Flower.

  • Stephane Bombet who is also one of the partners

  • in the restaurant.

  • And a good chef friend of our Chris Oh,

  • who has the Seoul Sausage company and

  • numerous other restaurants so we kind of

  • split for a little bit and headed over to Torein

  • which was one of Stefan's other restaurants.

  • We're headed on a gas-tastic journey

  • tonight.

  • Yeah. Because you're cooking

  • front row later tonight.

  • Yes. And Chris Morningstar

  • is gonna to rock some front row.

  • He's probably going to rock some front row.

  • And- Potentially Bruce.

  • Bruce is gonna rock the foie gras.

  • Probably.

  • Just for context.

  • My toe hurts already.

  • Just for context they just

  • repealed the foie gras ban in California.

  • So everybody is very excited to be serving it

  • in mass quantities.

  • Well, right now we are headed to Terrine

  • restaurant right outside of Beverly Hills.

  • And the chef is a good friend of ours,

  • Chris Morningstar.

  • And they just recently opened about a month ago.

  • Oh, yeah. This is beautiful.

  • The Terrine is California styled raw.

  • It was very French influenced.

  • Hi, thank you for coming, thank you very much.

  • You missed,

  • you missed the car ride over boys that's all.

  • Did you guys open a bottle in the car?

  • We already got a bottle of Ketel One open over

  • there, what are you talking about.

  • I just order the food, foie gras, foie gras, and

  • foie gras.

  • No, we got to get this party

  • started though dude.

  • We got to get some shots at least.

  • We're going to be out for at least eight hours.

  • Eight hours?

  • Oh, I don't know if I can make until the end.

  • Fuck. You just certainly

  • celebrate a little in your belly now.

  • I know.

  • They of course, rolled out a lot of,

  • you know, tureens for us, and French pates.

  • One of the best chicken liver

  • mousses I've ever had.

  • He had a foie gras taurine,

  • he had kielbasa sausage, which was awesome.

  • Congratulations.

  • Love you guys. Thank you,

  • thanking you for joining me tonight guys.

  • Yeah, Michael.

  • This is good tasting.

  • Bone marrow, fried beef cheeks, beets, and

  • horseradish.

  • This is Kris' take on salad nicoise,

  • instead of being seared tuna it's veal tongue.

  • Right.

  • How many seats do you have out here?

  • Outside 62.

  • How many in there?

  • I think 60. It only rains what

  • 15 days a year at the most?

  • How do you say make it rain in french Duvon?

  • That's what we need to know.

  • If you translate it, it would be.

  • That sounds good, that sounds good, no,

  • that sounds good.

  • We're gonna tonight.

  • It's very, it's a very African expression.

  • Yes it is.

  • No, that would be a weird thing to say.

  • I don't know. It's starting

  • to catch already.

  • Gentlemen, shall we continue?

  • So, your entrees for the evening.

  • Sadie's best fish and

  • chips with a local house-made tartar sauce.

  • A salad flam base with local trickery.

  • You have the agnolotti with a truffled rice

  • filling, truffle and hazelnuts, and

  • wood mushrooms.

  • We also have the rossini which is super classical

  • dish with petite filet mignon, on top,

  • spinach and just a classic bordelaise sauce.

  • You know that's really the strength of Terrine

  • is that you have all these great classical

  • dishes that are just executed, you know, to,

  • to perfection.

  • From there, we went to Union Pasadena to go see

  • Bruce Common who's an awesome chef.

  • For most of us, it's our first time, so

  • we are very excited.

  • Are we close?

  • How far are we?

  • We're maybe 35 miles.

  • Sorry Bruce.

  • How are you?

  • Sorry we're late.

  • It's okay.

  • How's your juice cleanse going?

  • I think it's ending today.

  • Bruce Kalman, he is doing regional Italian cuisine.

  • He is really pushing the envelope of what

  • good food is here in Los Angeles.

  • I respect him highly as a chef and

  • I respect his workmanship.

  • So it made sense for

  • us to go to Union last night.

  • I'm excited.

  • It's my first time here.

  • I'm the worst person to ask for recommendations

  • because I'm gonna recommend everything.

  • I'm gonna start sending out a couple things while

  • you guys are trying to figure out what to eat.

  • Bruce asked us if

  • we wanted him to take it easy on us.

  • And we kind of made the mistake of saying no.

  • You know, give it to us all.

  • And he literally gave it to us all.

  • This is a house made sriracha.

  • Yeah. Boris,

  • I'm gonna take so much pictures tonight.

  • So this is the seared foie gras duck sausage.

  • Then we have a foie tureen.

  • Oh.

  • And this a duck liver mousse with pickled

  • huckleberries.

  • David all brought some great wines.

  • He brought vintage champagne as well

  • as a couple white burgundy's.

  • We enjoyed those over there.

  • You have the munchies yet or what?

  • You know his pastas were amazing.

  • I mean he does all handmade pastas,

  • really clean flavors so that was wonderful.

  • Let me take multi pictures.

  • That's so good though.

  • Let's get after it, dude.

  • Fucking meatballs, dude.

  • Best fucking thing tonight.

  • Bruce gets his own grits milled locally just

  • outside of town in Pasadena which is really

  • awesome.

  • So, you know, to, to get that quality of product.

  • And, he paired that up with some wild mushrooms

  • and a Padron Jimenez sherry vinegar.

  • And, that was you know, super delicious.

  • The polenta fresh-tasting.

  • Still tasted of corn.

  • That's insane.

  • That's insane.

  • Potato, leek tortelli

  • with a homemade walnut pesto.

  • Those are our squid ink garganelli,

  • lobster, braised fennel and black truffle butter.

  • Oh my god.

  • This is the cavatelli with wild boar sausage,

  • roasted broccoli and beans.

  • Here's our money maker.

  • Oh, oh.

  • Spaghetti alla chitarra, san marzano tomato,

  • calabrian chili, a little garlic,

  • parmigiano reggiano, basil.

  • We had five pastas.

  • We had about four appetizers.

  • We had three,

  • like, really large share format entrees and

  • then like three or four side dishes as well.

  • This is braised collard greens with black barley.

  • Shit I think he's bringing us more food.

  • Oh my gosh.

  • This is basically the belly,

  • the belly wrapped around the.

  • How do you dial 911?

  • Because I don't think I can eat anything anymore.

  • That's the pork shank.

  • Oh my God.

  • That's the ten hour braised short rib.

  • Damn. And

  • it's stuffed with the.

  • Cuz you didn't get enough food yet, so.

  • I was really hoping it would be a small plate.

  • Oh my God, I'm so fucking full.

  • It's a lot of food.

  • I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna take a little taste

  • of everything.

  • I fell out of consciousness for

  • a second.

  • I just woke up from my food coma.

  • I think there was something along the lines

  • of 15 courses he fed us last night so,

  • that was delicious although

  • a little bit painful as well.

  • I think we were able to pack most of it down.

  • You guys crushed it for not being hungry.

  • Why don't you sell dried pasta from Barilla?

  • You don't like Barilla? Shut the fuck up.

  • Why don't you shut the fuck up?

  • How about that?

  • Last night was probably the most I might have

  • eaten, maybe the most I've ever eaten in my

  • whole life.

  • It was some danger of belts busting.

  • I'm feeling great discomfort right now.

  • You know I am trying to think about not thinking

  • about it but it still hurts.

  • I am so full.

  • Next time when someone says,

  • should I go easy on you?

  • You say, no you say no every single time.

  • You can't say yes.

  • From Union we went to Pour Vous

  • which is in Hollywood.

  • And Pour Vous is a cocktail lounge,

  • there was quite a few people kind of dancing to

  • this New Orleans jazz when we were there.

  • This is good, we are really,

  • we're gonna really love this.

  • Oh I know, I know.

  • This is what white people do for fun.

  • We bought a three liter bottle of champagne which

  • we kind of shared with everybody in the bar so

  • and that was a cool.

  • You know, kind of mellow but also exciting and

  • an entertaining experience.

  • Thank you.

  • We're the California people and have a great,

  • great night.

  • Have a great weekend.

  • From Pour Vous we returned to Faith and

  • Flower.

  • Stephan actually was so

  • full in the prospect of coming back to Faith and

  • Flower and eating any more I think was a little

  • bit daunting for him.

  • So he had to press out.

  • Man down.

  • Rally right now.

  • And.

  • Hey, are you really gonna cook right now?

  • Yeah.

  • Foie gras, dude. Aren't you hungry?

  • We're gonna have we're gonna have some foie.

  • We're gonna have some pizza.

  • Luckily, you know, a bunch of my kitchen staff

  • had kinda stuck around.

  • You guys wanna help me out?

  • Yeah.

  • All right.

  • We're gonna do some foie with roasted mushrooms,

  • mustard seed bread and a sherry shallot jus.

  • One of the other items we did was a burrata

  • pizza and so that's a pizza

  • with a tomato cream sauce San Marzano tomatoes.

  • And then a fresh burrata that's made here in LA.

  • We did fried rice and eggs.

  • Fried rice had Chinese sausage,

  • pickled mustard greens, little bit of sesame.

  • Top that with some fried eggs,

  • chili sauce that we make here in-house.

  • Pot stickers ready.

  • So what-

  • All right.

  • Do you want us to sit there, or? Yeah, I mean.

  • However you want then we'll just

  • start bringing food out.

  • Oh, that's a whole load of foie gras

  • boys and girls.

  • Yeah. I'm going to eat

  • the shit out of that.

  • Mouth real close. Get all the way in.

  • I wanna drink way more wine and just eat that.

  • That's what I want.

  • Right?

  • One of the great things about all

  • of the restaurants that we've visited is they're

  • all new restaurants that are, are setting the tone

  • for, you know, what the Los Angeles food scene is

  • going to be in the next few years.

  • For me that's cool because you get to kind

  • of preview what the future is and, and

  • the future is really exciting.

  • Came to Los Angeles not really knowing too many

  • people here, so it can be difficult to make friends

  • especially, you know, if you're in the restaurant

  • industry and especially when you're trying

  • to open a restaurant.

  • You just don't have a lot of free time.

  • So, you know, I've had that, that luck and

  • that opportunity to meet these, these guys.

  • Fist bump.

  • Pretty, pretty nice day.

  • Yeah, you guys are great.

  • Hold on, let me take all the girls in the yard.

  • My crew's takes.

  • My crew's takes all the girls to the yard.

  • And damn right.

  • Damn right.

  • Oh, shit.

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鵝肝,鵝肝,以及更多的鵝肝。廚師在洛杉磯與Faith & Flower共度的大廚之夜 (Foie Gras, Foie Gras, & More Foie Gras: Chef's Night Out in LA with Faith & Flower)

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