What Anthony Bourdain was to the Cable TV Era, David Chang is to the Age of Netflix: the most influential, the most popular, and the most highly regarded celebrity chefs on television. Both certainly have very similar qualities: extremely cocky, quite irreverent, strongly opinionated, and respectful of—but not bound to -- strict culinary traditions, and most of all, knowledgeable and credible. Both, with their intelligent and incisive interviews styles, not unlike that of David Letterman, are the two most charming and compelling conversationalists on screen.
Recently, however, Bourdain seems to have become more of a curmudgeon and less of the Han Solo-like rogue he was during the first few seasons of “No Reservations”; his current programs seem to be too polished, too corporate.
Chang, on the other hand, as seen on “Mind of a Chef”, and currently, on the food porn show on everyone’s queue, “Ugly Delicious”, is the brash, younger adventurer, the one true heir to the king.
