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Starting with a 13-seat noodle bar in the East Village in 2004, Chang built Momofuku into a restaurant-to-retail empire spanning James Beard-winning kitchens, a Netflix series, and a nationally distributed chili crunch line.
David Chang founded Momofuku, opening the original Noodle Bar in New York's East Village in 2004 and expanding into multiple acclaimed restaurants, consumer products, and food media.
He won a James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef and created the Netflix series Ugly Delicious. Momofuku's chili crunch and noodle line are sold in major retailers nationwide, and his memoir Eat a Peach was a bestseller.
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