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Lex Fridman
Host, Lex Fridman Podcast; Research Scientist, MIT, Lex Fridman Podcast

Eating everything at a Taiwanese Night Market with Jensen Huang | Lex Fridman

📅 Oct 14, 2026 Lex Clips 15 MIN 369 VIEWS 148 SEGMENTS · 4 SPEAKERS
Lex Fridman full video:    • Visiting Taiwan w/ Jensen Huang | Lex Fridman   Thank you for watching ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/cv100... See below for guest links, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. CONTACT LEX: Feedback - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama Hiring - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring Other - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact EPISODE LINKS: My podcast with Jensen:    • Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trill...

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  1. 5:42Somehow this is going to taste good. You're saying?
Tour Guide 0:03 ↗
Yeah. What are you doing with Lex? Hey Mark, come on. Let's go.
Mark 0:12 ↗
Not even rain can stop Jensen. I want to go. I'm like, come on, we'll just go wander around.
Lex was— Oh, yeah. It was nuts. Overwhelmed. It was nuts.
Tour Guide 0:32 ↗
Morris, the founder of TSMC. Johnson.
Have you guys been to this place? No. This is, you know, generally believed to be the best.
Mark 0:43 ↗
So he just wanted to make it clear to me that I've never had this.
Tour Guide 0:51 ↗
Tell me that chicken is not so tender. This is essential.
Lex Fridman 0:56 ↗
Okay, okay. I'm no longer just tasting. This is my—
Mark 1:03 ↗
Still tasting.
Incredible, with almost like a barbecue smoky sauce. They know what they're doing with the omelette. Like, the way the eggs are used in the various dishes is amazing.
Tour Guide 1:24 ↗
In Southeast Asia, there's egg in everything. The cheapest source of protein. They add egg to everything. Egg to pancake.
Mark 1:34 ↗
Delicious. Yum.
I heard you make amazing fried rice.
Lex Fridman 1:37 ↗
I do.
Mark 1:38 ↗
Watch videos on AI and fried rice.
Lex Fridman 1:43 ↗
It's absolutely true. This whole thing is working and I hear the AI. I have fried rice. I got geopolitics and dogs and panda bears. So now otter.
I watch the geopolitics and then I got to go directly to pandas and otter just to recover.
Yeah.
Mark 2:09 ↗
Oh, this is—sorry. I think that's a statement of like, you need help, my friend.
Poor soul. You don't have something like that. I grew up on that. My mom made this like practically every week.
Co-Panelist 2:34 ↗
Yeah.
Tour Guide 2:35 ↗
How good is that?
Mark 2:38 ↗
Amazing. It's got to be fresh ginger. It's called fresh ginger, right? Cleanser.
Tour Guide 2:50 ↗
Asian food is all about the—
Co-Panelist 2:53 ↗
The women were going, 'legs, legs, legs.'
Mark 2:57 ↗
Basically the world's rush.
First of all, it worked well. There's no—no.
Tour Guide 3:04 ↗
Yeah. You say no, everything's coming. And you say three, then it's four.
Mark 3:11 ↗
Yeah. If we ate everything, would they feel bad? They're going to have to bring more stuff.
It's not a winnable game.
Tour Guide 3:18 ↗
No. Depending on culture. If you don't eat everything, it's rude.
And in some cultures, if you eat everything, it's rude. So you're either competing for their generosity or competing for your appreciation for their food. And they're both important, but depending on culture, one's more important than the other. So in this culture, their generosity is more important than your appreciation for food.
Lex Fridman 3:46 ↗
That's a kind of optimization problem.
Tour Guide 3:48 ↗
Yeah. So you just got to know which country you're in.
Mark 3:51 ↗
You got to figure out the objective function, country on country.
Tour Guide 3:55 ↗
We got to figure out which country. I bet in France you got to eat everything. So we'd be here all night.
Mark 4:00 ↗
That's why the dinners are three hours.
Tour Guide 4:01 ↗
Yeah. We got to pound it down. Even with the rain.
You still have people. We don't want to lose the white guy.
Lex Fridman 4:25 ↗
I think I'm famous for being the white guy here.
Mark 4:28 ↗
Nobody is loving Taiwan more than Lex.
Lex Fridman 4:32 ↗
Yeah, exactly. I'm in love.
Tour Guide 4:34 ↗
I love Lex, too. Come on, Lex.
Mark 4:36 ↗
Okay, let's go. Here we go. There we go.
Lex Fridman 4:54 ↗
What are we looking at here?
Tour Guide 4:55 ↗
Imagine a corn dog, but Taiwanese style. It's all about the eggs.
Mark 4:59 ↗
Look at this. It's a corn dog essentially.
Tour Guide 5:03 ↗
It's a universal concept. You got a hot dog. You got a corn dog.
Mark 5:10 ↗
You can't AI generate this.
Nice.
Lex Fridman 5:28 ↗
Okay, this looks incredible.
Tour Guide 5:31 ↗
This makes no sense. We're going to put ice cream. Yeah, that's rice paper and cilantro.
Lex Fridman 5:40 ↗
Cilantro makes sense.
Mark 5:42 ↗
Somehow this is going to taste good. You're saying?
Tour Guide 5:43 ↗
Incredible.
Lex Fridman 5:44 ↗
It smells good. Smells really good. Whatever that is. Smells really good.
Tour Guide 5:49 ↗
First time in Taiwan.
Lex Fridman 5:51 ↗
Wow.
Mark 5:53 ↗
Thanks for taking us to Taiwan.
Lex Fridman 5:55 ↗
Yeah. Different planets.
Mark 5:57 ↗
I think we're all in a simulation.
Lex Fridman 6:00 ↗
Yeah. I don't think we're the main players in this one.
Mark 6:03 ↗
Just be your best NPC right now.
Lex Fridman 6:08 ↗
I was like, what would an NPC do? That's what I've been doing. Let's try this thing.
So good.
Mark 6:20 ↗
He's right. It doesn't make any sense. Ice cream, cilantro, nuts. It's soft and chewy.
Tour Guide 6:31 ↗
Thank you. Every day.
Mark 6:34 ↗
It's delicious.
Lex Fridman 6:39 ↗
I don't think I've ever had an ice cream in a tortilla with a vegetable, but it's delicious. Makes no sense, but it's delicious.
Mark 6:56 ↗
I think we're no longer sampling. I think we're eating at this point.
But the ice cream is very needed. Yeah, it is. It's really refreshing.
Tour Guide 7:03 ↗
We're going to go get some mango. Green mangoes. Lex, green mango.
Lex Fridman 7:08 ↗
We must. Okay. I didn't even know that was a thing.

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@misc{fridman2026_3057627,
  author       = {Lex Fridman},
  title        = {Eating everything at a Taiwanese Night Market with Jensen Huang | Lex Fridman},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Lex Clips. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {oct},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3057627/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}