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

The best street food in Taiwan with Jensen Huang | Lex Fridman

📅 Oct 17, 2026 Lex Clips 10 MIN 1482 VIEWS 130 SEGMENTS · 2 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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Lex Fridman hosts a night market food tour in Taiwan with Jensen Huang, praising various dishes including sweet potato marshmallow balls, spicy noodles, watermelon, cinnamon corn, shave ice, pineapple with guava, and the famous Taiwanese oyster pancake. Fridman ranks the spicy noodle as his number one dish. He comments on the local crowd, noting many came because Jensen was there a day or two prior. When asked about the local engineering team, a co-panelist reveals there are about a thousand engineers in Taiwan across systems, operations, packaging, and test engineering, and mentions plans to build a building replica that will hold 4,000 people. Fridman expresses enjoyment of the cold Taiwan beer and the overall experience.

Key takeaways

  1. A co-panelist states there are about a thousand engineers in Taiwan across several engineering disciplines.
  2. A new building in Taiwan, a replica of an existing one, will hold 4,000 people.
  3. Fridman calls the famous Taiwanese oyster pancake amazing and goes in for seconds.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Night market food tasting
  2. 2:33Sweet potato balls and noodles
  3. 4:05Taiwan beer and noodle ranking
  4. 5:01Cinnamon corn and dessert
  5. 7:06Engineering team and new building
  6. 8:14Pineapple guava and oyster pancake

Questions asked in this interview

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  1. 9:17You get it all in there. Did you do the oyster?
Lex Fridman 0:14 ↗
Couldn't help it. Had to. Jensen loves the night market way too much not to do it.
This is so good.
Oh, they love Jensen.
This is incredible.
All right, I officially can't wait to eat this.
This is nuts.
Co-Panelist 1:23 ↗
Don't lose the white kid.
Watermelon. It's like hamburger.
Nice. Take a bite.
Lex Fridman 1:38 ↗
I think it's time. I think it's cool enough now.
Co-Panelist 1:41 ↗
Yes, nice and warm.
Yeah, I think it's cool enough now. You're going to like that a lot.
Lex Fridman 1:53 ↗
This is amazing.
Co-Panelist 1:55 ↗
I know. Nice to meet you.
Lex Fridman 2:04 ↗
It's really hot outside. This is nice and cold, super refreshing.
Mystery ball.
So good. It is so good. Oh, it's so good.
So, it's empty on the inside, crunchy on the outside. It's like a sweet potato marshmallow.
Co-Panelist 2:38 ↗
That was delicious.
I think so, and video.
Here, son.
Original.
Lex Fridman 2:53 ↗
The one we're going with?
Co-Panelist 2:55 ↗
So, just simple.
Lex Fridman 2:56 ↗
Yeah.
Co-Panelist 2:56 ↗
Too salty?
Lex Fridman 2:57 ↗
Perfect.
Co-Panelist 3:02 ↗
Delicious, right?
Lex Fridman 3:05 ↗
Thank you.
Co-Panelist 3:06 ↗
Okay, younger brother.
[laughter]
I don't want to be a little man. All right.
Lex Fridman 3:13 ↗
Looks delicious.
Co-Panelist 3:39 ↗
[laughter]
He squeezed the money right back into the bag.
Lex Fridman 3:45 ↗
Okay.
Co-Panelist 3:54 ↗
Very good.
I didn't want you to inhale yourself.
Lex Fridman 4:05 ↗
Oh, nice. This is nice cold Taiwan beer.
What is it?
Co-Panelist 4:13 ↗
Oh, a little of this noodle.
Lex Fridman 4:29 ↗
That's amazing.
Co-Panelist 4:30 ↗
Amazing, right?
Lex Fridman 4:30 ↗
Spicy. It's really good noodle. It's really good noodle.
Co-Panelist 4:35 ↗
Use this. This is easy.
Lex Fridman 4:36 ↗
Somebody handed this to Jesslyn. I'm enjoying the hell out of it. That might be the best food I've ever had.
Co-Panelist 4:42 ↗
[laughter]
Lex Fridman 4:44 ↗
Okay, look at this. This doesn't make any sense.
Co-Panelist 4:47 ↗
This is your vegetable.
Lex Fridman 4:49 ↗
Yeah, I think I've downed...
Co-Panelist 4:50 ↗
I need to [laughter] make sure we had a fully balanced meal.
Lex Fridman 4:53 ↗
Yeah.
Co-Panelist 5:01 ↗
Some cinnamon.
Lex Fridman 5:02 ↗
Okay, it's like a cinnamon... It's like a snickerdoodle meets corn.
Co-Panelist 5:07 ↗
This is good.
Could it be bad?
Lex Fridman 5:09 ↗
So good.
Co-Panelist 5:09 ↗
Cooked the right amount.
Lex Fridman 5:12 ↗
For me, probably the noodle was number one.
Co-Panelist 5:15 ↗
Yeah, yeah.
Lex Fridman 5:16 ↗
That was good. That was good. And whatever that sweet potato...
Co-Panelist 5:20 ↗
Those little balls. There's still some more of those.
Lex Fridman 5:22 ↗
That was really good.
Co-Panelist 5:24 ↗
Those were delicious.

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Fridman, L. (2026, October 17). The best street food in Taiwan with Jensen Huang | Lex Fridman [Interview transcript]. Lex Clips. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3083296/

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Lex Fridman. "The best street food in Taiwan with Jensen Huang | Lex Fridman." Lex Clips, 17 Oct. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3083296/.

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@misc{fridman2026_3083296,
  author       = {Lex Fridman},
  title        = {The best street food in Taiwan with Jensen Huang | Lex Fridman},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Lex Clips. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {oct},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3083296/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}