{"id":377241,"date":"2026-10-19T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:08:07","slug":"where-chef-eric-sze-eats-on-his-day-off-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377241\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Chef Eric Sze Eats on His Day Off in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chef Eric Sze, the owner of NYC\u2019s Wenwen<\/a>, shows us the bakeries, pizzerias, and restaurants he visits weekly for everything from simple baguette sandwiches to oversized wontons.<\/p>\n

Sze starts his day off with a sandwich at Bakeri<\/a>; his go-to order is honey, apple, and brie layered on a crunchy baguette. Then he heads to The Meat Hook<\/a>, Wenwen\u2019s meat supplier, to get a specialty cut of steak and dry-aged short ribs for dinner. Next, he grabs a whole, crispy, NY-style pie at Chrissy\u2019s Pizza<\/a> (chef Chris Hansell has been perfecting this pie for years). The jalape\u00f1o and garlic pie has perfect proportions of each ingredient, all on a doughy, yeasted crust.<\/p>\n

For his final stop, Sze goes to Maxi\u2019s Noodle 2<\/a> in Flushing for the nostalgic Chinese food he\u2019s craved since leaving Taiwan. Owner Maxi Lau-O\u2019Keefe teaches him how to make her iconic wontons, filled with shrimp and pork before being expertly folded. After being humbled by the complex folding process, Sze settles in for a soup full of thin noodles made with duck eggs and those classic wontons, alongside beef soup.<\/p>\n

Watch the most recent episode of Chef\u2019s Day Off<\/a> to see how chef Eric Sze spends his day off at his favorite restaurants, bakeries, and butcher shops around New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chef Eric Sze, the owner of NYC\u2019s Wenwen, shows us the bakeries, pizzerias, and restaurants he visits weekly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,1115],"class_list":["post-377241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}