Austin Supper Club at Ling Wu with Chef Ling & Evan Taniguchi!

March 19, 2026·50 min·3 clips

Chef Ling explains that her sixth restaurant is named Holly Wu after a daughter born two pounds premature who spent three months in the NICU, which changed Chef Ling's outlook on what to fight for.

Thursdays mean Austin Supper Club here. Trey Elling opens with Brian Stubbs and keeps the focus on the people behind Austin restaurants, bars, and coffee shops. The meal matters, sure, but the conversation keeps drifting toward how a place gets its roots. Chef Ling and Evan get most of the room. The tone is loose in that Austin radio way: business history one minute, civic pride the next, then a personal aside that somehow fits. Evan begins with family. Architecture was around him early, from prints to office life to the day to day practice. Then his work history widens out. He talks about opening an architects office on West 6th Street with his father in 1978, practicing for more than 50 years, and taking on projects as far away as the U.S. Embassy in Guyana. The UT thread comes up too. When Trey brings up the line about what starts here changing the world, Evan does not overplay it. He accepts it in a quiet way, as someone whose work has been tied to the city for a long time. Chef Ling keeps things warmer and more personal. Asked what she loves about working with Evan, she answers less like a partner on a project and more like someone talking about another dad. Her own dad is still part of the story, with the ping pong joke and the bit about being left alone, but Evan is the person she leans on for work, business, and long Austin memory. Austin becomes the through line. Brian talks about arriving as a transplant and finding a city where people seem only one layer away from a real connection. That is where the episode settles. It is a restaurant visit, but it is also about trust, mentorship, hospitality, and the local memory that makes a place feel lived in. Mama Ling adds to that warmth. Near the end, the thanks go to Chef Ling, Mama Ling, and Evan for the hospitality and for what they have done for the community. Hoover's gets a final nod when Trey says he plans to take his family there before early May. It is a small detail, but it makes the goodbye feel less like a signoff and more like a local recommendation already penciled into the week.

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A warm Austin stop at Ling Wu that ties food, architecture, and the people behind it together.

The segment moves from the usual sponsor and host setup into Austin Supper Club at Ling Wu at The Grove, keeping the focus on local businesses, restaurant culture, and architecture.

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A Thursday stop at Ling Wu at The Grove, with Austin culinary and architecture stories in the mix.

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