The latest in a long line of food delivery apps launched in New York, Maple, has a big USP - David Chang, the king of the pork bun, is at the helm.

Now, you don't even have to leave your front room to get Momofuku quality dinner. With Chang as chief culinary officer, heading up a team of rotating chefs, the sleek new app offers three lunch and dinner options daily - $12 and $15 respectively - promising piping-hot, exclusive dishes to your door in 15 minutes. Differentiating it from other delivery apps, Maple is run like a restaurant with a kitchen staff of 22, except the tables they serve happen to be in your home. The debut commissary kitchen in Brooklyn is overseen by executive chef Soa Davies, formerly of Michelin starred Le Bernardin. 

Right now the service is only available in the Financial District (from Chambers Street and below), but as part of their $22 million funding, it will soon roll out further afield. In future, they will avoid the problem of soggy chips, lukewarm Chinese and cold pizzas, by using a similar system of algorithms to that used by FedEx, to centrally locate its commissary kitchens based on user data. This should also help reduce delivery times too.

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