Eddie Huang

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

— Eddie Huang

I blog because I have something to say.

— Eddie Huang

America ain’t three fifths bad.

— Eddie Huang

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

— Eddie Huang

“I wanted to get free. (129)”

— Eddie Huang

“Good food makes me want to hit a punching bag like, Dat's right motherfucker. You done did it there.”

— Eddie Huang

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

— Eddie Huang

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

— Eddie Huang

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

— Eddie Huang

“Once they spent money on a problem, they never thought about it again.”

— Eddie Huang

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

— Eddie Huang

Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

— Eddie Huang

When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh…

— Eddie Huang

I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell…

— Eddie Huang

“I think my mom is manic, but Chinese people don't believe in psychologists. We just drink more tea when things go bad.…

— Eddie Huang

“By the time Christmas came around, while all the other kids made cards, she had me sit in a corner and face…

— Eddie Huang

I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in…

— Eddie Huang

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

— Eddie Huang

“The easiest way for Americans to make sense of Chinese history is to compare everything to Jewish history. There's an analogue for…

— Eddie Huang

“Mon, they said they were going to 'fuck me up'!" "No, we didn't, he fucked himself up." "No one is fucking anyone!…

— Eddie Huang

“I think my mom is manic, but Chinese people don't believe in psychologists. We just drink more tea when things go bad.”

— Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you…

— Eddie Huang

“Xiang wei is the character a good dish has when it’s robust, flavorful, and balanced but still maintains a certain light quality.…

— Eddie Huang

“My parents always insulted each other. Mom was a good student and thought school was important. Dad agreed even though he had…

— Eddie Huang

I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on…

— Eddie Huang

“The best part about beef noodle soup is that there are no rules. It just has to have beef, noodle, and soup.…

— Eddie Huang

“Why leave a country when you're on top? Whether it was another communist scare or the even greener pastures in America, no…

— Eddie Huang

“Religion wasn't a big deal in our house. I don't think it was a big deal in most Chinese households. We always…

— Eddie Huang

Whether it's food or women, the ones on front street are supermodels. Big hair, big tits, big trouble, but the one you…

— Eddie Huang

“I wasn't an Irishman, but I knew how it felt to have someone standing over you, controlling your life and wanting to…

— Eddie Huang

“Every few months or so at home, Pops had to have Taiwanese ’Mian. Not the Dan-Dan Mian you get at Szechuan restaurants…

— Eddie Huang

“My mom had this habit of speaking Chinese in front of Americans. She didn't give a fuck that they probably thought it…

— Eddie Huang

“People has jokes, but at this point I was meaner, so I didn't even think twice. You said some shit, I threw…

— Eddie Huang

“What we did do was got to Chinese school. Whether you lived in D.C., Ann Arbor, New York, or Orlando, if there…

— Eddie Huang

“Every culture had dishes that prized the simple and traditional over showy flavors and elaborate presentations. The things that my not seem…

— Eddie Huang

“For years, I wanted to know if there was one person, one voice, one individual inside me. All my life people would…

— Eddie Huang

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." (258) My parents were Fresh…

— Eddie Huang

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

— Eddie Huang

I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

— Eddie Huang

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

— Eddie Huang