Quotes by Eddie Huang

About Eddie Huang:

Edwyn Charles Huang is an American restaurateur, chef, food personality, writer, and attorney. He owns BaoHaus, a sandwich shop in the East Village of Manhattan.
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People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collect...

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We play into the definitions and stereotypes others impose on us and accept the model-minority myth, thinking it's positive, but it's a trap just like any stereotype. They put a piece of model-minority cheese between the metal jaws of their mousetrap...

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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.

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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

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I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.

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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

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I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born ...

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

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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

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

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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

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

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

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I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

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I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameEddie Huang
  • DescriptionRestaurateur, blogger
  • BornMarch 1, 1982
  • ProfessionRestaurateur; Lawyer