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.
I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.
BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
I blog because I have something to say.
I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let '...
I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
