In December 2009, he opened BaoHaus, a Taiwanese bun shop, on the Lower East Side of New York. After being laid off from a New York law firm, Huang worked as a stand-up comic and as a marijuana dealer. Not long after graduating from law school, Huang decided for a career change. He attended The University of Pittsburgh, Rollins College and graduated with a B.A. Huang identified with African-American culture, especially hip-hop, at a young age. He was raised in Orlando, Florida, where his father managed a successful group of steak and seafood restaurants. Huang was born in 1982 in Washington, D.C. is all you need to get that straight.” -Bookforum 作者简介 A single, kinetic passage from Fresh Off the Boat. Whatever he ends up doing, you can be sure it won’t look or sound like anything that’s come before. “Although writing a memoir is an audacious act for a thirty-year-old, it is not nearly as audacious as some of the things Huang did and survived even earlier. writing is at once hilarious and provocative his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles.” - Interview It’s a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times ![]() as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan. a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America. outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true.” - New York Times Book Review It’s a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be American. After misadventures as an unlikely lawyer, street fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, Eddie finally threw everything he loved-past and present, family and food-into his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching back to China and the shards of global culture he’d melded into his own identity.įunny, raw, and moving, and told in an irrepressibly alive and original voice, Fresh Off the Boat recasts the immigrant’s story for the twenty-first century. His anchor through it all was food-from making Southern ribs with the Haitian cooks in his dad’s restaurant to preparing traditional meals in his mother’s kitchen to haunting the midnight markets of Taipei when he was shipped off to the homeland. ![]() He obsessed over football, fought the all-American boys who called him a chink, partied like a gremlin, sold drugs with his crew, and idolized Tupac. While his father improbably launched a series of successful seafood and steak restaurants, Eddie burned his way through American culture, defying every “model minority” stereotype along the way. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own.Įddie grew up in theme-park America, on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. He’s bigger than food.”-Anthony BourdainĮddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus-the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night-and one of the food world’s brightest and most controversial young stars. (Jan.“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. Brash, leading-edge, and unapologetically hip, Huang reconfigures the popular foodie memoir into something worthwhile and very memorable. Wade or Regents of the University of California v. “I grew up in the excess of the Brat Pack–Madonna–Joe Montana–Michael Jackson 80s and the NWA–MJ–Nirvana–World Wide Web nineties, and we saw the residual battles from seminal cases like Roe v. He traces his food jones to his father’s restaurant in Orlando, Fla., wrestling with his Chinese identity, while embracing a love of old school hip-hop, Michael Jackson, Charles Barkley, and Jonathan Swift’s satirical “A Modest Proposal.” Writing with attitude, Huang details his journey from novice cook sampling Haitian ribs, Southern cooking, Japanese Izakaya wings, Bon Chon Korean fried chicken, and Taiwanese foods to opening his landmark eatery known for its fashionable, simple Asian street food. ![]() Huang, the founder of the popular East Village food shop Baohaus, tells his unconventional immigrant fable with his FOB (“fresh off the boat”) parents and his unusual relatives living the Yankee dream.
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