Eddie Huang
Eddie Huang
Edwyn Charles "Eddie" Huang is an American restaurateur, chef, food personality, writer, and attorney. He owns BaoHaus, a Baozi restaurant in the East Village of Manhattan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth1 March 1982
CountryUnited States of America
home food-culture community
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.
america people
I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
boxed people understand
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.
chinese east lower maintain puerto side
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.
bad borders born created fortune global good lines
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 here. It's all kind of illogical.
certain people
I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
food great open restaurant
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.
everybody people
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.
change chinese correct majority
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.
america chinese dim food goes nfl people rest sundays
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.
taiwanese
BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
america hooks people
I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
people
I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
concerns identify issues opportunity saw
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.