Eddie Huang
Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohausâ€”the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the nightâ€”and one of the food worldâ€™s brightest and most controversial young stars. 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. ,Eddie grew up in theme-park America, on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, raised by a wild family of FOB (â€œfresh off the boatâ€) hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. While his father improbably launched a series of successful seafood and steak restaurants, Eddie burned his way through American culture, defying every â€œmodel minorityâ€ stereotype along the way. 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. His anchor through it all was foodâ€”from making Southern ribs (and scoring drugs) with the Haitian cooks in his dadâ€™s restaurant to preparing traditional meals in his motherâ€™s kitchen to haunting the midnight markets of Taipei when he was shipped off to the homeland. After misadventures as an unlikely lawyer, street fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, Eddie finally threw everything he lovedâ€”past and present, family and foodâ€”into his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching back to China and the shards of global culture heâ€™d melded into his own identity. ,Funny, raw, and moving, and told in an irrepressibly alive and original voice, ,Fresh Off the Boat ,recasts the immigrantâ€™s story for the twenty-first centuryâ€”itâ€™s a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be American.
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Fresh Off the Boat