Eddie Huang Quotes

• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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 here. It’s all kind of illogical.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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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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• I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

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• I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

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Eddie Huang (30)

Birth:	1st March, 1982
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Chef, Lawyer, Restaurateur, Writer

About

Edwyn Charles "Eddie" Huang was born in Washington, D.C, US. He is an American restaurateur, chef, writer, and lawyer. He owns BaoHaus, a sandwich shop in the East Village of Manhattan. He attended The University of Pittsburgh and Rollins College, graduating with a B.A. in English and Film from Rollins in 2004.  In 2008, Huang earned a J.D. from Cardozo School of Law. Huang's first job as a lawyer was working in corporate law at Chadbourne & Parke in New York City. Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir was released in early 2013, receiving favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly and The New York Times.

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