Eddie Huang Quotes
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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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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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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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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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'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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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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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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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.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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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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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
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BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
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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'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 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 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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When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
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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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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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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.