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.
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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.
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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. “Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit.
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