Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Eddie Huang

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American chef Eddie Huang.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Edwyn Charles Huang is an American film director, author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. Huang previously hosted Huang's World for Viceland. His autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, was adapted into the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, of which he narrated the first season.

American - Chef | Born: March 1, 1982

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I blog because I have something to say.

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I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

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

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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 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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BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

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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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I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

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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 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'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

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

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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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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 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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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 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 want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

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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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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

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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'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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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 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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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 don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

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I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

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People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met.

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Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

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Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

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America ain’t three fifths bad.

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When you have a strong conviction, you have a duty not to tell people what they want. At least represent yourself and say: ‘Yo, this is what I’m into, and this is what I’m seeing in the world. Let me take your hand and guide you through it, so you can see through my eyes

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Whether it’s food or women, the ones on front street are supermodels. Big hair, big tits, big trouble, but the one you come home to is probably something like cavatelli and red sauce. She’s not screaming for attention because she knows she’s good enough even if your dumb ass hasn’t figured it out yet.

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Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Eddie Huang

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