American - Chef | March 1, 1982 -
People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
Eddie Huang
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I blog because I have something to say.
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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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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 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'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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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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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 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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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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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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