Eddie Huang

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Eddie Huang
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Huang in 2015
Born
Edwyn Charles Huang

(1982-03-01) March 1, 1982 (age 42)
Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
Education University of Pittsburgh
Rollins College (BA)
Yeshiva University (JD)
Years active2006–present
Known forBaoHaus (Manhattan restaurant)
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
Fresh Off the Boat
Huang's World
SpouseShia Blanca
Children1
Eddie Huang
Traditional Chinese 黃 頤 銘
Simplified Chinese 黄 颐 铭
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Huáng Yímíng

In December 2009, Huang opened BaoHaus, a Taiwanese bun (刈包) shop, in the Lower East Side section of Lower Manhattan. [20] In July 2011, he relocated his first shop to 238 East 14th Street in the East Village with an expanded menu. [21] In October 2020, Huang announced the permanent closure of BaoHaus. [22] Prior to shutting down, the restaurant had been praised by TimeOut for cheap pricing and unique menu items. [23]

Another restaurant, Xiao Ye, was less successful and closed after poor reviews and controversy over its sales of Four Loko. [24] Sam Sifton, a reviewer for The New York Times, awarded the restaurant zero (out of four) stars, and wrote that "if Mr. Huang spent even a third of the time cooking that he does writing funny blog posts and wry Twitter updates, posting hip-hop videos and responding to Internet friends, rivals, critics and customers, Xiao Ye might be one of the more interesting restaurants to open in New York City in the last few months." [25]

Author

Huang created the blog called Fresh Off the Boat and later published a memoir with Random House by the same name. [26] Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir was released in early 2013, receiving favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly [27] and The New York Times . [28]

Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China was published in 2016.

Television

Huang hosted Cheap Bites on the Cooking Channel at the end of 2011 and also appeared on several episodes of Unique Eats before leaving the Cooking Channel for Viceland, where he hosted a recurring segment, also called Fresh Off the Boat, which was later developed into an hour-long show and renamed Huang's World . In 2014, Huang was the host of Snack Off on MTV. The show featured Huang, mentoring contestants participating in challenges that determine who can whip up the tastiest treats using random ingredients like fish sticks, canned oysters, chocolate and much more. [8] [29]

Fresh Off the Boat

In 2014, ABC ordered a television series based on his book, also titled Fresh Off the Boat , starring Randall Park and Constance Wu, with Hudson Yang playing Eddie. [30] The show debuted with two preview episodes on February 4, 2015, and premiered in its prime time slot on February 10, 2015. [31] Huang narrated every episode of the first season, but left the show prior to the second season. [32]

Huang was outspoken in his criticism of the development process of the show, writing a lengthy essay about his concern that his vision for the show was compromised. [33] [34] Huang has said that he doesn’t like the show, because he thinks that the storyline after the pilot episode is not what he wrote in his memoir. [35] He has said that he mostly avoids watching it, though he admits there were two exceptions he tuned into: The episode with a DMX cameo in which he appreciated the interactions between DMX and young Eddie, which he talks about in his book, “Double Cup Love”; He also admits tuning for a few minutes to the episode where the family visits Taiwan, but didn’t like it. [36]

Film

In August 2019, it was announced Huang would direct and write Boogie , a coming-of-age movie about a young Chinese-American basketball player's rise to prominence, starring Taylor Takahashi, Pamelyn Chee, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Mike Moh, Dave East, Pop Smoke, Perry Yung, Alexa Mareka and Taylour Paige, with Focus Features distributing. [37] [38] [39] [40] Huang wrote the screenplay in five days with no plan or outline incorporating the themes that have defined his life such as basketball, feeling adrift in a country where he has always been in a minority, and domestic abuse. [41]

Controversies

Huang drew criticism in May 2015 for comments he made about black women during an interview on Real Time With Bill Maher . He said, "I feel like Asian men have been emasculated so much in America that we're basically treated like black women." Later he engaged in a Twitter exchange on his account @MrEddieHuang with @BlackGirlDanger where he defended his comments, which were called "misogynoir". Huang then tweeted "are we dating cause you wildin. lol" and proceeded to make romantic advancements towards her. [42] [43]

Huang has also drawn criticism for his appropriation of African-American culture. [44] Huang has stated: "I’ve devoted myself to speaking about people owning their own cultures that they’ve created, that they came over with, and educating people about the foundational values in culture." [45] In The New York Times, Joshua David Stein described Huang as "a walking mixtape of postmodern cultural appropriation." [46] In New Bloom magazine, Brian Hioe wrote that Huang exhibits "misogynistic language and attitudes," non-conventional English speech and dress, and experiences with police that indicate an "adoption of a hip hop influenced persona." [47]

Works and publications

See also

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