Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir

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I didn’t understand how network television, the one-size fits-all antithesis to Fresh Off the Boat, was going to house the voice of a futuristic chinkstronaut. His] writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles.

The book shares its title with Huang's blog and his Vice online video program, and refers to Huang's Taiwanese immigrant background.

The book's main plot narrates his relationship with his Asian background and how that affected his life and relationships with other people.

It’s like his professor told him, once you’ve engaged in conversation with everyone around the table and found the truth, you need to stand up for it. 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. 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.

Funny, 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. The standard shots were there, the kitchen scenes, banter, banter, banter, but through all the fucking duck sauce and wonton strips, Melvin and Natch did it … They fucking did it. Anthony Bourdain NATIONAL BESTSELLER Eddie 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.

The social contract is here because we have a collective desire to be individuals and preserve our rights to pursue singular happiness with or without cilantro. Throughout the book tour, it was my favorite scene to read because it exemplified how foreign white culture was to me. Funny, raw, and moving, and told in an irrepressibly alive and original voice, Fresh Off the Boat recasts the immigrant’s story for the 21st century.We still wake up spotting the man 10 points, walking with our heads down, apologizing for our FOB-y aunts and uncles as if aspiring to wash your shirt or do your taxes were really such an insidiously foreign idea.