Eddie Huang

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

“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 you...”

“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 s...”

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”