Top 25 Eddie Huang Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I blog because I have something to say.

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

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

When I feel off, I read the ‘Tao Te Ching’ to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

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.

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

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

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

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.