Fresh Off the Boat
A Memoir
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Eddie Huang
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Eddie Huang
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"Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food." (Anthony Bourdain)
Eddie Huang is the 30-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. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own.
Eddie grew up in theme-park America, on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, raised by a wild family of FOB ("fresh off the boat") hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. 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. He obsessed over football, fought the all-American boys who called him a chink, partied like a gremlin, sold drugs with his crew, and idolized Tupac. His anchor through it all was food - from making Southern ribs with the Haitian cooks in his dad’s restaurant to preparing traditional meals in his mother’s kitchen to haunting the midnight markets of Taipei when he was shipped off to the homeland. 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.
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. It’s a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be American.
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Ce que les critiques en disent
"Mercilessly funny and provocative, Fresh Off the Boat is also a serious piece of work - and an important one. Eddie Huang is hunting nothing less than Big Game here - a question, a conversation, an argument: Who are we? If somebody’s going to put a thumb in your eye, it should probably be Eddie Huang. He does everything with style." (Anthony Bourdain)
"Brash, leading-edge, and unapologetically hip, Huang reconfigures the popular foodie memoir into something worthwhile and very memorable." (Publishers Weekly)
"Eddie Huang has a delightfully funny and down-to-earth narration style that captures the cultural nuances, mannerisms, and speech patterns of a diverse range of characters.... [H]is affable persona, expressive reading, occasional chuckles, and intentional digressions from the book to directly address audio listeners make his story and performance compelling and charming." (AudioFile)
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-01-21
As a Second Generation Asian, this is relatable.
I'm nothing like Eddie.
I love industrial metal, I play guitar, and I'm married to a French-Belgian Canadian girl, while making art for video games, and cooking a LOT of korean food.
His journey of self discovery, and battling through some awful stereotypes, makes this book so compelling to me personally. It's almost like reading someone who arrived at the exact same place, but in a completely different route.
I'm really not sure if this book would appeal the same way to my Caucasian friends, but I've recommended this to nearly every second generation asian who didn't 'fit in' conventionally. Both who found their way to fit, and those who are still struggling to get there.
It's a great book. I wish I got to read something like this when I was in my teens.
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- 2022-05-30
This what I needed fr fr…
Love me a good American underdawg story always. Eddie is such a real one all throughout the book, it’s hard not to root him early into his story.
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- Sandra
- 2022-11-25
Fantastic
Great book . So raw and real loved it . Much respect for the writher . A must listen.
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