Fresh off the boat: a memoir

by Huang, Eddie

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Title Statements

Full title :Fresh off the boat : a memoir / Eddie Huang.

Summary

The author, one of the food world's brightest and most controversial young stars, 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. Huang grew up on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, Florida, 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, the author burned his way through American culture, obsessing over football, fighting 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. After misadventures as a lawyer, street fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, he finally threw everything he loved into his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching back to China and the shards of global culture he had melded into his own identity.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:Unabridged

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Random House Audio
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

Unabridged.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (7 audio files) : : digital

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780385364003, 0385364008, 9780679644880, 0679644881
oclc:on1302946636

Meet the parents -- God has assholes for children -- Rosetta stone -- Rotten bananas -- This American life -- Mo money, mo problems -- The chain reaction -- Pink nipples -- Len Bias broke my heart -- Special herbs -- The end of the beginning -- Night market -- Royal Huang -- I know a little bit -- Hypebeasts -- They don't love me, they just love my tiger style -- World star.

Subjects

Américains d'origine taiwanaise -- Biog… Américains d'origine taiwanaise -- Iden… Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Cooking & Food Downloadable audio books Huang, Eddie Lawyers Lawyers -- Biography New York (N.Y.) -- Biography New York (State) -- New York Restaurateurs Restaurateurs -- Biography. -- New York… Restaurateurs (Alimentation) -- Biograp… Taiwanese Americans Taiwanese Americans -- Biography Taiwanese Americans -- Ethnic identity