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"Long before I met him, I got a admirer 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 factors their encounters with scrumptious Taiwanese block food late into the night time - and one of the food world's brightest & most controversial young actors. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a tiny patch of downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness searching for a spot to call his own. Eddie was raised in theme-park America, on the could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, lifted by a wild category of FOB ("fresh from the fishing boat") hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. While his dad improbably launched some successful seafood and steak restaurants, Eddie burned up his way through American culture, defying every "model minority" stereotype on the way. He obsessed over football, fought the all-American kids who called him a chink, partied just like a gremlin, sold drugs with his crew, and idolized Tupac. His anchor through everything was food - from making Southern ribs with the Haitian cooks in his dad's restaurant to getting ready traditional meals in his mother's kitchen to haunting the midnight marketplaces of Taipei when he was delivered off to the homeland. After misadventures as an improbable lawyer, block 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 out back again to China and the shards of global culture he'd melded into his own id. Funny, raw, and moving, and advised in an irrepressibly alive and original tone, Fresh Off the Motorboat recasts the immigrant's story for the 21st century. It's a tale of food, family, and the forging of a fresh idea of what it means to be American.
