28 Facts About Eddie Huang

Edwyn Charles Huang was born on March 1,1982 and is an American author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and former attorney.

Eddie Huang was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan.

Eddie Huang was born in Fairfax, Virginia, to Jessica and Louis Eddie Huang, who were immigrants from Taiwan.

Eddie Huang was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC, then moved to Orlando, Florida, where his father owned a successful group of steak and seafood restaurants, including Atlantic Bay Seafood and Grill and Cattleman's Ranch Steakhouse.

Eddie Huang appreciated African-American culture, especially hip-hop, at a young age.

Eddie Huang frequently got into fights, getting arrested at least twice on assault charges while growing up.

In 2008, Huang earned a JD from the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

At Cardozo, Eddie Huang worked at the Innocence Project, served as President of the Minority Law Students Association and as Vice President of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and won a New York City Bar Association Minority Fellowship in 2006.

Eddie Huang worked as a summer associate in 2006 and 2007, then was hired as an associate in the firm's corporate department in 2008.

Eddie Huang was interested in food as he had grown up watching his mother cook at home.

Eddie Huang learned cooking techniques from various chefs of different cultural backgrounds and cuisine styles that worked at his father's restaurants.

Eddie Huang learned management and how to be a good expeditor.

In 2011, Eddie Huang was named to the Chow 13, a list of influential people in food presented annually by Chow.

In December 2009, Eddie Huang opened BaoHaus, a Taiwanese bun shop, in the Lower East Side section of Lower Manhattan.

In October 2020, Eddie Huang announced the permanent closure of BaoHaus.

Eddie Huang created the blog called Fresh Off the Boat and later published a memoir with Random House by the same name.

Eddie Huang hosted Cheap Bites on the Cooking Channel at the end of 2011 and appeared on several episodes of Unique Eats before leaving the Cooking Channel for Viceland, where he hosted a recurring segment, called Fresh Off the Boat, which was later developed into an hour-long show and renamed Eddie Huang's World.

Eddie Huang narrated every episode of the first season, but left the show prior to the second season.

Eddie Huang was outspoken in his criticism of the development process of the show, writing a lengthy essay about his concern that his vision for the show was compromised.

Eddie Huang has said that he doesn't like the show, because he thinks that the storyline after the pilot episode is not what he wrote in his memoir.

Eddie Huang admits tuning for a few minutes to the episode where the family visits Taiwan, but didn't like it.

Eddie Huang wrote the screenplay in five days with no plan or outline, incorporating the themes that have defined his life such as basketball, feeling adrift in a country where he has always been in a minority, and domestic abuse.

Eddie Huang drew criticism in May 2015 for comments he made about black women during an interview on Real Time With Bill Maher.

The comment is intended to shine light on the racism experienced by both Black women and Asian men in dating, where Eddie Huang calls out the similarities in racial experiences between Black women and Asian men, where Black women are often portrayed as overly masculine and Asian men as overly feminine.

Eddie Huang has drawn criticism for his appropriation of African-American culture.

In late February 2025, Eddie Huang was involved in an incident in his New York City apartment building with Matt Sauerhoff, a celebrity trainer and former actor who is the founder and CEO of the personal training business The LIV Method.

Eddie Huang asked Sauerhoff to leash his dog, but Sauerhoff refused, and ended up enraged at Eddie Huang.

Eddie Huang demanded an apology from Sauerhoff, which Sauerhoff has refused as of February 27,2025.