�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 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�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 twenty-first century. It�s a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be American.Praise for Fresh Off the Boat �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 (starred review)