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Fresh Off the Boat is a memoir, based on the author’s recollection.Some names and identifying details have been changed.
Copyright © 2013 by Eddie Huang
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Huang, EddieFresh off the boat : a memoir / Eddie Huang.p. cm.eISBN: 978-0-679-64489-71. Huang, Eddie, 1982– 2. Restaurateurs—New York (State)—New York—Biography. 3. Taiwanese Americans—Biography 4. Taiwanese Americans—Ethnic identity. 5. Lawyers—New York (State)—New York—Biography.6. New York (N.Y.)—Biography. I. Title.TX910.5.H83A3 2013647.95092—dc23
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“CAN’T GET PAID AND THE EARTH THIS BIG?YOU WORTHLESS KID.”
—Cam’ron
“YEAH YEAH, I DESIGN THESE THINGS ANDYOU KNOW I’M IN THE HOOD LIKE CHINESE WINGS.”
—Jadakiss
“DON’T BE AFRAID, FIGHT FOR IT.”
—Dad
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Part One
1. Meet the Parents
2. God Has Assholes for Children
3. Rosetta Stone
4. Rotten Bananas
5. This American Life
6. Mo Money, Mo Problems
7. The Chain Reaction
8. Pink Nipples
9. Len Bias Broke my Heart
10. Special Herbs
11. The End of the Beginning
Part Two
12. Night Market
13. Royal Huang
14. I Know a Little Bit
15. Hypebeasts
16. They Don’t Love Me, They Just Love My Tiger Style
17. World Star
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1.
MEET THE PARENTS
“The soup dumplings are off today!” Grandpa said.
“Should we tell the waiter? We should send these back.”
“No, no, no, no, no, don’t lose face over soup dumplings. Just eat them.”
My mom always wanted to send food back. Everything on the side, some things hot, some things cold, no MSG, less oil, more chilis, oh, and some vinegar please. Black vinegar with green chilis if you have it, if not, red vinegar with ginger, and if you don’t have that, then just white vinegar by itself and a can of Coke, not diet because diet causes cancer.
Microwaves cause cancer, too, so she buys a Foreman grill and wears a SARS mask because “oil fumes can ruin lungs,” says the woman who smokes Capri cigarettes and drives an SUV wearing a visor. That’s my mom.
I couldn’t eat with my mom; she drove me crazy. But she never bothered my grandfather. He was always above the trees. Like 3 Stacks sa ............

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