Eddie Huang Is Coming to Town and Cooking Stuff From His Baohaus Menu
The badass Baohaus chef visits the Seaport.
The badass Baohaus chef visits the Seaport.
"Before the big event, I just wanted to have lunch with my two best friends, my editor and my brother. So we all got the omakase at Kurumazushi. That was awesome."
Huang's publicist is earning her paycheck.
The two share complicated handshakes, talk like mystical homies, and share their displacement issues.
The outspoken Baohaus chef joins a brain trust of "thinkers and doers."
He says the burrito at La Taqueria doesn't quite do it for him.
He believes one should be able to kill an animal if one eats meat.
American cooks who found their calling through passion, not ancestry.
"[Bowien says,] 'I love Chinese food. I don't know what I'm doing, but I respect this, that and the other Szechuan restaurant. Please don't consider me a master, I'm just a dude with a tea pot full of dirty girl...
"I got to eat some of the food that I made for them, which was sauteed duck's testicles with white wine and herbs; and a calf's-brain sandwich. It was delicious."
The Pok Pok chef will take over the former Baohaus space on the Lower East Side.
But as a consolation prize, he's adding beef noodle soup and soup dumplings at the East Village location.
"His real contribution is that he saw food in its proper cultural place as a part of the STYLE section."
Eddie Huang is back to doing what he does best: stuffing buns.