{"id":6674,"date":"2010-11-16T17:11:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-16T17:11:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:11:44","slug":"Chef-Eddie-Huang-on-Asian-America-and-restaurant-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=6674","title":{"rendered":"Chef Eddie Huang on Asian America and restaurant reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chef Eddie Huang<\/strong> owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baohausnyc.com\/about\">baohausnyc<\/a>, (Yum!, have you ever been? Delicious!) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.XiaoYenyc.com\">Xiao Ye<\/a> in New York City, was recently profiled on CNN for the difficulty of running a restaurant, his Asian American background and how he reacts to  restaurant reviews.  <\/p>\n<p>A negative review of a new restaurant can be devastating, especially when it comes from the New York Times. Restaurant critic Sam Sifton recently reviewed <strong>Eddie Huang&#8217;s Taiwanese\/Chinese restaurant Xiao Ye<\/strong> on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and while Sifton had a lot of praise for Huang&#8217;s food, he also had a lot of criticism over the menu and the chef himself. He declined to give Xiao Ye a star. <\/p>\n<p>But that didn\u2019t really discourage <strong>Eddie Huang<\/strong>, who is a writer as well as a chef and restaurant owner. <strong>Huang<\/strong> responded publicly to the review by posting an e-mail from his mother Jessica on his blog &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thepopchef.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/ma-dukes-responds-to-sifton-review.html\">Fresh off the boat<\/a>&#8220;. Jessica called it a &#8220;review of your life&#8221;. She wrote, &#8220;You have always tried to be different or funny for the sake of funny, to cover up <strong>your anger and discomforts about how we Asian are being perceived<\/strong>. It is not necessary to do that, your true talents will lead you above it all.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Her e-mail prompted a lot of comments from readers of Eddie&#8217;s blog on both his food and his Asian American identity. CNN Eatocracy&#8217;s editor <strong>Kat Kinsman recently sat down with Eddie and Jessica at Xiao Ye<\/strong> to talk about these issues and find out why Eddie was actually pleased with the review.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"416\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=living\/2010\/11\/16\/pkg.chef.responds.to.review.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=living\/2010\/11\/16\/pkg.chef.responds.to.review.cnn\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"416\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"374\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\/2010\/11\/16\/eddie-huang-on-asian-american-identity-and-lessons-learned-from-a-bad-review\/\">Source CNN.com<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chef Eddie Huang owner of baohausnyc, (Yum!, have you ever been? 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