Devin Nguyen

Real and unfiltered

Revisado: 12-09-23

This is an amazing story that many young Asian males can relate to, growing up as an Asian American with immigrant parents you mainly go down 2 main routes, it’s either the model minority or you rebel. The people who are giving this book poor reviews are either Asian people who are insecure with their own identity or Americans who think that America can do no wrong and that he is lucky to be in America. News flash you can be grateful for what you have but still criticize that same thing, he is giving the reader a dose of reality. For many young Asian guys there are many parallels between Huang’s life and their own. The core of this story is the American dream, Huang gave up the stability that many are too afraid to stray from to live his dream, training with many great highly respected chefs, one of those being Anthony Bourdain. The other criticism I have been seeing is that it’s nothing like the show, for those that are complaining about that you have to realize that this is real life and the show is a pretend imaginary world that takes inspiration from this book. This came first and if your introduction to Eddie Huang was the show with the same name then ABC showed you a rose tinted version of this story. Many are saying that this is nothing like the show, yet the first episode took many things from this book and incorporated into the show, but tv executives just made it more family friendly. The readers that are saying that there is no audience for this kind of story are the reason why these kinds of stories exist, many want to deny the existence of people like Huang because it doesn’t fit in their definition of asian people. Just because some are ok with being the model minority doesn’t mean everyone else has to be, don’t let your insecurities define with other peoples capabilities are.

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