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81 " My grandpa and grandma were broke and made a living selling mantou on the street, just like Kossar selling bialys or Schimmel selling knishes. The easiest way for Americans to make sense of Chinese history is to compare everything to Jewish history. There’s an analogue for everything. Torah: Analects. Curly sideburns: long ponytails. Mantou: bagels. "
― Eddie Huang , Fresh Off the Boat
82 " That’s professional cooking. To take something that already speaks to us, do it at the highest level, and force everyone else to step up, too. Food at its best uplifts the whole community, makes everyone rise to its standard. "
83 " Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money. "
84 " Word … I like this hip-hop! You got more of it?” “Yeah, Doggystyle comes out soon and I’ll send it to you.” When I got Doggystyle, my dad took it away. “What is this stuff? These dogs are having sex on the back! Who is this Doggy Dog? "
85 " There was an individual inside me that wasn't Chinese, that wasn't American, that wasn't Orlando. Just a kid trying to get the fuck out, tell his story, and arrange the world how it made sense to him. "
86 " Chinese people questioned my yellowness because I was born in America. Then white people questioned my identity as an American because I was yellow. "
87 " No matter how hard the Man tries to sterilize us, I take solace in the fact that that we can't be erased. "
― Eddie Huang , Double Cup Love
88 " Bankers make money, too, but I’m not running up into Chase and throwing milk shakes at the homie selling subprime mortgages. "
89 " Figure it out!” We always had to figure it out, so you can, too! We didn’t have the luxury of people explaining why I couldn’t use my left hand or why his family had no money. We just figured it out. But love is a funny thing. "
90 " I don’t believe you need to shout out the farm, the name of the chicken, or all that other bullshit on the menu because it should simply be the standard that we serve all-natural meat. "
91 " I suddenly realized that converting to white wouldn’t be easy, but still, that toilet paper was like silk. "
92 " We had to have white people front like the chef and owners. It was not OK for my dad to sell steak, but white people cooking Asian get more attention than the people in Chinatown who actually know what the fuck they’re doing. "
93 " These white people like really mushy food. "
94 " Suburban or not, something most definitely went wrong and we’re still trying to figure it out. But if you ask me, Pac and that dickhead at Debate Club had a lot to do with it. We never tried to join a club, after-school activity, or anything productive, for that matter, ever again. The Honor Roll wasn’t something we wanted to be part of. We gave up on doing it their way, we wanted to get free. "
95 " ...don't borrow money from people, but if other people need it from you lend it to them, as long as it's inconsequential. "
― Eddie Huang
96 " Macaroni is to Chinamen as water is to gremlins, teeth are to blow jobs, and Asian is to American. It just didn’t fit. "
97 " Why leave a country when you're on top? Whether it was another communist scare or the even greener pastures in America, no one ever gives me a straight answer. (The only thing anyone can agree on is that they still miss the island.) "
98 " Mon, they said they were going to 'fuck me up'!""No, we didn't, he fucked himself up.""No one is fucking anyone! Who taught you to fuck people up? ... "
99 " If my mom was made, you'd hear wild and crazy Chinese. If it was my dad, he got his white man voice on. "
100 " The show is easy when there aren't real feelings behind it. "