After questioning the authenticity of his Chinese identity, a first-generation Chinese-American embarks on a trip to connect with his homeland, in a follow-up toFresh Off the Boat, now a comedy airing on ABC. - (Baker & Taylor)

After questioning the authenticity of his Chinese identity, a first-generation Chinese-American embarks on a trip to connect with his homeland. - (Baker & Taylor)

"Fresh Off the Boat was Huang's story of growing up in his wild family as a first-generation Chinese-American in the comically hostile world of suburban America; a rejection of the typical narrative of assimilation, it was a rallying cry for cultural integrity. But as he entered adulthood (of sorts) he began to wonder just how authentic his Chinese identity really was, a dilemma that grew more acute as he contemplated proposing marriage to his all-American (well, all-Italian-American) girlfriend. So he enlisted his brothers Emery and Evan and returned to the land his ancestors had abandoned. His immediate goal was to sample the best food in China, from four-star restaurants in Shanghai to sidewalk vendors in Chengdu, and open his own stand to see if his food stood up to Chinese tastes--but his deeper goal was to reconnect with his homeland, repair his frayed family relationships, decide whether to marry to his American girlfriend, and figure out just where to find meaning in his life. Parallelling Eddie's journey to China, this starts off as a book about food, but widens into a powerful story about love and family and what really make us who we are"-- - (Baker & Taylor)

From the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork

Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He’d written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places around the globe. His New York City restaurant was humming, his OKCupid hand was strong, and he’d even hung fresh Ralph Lauren curtains to create the illusion of a bedroom in the tiny apartment he shared with his younger brother Evan, who ran their restaurant business.

Then he fell in love—and everything fell apart.

The business was creating tension within the family; his life as a media star took him away from his first passion—food; and the woman he loved—an All-American white girl—made him wonder: How Chinese am I? The only way to find out, he decided, was to reverse his parents’ migration and head back to the motherland. On a quest to heal his family, reconnect with his culture, and figure out whether he should marry his American girl, Eddie flew to China with his two brothers and a mission: to set up shop to see if his food stood up to Chinese palates—and to immerse himself in the culture to see if his life made sense in China. Naturally, nothing went according to plan.

Double Cup Love takes readers from Williamsburg dive bars to the skies over Mongolia, from Michelin-starred restaurants in Shanghai to street-side soup peddlers in Chengdu. The book rockets off as a sharply observed, globe-trotting comic adventure that turns into an existential suspense story with high stakes. Eddie takes readers to the crossroads where he has to choose between his past and his future, between who he once was and who he might become. Double Cup Love is about how we search for love and meaning—in family and culture, in romance and marriage—but also how that search, with all its aching and overpowering complexity, can deliver us to our truest selves.

Praise for Eddie Huang’s Double Cup Love

“Double Cup Love invites the readers to journey through [Eddie Huang’s] love story, new friendships, brotherhood, a whole lot of eating and more. Huang’s honest recounting shouts and whispers on every page in all-caps dialogues and hilarious side-commentary. Huang pulls simple truths and humor out of his complex adventure to China. His forthright sharing of anecdotes is sincere and generates uncontrollable laughter. . . . His latest memoir affirms not only that the self-described “human panda” is an engaging storyteller but a great listener, especially in the language of food.”—Chicago Tribune

“An elaborate story of love and self-discovery . . . Huang’s writing is wry and zippy; he regards the world with an understanding of its absurdities and injustices and with a willingness to be surprised.”—Jon Caramanica, The New York Times

“Huang is determined to tease out the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which Asian-Americans give up parts of themselves in order to move forward. . . . Fortunately for us, he’s not afraid to speak up about it.”—The New Yorker

“Huang connects in Chengdu the same way he assimilated in America—through food, hip-hop and a never-ending authenticity, which readers experience through his hilarious writing voice and style.”—New York Daily News - (Random House, Inc.)

Eddie Huang is the proprietor of Baohaus, a restaurant in New York City. He’s also the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Fresh Off the Boat (now an ABC sitcom) and the host of Huang’s World on ViceTV. - (Random House, Inc.)

Booklist Reviews

Readers first met Huang, a celebrity chef and co-owner of BaoHaus, a sandwich shop in Manhattan, and his idiosyncratic Taiwanese American family in Fresh off the Boat (2013), now a television series. The peripatetic author returns in a chronicle that is part travelogue, part memoir, and all together deeply personal. Huang recounts how he enlisted two brothers to accompany him on a trip of self-exploration in China. His goal is to open a pop-up restaurant in Chengdu, a large, modern city in Southwest China, to see if his food appeals to the modern Chinese palette. Other concerns, such as love, are on his mind. Huang is excited to show his visiting girlfriend his family's ancestral "Mothership." Wanting to please his parents, but serious about his non-Asian girlfriend, Huang talks with his mom about marrying Dena. She responds in her quirky way, "So silly! Your dad Chinese, he the worst. Ha ha." Huang's reaction to this revelation is surprising but not out of character. Anyone who likes Huang from his other ventures will enjoy hearing his hip-hop-inflected voice on these pages. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.

Kirkus Reviews

BaoHaus celebrity chef Huang (Fresh Off the Boat, 2012) returns with a fresh mélange of hip-hop patter, Chengdu street cuisine, and Asian-American identity politics. Can a politically charged, wildly successful chef find love and happiness in the new millennium? The author was determined to find out after bumping into Dena at a popular bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But before he could take that leap into the foreign land of commitment, he decided that he had to address something else that had been eating at him for a while. Sure, he has been able to conquer hipster palates with his Taiwanese steamed buns, but what Huang truly hungers to know is what Chinese people living in the homeland think of his cooking: "I'm Chinese, but I grew up in America. What if I'm a fraud?" With his romance with Dena still blossoming, Huang corralled his brothers and headed for China. His initial impression of the city of Chengdu isn't necessarily appetizing, but it's vivid: "a disgusting mu mmy lair accented with a touch of pre-Cory Booker Newark, neatly encased in a delicious cocoon of coal smog…the views are so spectacularly putrid that it makes West Philly feel like Queen Anne's world." Huang possesses a fiery descriptive flair capable of splicing disparate cultural references with the acuity of a yakitori grill master: "Paris'll put you to bed with butter and burgundy; Houston'll drip it up in au jus and drape it out with horseradish; and Chengdu'll set your mouth on fire, then extinguish it with Newport [cigarettes] guts." The lingo is dense and can veer wildly from delicate descriptions of the author's all-time culinary favorites to his decidedly eccentric bathroom habits. But when he reaches full boil, Huang's exchanges between family and friends can be laugh-out-loud funny. Once fully communed with his Chinese roots, Huang realized that he needed Dena by his side, and what began in Brooklyn finally came to fruition in China. A challenging author c o ntinues to bravely bare his soul along with his best dishes. Copyright Kirkus 2016 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Reviews

Proprietor of the New York City restaurant Baohaus, author of the best-selling memoir Fresh off the Boat, executive producer of the ABC hit show based on that book, and host of ViceTV's Huang's World, picked up by HBO for fall 2015, Huang started wondering just how true his Chinese identity really was. So he got brothers Emery and Evan to travel with him to China, where he reconnected with his heritage and opened his own stand to see whether his food measured up. Here he argues not for an American melting pot but a grand mosaic.

Publishers Weekly Reviews

Huang gives readers another punch of passion in his second memoir (after 2013's massively successful FreshOff the Boat). With his gift for conversation, edgy humor, and deeply knowledgeable palate, readers get a sense of a young chef on a serious quest. As Huang finds love, he continues to wrestle with his family and the business, discovering a nagging ache that calls him back to the motherland. Yearning to discover whether his cooking will satisfy foodies in China—not just the flock of fans at his ever-popular N.Y.C. restaurant, Baohaus—he tests the waters in Chengdu and cooks his heart out. "Something about it was the same, but different, as if the spirits circling me had been present all along but were suddenly visible." Through an endless stream of hilarious basketball metaphors, pop culture one-liners, and what Huang affectionately calls "Chinglish," his passion for food and determination to get things right—in the U.S., in China, and in his heart of hearts—mark every page. Agent: Marc Gerald, Agency Group Talent. (May)