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All that time, my fears - about identity and family and love - were misplaced. It isn't acceptance that extinguishes us, instead, it awakens us.

don't pick on people who were already being picked on.

Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.

Revenge is always expensive, but you get what you pay for.

No matter how hard the Man tries to sterilize us, I take solace in the fact that that we can't be erased.

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

I don't do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

If my mom was made, you'd hear wild and crazy Chinese. If it was my dad, he got his white man voice on.

Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money.

Good food makes me want to hit a punching bag like, Dat's right motherfucker. You done did it there.

I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

These white people like really mushy food.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

The show is easy when there aren't real feelings behind it.

Asians don't use the oven for anything but holding Jordans.

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

In America, we're allowed to play ONE role, the eunuch who can count.

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

I suddenly realized that converting to white wouldn't be easy, but still, that toilet paper was like silk.

I blog because I have something to say.

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

I gave up trying to find friends at college and befriended dead people between the margins.

If you grow up in an immigrant culture, there are going to be foods you eat that other people just don't get.

We weren't Americans like everyone else. We'd always be the other in this bullshit country.

Money had them under a spell. Once they spent the money on a problem, they never thought about it again.

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.

Style isn't an excuse to cook without a standard. Style just determines the set of rules you choose.

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

Rice in Taiwan, unlike America, doesn't always come out soggy and limp.

Patience, attention, and restraint are the keys to good cooking.

Bankers make money, too, but I'm not running up into Chase and throwing milk shakes at the homie selling subprime mortgages.

America ain't three fifths bad.

Chinese people questioned my yellowness because I was born in America. Then white people questioned my identity as an American because I was yellow.

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

The reason we use all natural, hormone-free, antibiotic-free Berkshire pork belly, beef, and chicken is that it's the right thing to do.

When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

That's the confidence that New York gave me. There was finally a city that appreciated what I had to say and the honesty with which I said it.

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

...don't borrow money from people, but if other people need it from you lend it to them, as long as it's inconsequential.

I wanted to get free. (129)