also got SHITCANNED from NY BIGLAW, sold dope and did standup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Huang

Eddie Huang was born March 1, 1982 in Washington, D.C., to immigrant parents from Taiwan. He was raised in Orlando, Florida, where his father managed a successful group of steak and seafood restaurants.[2] Huang identified with African-American culture, especially hip-hop, at a young age.[2] He attended The University of Pittsburgh and Rollins College, and graduated with a B.A. He earned a J.D. from Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University).[3]

Not long after graduating from law school, Huang decided for a career change. After being laid off from a New York law firm, Huang worked as a stand-up comic and as a marijuana dealer.[4] He was interested in food as he had grown up watching his mother cook at home. He learned management from his father, who also opened restaurants.[5]

In December 2009, he opened BaoHaus, a Taiwanese bun (割包) shop, on the Lower East Side of New York. In July 2011, he relocated his first shop to 238 East 14th Street in East Village with an expanded menu.[6] Another restaurant, Xiao Ye, was less successful and closed after controversy over its sales of Four Loko.[7] He created a blog called Fresh Off the Boat and later published a memoir with Random House by the same name.[8] Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir was released in early 2013, with Publisher's Weekly noting: "Brash, leading-edge, and unapologetically hip, Huang reconfigures the popular foodie memoir into something worthwhile and very memorable." Publisher's Weekly[9] Fresh Off the Boat hit the NY Times Bestseller list at #33 its first week. New York Times[10] In 2014, ABC ordered a television series based on his book, also called Fresh Off the Boat, starring Randall Park and Constance Wu, with Hudson Yang playing Eddie.

He hosted Cheap Bites on the Cooking Channel at the end of 2011 and also appeared on several episodes of Unique Eats before leaving the Cooking Channel for Vice where he hosts a recurring segment, also called "Fresh Off the Boat".[2] Also in 2012, Huang was named a 2013 TED Fellow.[4] Yet he later had his TED fellowship revoked for not attending every event of the conference, per the fellowship agreement. He went on to compare TED to a "Scientology summer camp".[11][12] In 2011 he made the Chow 13[13] and was voted one of the 101 People You Must Meet in 2011 by Town and Country magazine.[citation needed] In 2014 he host a cooking reality show called Snack-Off

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2628138&forum_id=2#26002405)

how can he have memoirs already

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2628138&forum_id=2#26002509)

In 2005, Huang moved to New York to study at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. “You figure getting a professional degree can’t possibly put you in a shittier place than you were previously, but that’s a misconception,” writes Huang, who estimates the three-year experience cost him about $200,000 — money he says he is still paying off.

But that same fall of 2008, when Huang started to climb the corporate ladder at Chadbourne & Parke, the stock market began to plummet. Confronted with the strain of a global financial crisis, most big law firms like Chadbourne started to inform the last attorneys through their doors, like Huang, that they would be the first to exit.

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