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Eddie Huang

The Fresh Off the Boat author, Baohaus chef and Viceland TV host is back with a new book, Double Cup Love, about his international quest for romance

As someone who has prepared actual Chinese food, what do you make of American Chinese food? Any country you travel to has their own Chinese food, and they all have the same things. They hit on a matrix. Every single dish—whether it’s kung pao chicken, General Tso’s chicken, orange chicken—you have acid from vinegar, heat from chilies, sugar, soy, which has umami, and then it’s usually fried. It’s

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