• Video: Eddie Huang's Fresh Off The Boat Is Returning This Month

    Chef, writer and speaker Eddie Huang is returning to VICE with a second season of his critically acclaimed food and travel series Fresh Off the Boat. Season Two will take viewers on a cavernous dive into cities around the world undergoing rapid transitions. The Taiwanese personality – and chef/owner of New York’s popular Baohaus –…
  • Video: Eddie Huang And Tom Colicchio Go Fishing For One-Liners

    [embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/9L3I7PDPO7I] “Rachael Ray or Paula Deen? I’m an ass man, so I’m going Paula Deen.” Chef/TV guy Eddie Huang is on a boat somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean being interviewed by Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio as part of his new Reserve Channel fishing show Hooked Up. It’s a really entertaining exchange — Tom goes…
  • Big Weekend: Southern Foodways Alliance Keeps The Fires Burning, Pits Smoldering

    Barbecue aficionados and Southern food enthusiasts descended upon Mississippi this past weekend for the Southern Foodways Alliance’s 15th annual Symposium, a four day event of learning, food and fellowship that left attendees reaching for their gout medication. A small group kicked off the proceedings on Thursday in Greenwood, MS at Viking Corp’s luxurious Alluvian resort…
  • It's A Big Week For Celebrating The Best Asian Cuisine In America

    Well, this headline is a little misleading. Every week is a good week to celebrate mapo tofu or green curry clam chowder — and possibly try it for the first time. If you’ve been reading Food Republic for a while, you know the editors are crazy for Korean barbecue, Vietnamese pho and the ridiculously fresh…
  • Hey Chef, What Was Your First Concert?

    This weekend’s Great GoogaMooga food and music festival in Brooklyn's Prospect Park looks like it should be graced with good weather, music from Hall & Oates, Holy Ghost and The Roots, and food from dozens of local restaurants. Plus, beer and wine pavilions, coffee cupping, pizza (Joe’s Pizza, represent!) and performances and parties hosted by…
  • Brooklyn: The Great GoogaMooga Is Alive!

    Announced with a name that makes you smile just to say it, there are now some firm details about New York City’s largest food festival ever. It's called The Great GoogaMooga. It’s going down in Brooklyn's Prospect Park May 19-20. There will be bands. There will be over 75 restaurants on site. We’ll be there…
  • Video: Eddie Huang's Hoop Dreams

    We were checking out the website for NYC’s Nike-endorsed private basketball league Masaryk and noticed our dude Eddie Huang was a member. Here's the full squad. And upon further review, we found this clip of Eddie talking hoops. According to Huang, his game is more Mark Jackson than Jeremy Lin. [Might and Wonder]
  • Talking With Eddie Huang

    “I’m not a chef, I am a cook,” explains Eddie Huang as he assembles an order of his wildly popular Haus Bao: Taiwanese steamed bun sandwich filled with braised all natural hanger steak. “I was never formally trained or even worked under another chef, I learned my skills from watching my mom and experimenting in…