Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China

In the follow-up to his bestselling coming-of-age memoir Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit show on ABC, celebrity chef Eddie Huang tells a powerful story about love and family and what really makes us who we are. After growing up in a wild first-generation immigrant family in the comically hostile world of suburban America, Huang begins to wonder just how authentic his Chinese identity really is. So he enlists his brothers Emery and Evan and returns to the country his ancestors abandoned. His immediate goal is to sample China’s best food and see if his cooking measures up to local tastes—but his deeper goals are to reconnect with his homeland, repair his frayed family relationships, decide whether to marry his all-American (well, all-Italian-American) girlfriend, and figure out just where to find meaning in his life.

Eddie Huang is the world’s first and only Human Panda. He splits time between Brooklyn and Malibu, playing basketball and boogie boarding. Cam’ron is his favorite rapper, soup dumplings are his favorite food, and Kristaps Porzingis is his favorite basketball player. This year he listened to a lot of Future. He also likes the Washington Redskins but thinks they should change their name. His online dating profile reads, “Single Asiatic male seeks ride or die chick.”