I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.

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.

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.