Don’t even think about ditching your legal career — unless you know you’ll be supersuccessful in your dream pursuit. Because if you’re not, your mom — especially if she’s (forgive the stereotype) Asian — will come after you. And she’ll probably be reminding you of that Big Mistake for the rest of your life.
That’s what Eddie Huang, a former Chadbourne & Parke associate turned hip-hop chef, has been experiencing since The New York Times gave his too-cool restaurant XiaoYe a mediocre review. Reviewer Sam Sifton calls the Taiwanese eatery, “an artful misfire: the sort of place that … is really only best when the customers are a little drunk, a little high, maybe both, and in any event extremely hungry.” (Check out Salon.com for Huang’s defiant reaction to the review.)
