Evan Huang’s personal life
Evan Huang was born in 1987. He is the last-born child of the Huang family. He is famous as the younger brother of Eddie Huang. Emery and Evan, however, have been busy investing in real estate and recently branched into tech startups.
Before World War II, the Huang brothers’ paternal relatives amassed a railroad fortune but lost it all during the Japanese invasion of Nanjing. They escaped to Chongqing and began rebuilding their wealth through real estate, but were forced to flee to Taiwan during the Chinese Communist Revolution, losing everything once again.
Meanwhile, their maternal grandparents had also fled from China to Taiwan to escape the Japanese army. Though they had worked in banking before, they survived in Taipei by selling steamed buns on the street for several years until getting jobs in a textile plant, eventually opening their curtain and upholstery fabric factory.
All three brothers gained business experience by working on BaoHaus, the popular restaurant chain Eddie launched on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2009. Emery and Evan were helping their parents prepare for retirement by exiting the restaurant business and they began investing the family’s assets in real estate, brokering deals between Chinese investment groups and New York City property owners before deciding to branch into tech. Here we will discuss his brother’s successful career.
Evan Huang’s brother, Eddie Huang
is an American author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and former attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan Huang previously hosted Huang’s World for Viceland. His autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat A Memoir, was adapted into the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, of which he narrated the first season.
After graduating from law school, Huang worked as a corporate attorney at the law firm Chadbourne & Parke in New York City. He worked as a summer associate in 2006 and 2007, then was hired as an associate in the firm’s corporate department in 2008. Within a year, due to the financial crisis of 2007- 08, Huang was laid off, and began working as a stand-up comic and marijuana dealer from 2006 to 2009, Huang ran a streetwear company called “Hoodman Clothing” initially called “Bergdorf Hoodman 5 At Hoodman, Huang co-created clothing designs with Art Director Ning Juang, a graphic designer whom he had met in Taiwan –
Huang was also interested in food as he had grown up watching his mother cook at home. He also learned cooking techniques from various chefs of different cultural backgrounds and cuisine styles who worked at his father’s restaurants. He learned management and how to be a good expeditor Working as an expeditor was a skill he learned from his father in 2011. Huang was named to the Chow 13, a list of influential people in food presented annually by Chow.com. Huang created the blog called Fresh Off the Boat and later published a memoir with Random House by the same name.
