'Fresh Off The Boat' Slammed By Eddie Huang For Being 'Far Off The Truth'; Chef Said ABC Series Features Asian Stereotypes

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The ABC comedy series "Fresh Off the Boat" might have been a hit for some, but not for Eddie Huang- the Taiwanese-Chinese-American chef and author of the memoir of the same title, which the show is "very loosely" based on.

"For the record, I don't watch 'Fresh Off the Boat' on ABC," he tweeted.

"I'm happy people of color are able to see a reflection of themselves through 'Fresh Off the Boat' ... but I don't recognize it," he added.

Eddie Huang even went far as saying that "Fresh Off the Boat" went "so far from the truth that [he] don't recognize [his] own life."

"I don't think it is helping us to perpetuate an artificial representation of Asian American lives and we should address it," he added.

This is not the first time that Huang has spoken against the sitcom. Back in January, he wrote a piece for New York Magazine, airing his criticism and frustration in how inaccurate the show depicted life as an Asian. He added that the series turned his specific life experiences into a stereotypical story about Asian-Americans.

"I didn't understand how network television, the one-size fits-all antithesis to 'Fresh Off the Boat', was going to house the voice of a futuristic chinkstronaut," he said.

Eddie Huang even said that he regret selling his memoir.

"[The memori] 'Fresh Off the Boat' was a very specific narrative about SPECIFIC moments in my life, such as kneeling in a driveway holding buckets of rice overhead or seeing pink nipples for the first time."

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Eddie Huang also shared that "Fresh Off the Boat" refused to show his struggles as a child, which was mentioned in his memoir. When he was younger, his brother and parents were taken away due to the issue of domestic violence.

"I understand this is a comedy but the great comics speak from pain: Pryor, Rock, Louis... This show had that opportunity but it fails," he tweeted.

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