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

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.

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

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

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.