Celebrity Chef Eddie Huang Wants To Bring Baohaus To Chinatown

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — Celebrity chef Eddie Huang wants to bring his restaurant Bauhaus to Chinatown, and the company behind the restaurant is seeking approval for its Chinatown plans from a local liquor license board on Monday night.

Huang currently operates a Bauhaus in the East Village and another Los Angeles. He first announced his plans for a Chinatown restaurant on Instagram in July. The restaurant is looking to open at 48 Bowery.

Huang opened the first Baohaus outpost with his brother Evan in the Lower East Side in 2009. The LES location was followed by a larger space in the East Village, at 238 E. 14th St., before the Huang brothers decided to close the original location in 2011.

The chef and media personality became famous through Bauhaus, which opened to critical acclaim, as well as his blog "Fresh Off the Boat," which he later developed as a best-selling memoir in 2013. The book inspired an ABC sitcom of the same name. Huang also produced and starred in the Viceland series "Huang's World." Huang also opened the short-lived restaurant Xiao Ye in 2010, which was shuttered after offering all-you-can-drink Four Loco specials, after which state liquor authorities raided the restaurant for selling alcohol to undercover agents with fake IDs.

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