Eddie Huang wants to be writing. But at the moment, he’s sitting in the upstairs dining room at downtown lounge Flower Shop , getting ready to head back into the kitchen for evening service.

“I’ll say this: writing’s my favorite thing to do, but when all I do is write, I overthink it,” says Huang. “Cooking is the hard hat activity that I need.”

It’s Wednesday afternoon, the day after the official launch of Huang’s new menu for the Flower Shop. But for regulars in the know, his menu is already in rotation. “The friends and family dinner we did two weeks ago went so well that we were like — wait,” says Huang. “We all just decided to soft open it, and just stay with it.”

On Oct. 30, Huang detailed the new menu in an issue of his Substack, Canal Street Dreams. Subject line? “The Flower Sh

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