Eddie Huang Hangs Loose in the World's Most Perfectly Relaxed Underwear Ads

The chef is no Justin Bieber, and that's the point

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Eddie Huang didn’t see himself as a likely candidate to be an underwear model.

“My manager told me, ‘They want to put billboards of your husky ass in their underwear,’ ” says the chef and food personality in a new video. “I couldn’t believe it.”

Nonetheless, Huang is gracing a series of ads for online skivvies seller MeUndies, as a part of his “Pandamonium” collaboration with the subscription-based retailer—featuring panda-print intimates for men and women, playing on his own branding as “The

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