Taylor Takahashi has a hell of an origin story. Just five years ago, he moved from his Bay Area hometown of Alameda to Orange County to work as a personal trainer.
After about a year, the ex-high school basketball star missed playing hoops, so he joined a recreation league in Monterey Park in L.A.'s San Gabriel Valley.
To his surprise, one of his teammates was Eddie Huang. Takahashi, 28, was a fan of the chef turned TV personality's Vice show, Huang's World, and the two ended up bonding over their shared passions for basketball and cooking (Takahashi was also working part time as a yakitori chef at a Japanese restaurant).
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