Why Fresh Off the Boat aired an episode that was about 50% in Mandarin

The Hollywood Reporter

Jeff Chiang says of writing tonight’s episode: “Working as a TV writer, I never thought there would be a primetime network sitcom centered on an Asian family. The fact that I get to work on it and pull so directly from my childhood, being a half-Chinese kid raised in a Mandarin-speaking household, is still hard to wrap my head around.”