'Fresh Off The Boat' is a show that is one of a kind. It broke boundaries for Asian-Americans everywhere, and to hear that the show was canceled and that the sixth season would be the final season was devastating. For many viewers, it was always more than just a comedic sitcom that followed the Huangs, a Taiwanese-American family who moved from Chinatown of Washington D.C. to Orlando, Florida, but a real reflection of the experiences my own family and I faced.

In the pilot episode, there is a scene where Eddie Huang, the eldest son, is invited to sit with the "cooler kids" at the lunch table on his first day of school. They began bonding over their similar music interest for The Notorious B.I.G., but after Eddie opens his mom's culturally homemade food that she packed for him, the entire table is disgusted and before exiling him from the table, the uncultured ringleader of the table says:

"Ying Ding's eating worms!"

I wasn't exactly called a "Ying Ding" in elementary school but whenever I brought my mom's homemade Thai food, a comment along those lines would be made, followed by the looks of disgust that was clearly evident my lunches were not accepted. Like Eddie, I begged my mom for the lunches that every kid seems to bring, Lunchables.

It was this very scene that won my heart.

There's a comforting feeling to see yourself and the experiences you've faced represented in a positive manner in media. 'Fresh Off The Boat' didn't air until 2015 and before then, the only representation I found myself viewing in media were characters that seem to fit the stereotypical roles; the geek, the martial arts expert, etc. I wasn't Christina Yang from 'Grey's Anatomy' or ironically London Tipton from 'The Suite Life of Zach and Cody,' I was just your average kid living a slightly different cultural lifestyle.

At the time, there wasn't any show on television that I felt represented or resonated with me. 'Fresh Off The Boat' was the first to show me and the rest of their audience watching that the Asian-American community can be positively represented in lead media roles too. It wasn't just the lunch scene, but the continuous cultural references, pop culture references, and comical references that made this show as good as it was. Saying goodbye to a show as impactful as this is like mourning a good friendship; you're sad that it's over, but you're happy for what came out of it.