The first time Eddie Huang’s Florida childhood was memorialized on television, the results were mixed. ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” based on his memoir of growing up Taiwanese-American in Orlando, Fla., was a critical and commercial success. Mr. Huang wrote and said unkind things about the show, however, and left his role as its off-camera narrator after one season.

Now he gets a do-over. He has his own television show, the food-and-travel series “Huang’s World” beginning Thursday night on Viceland, and to promote it, a preview episode shot in Orlando has been online for a week. It’s definitely R-rated — language, drug use, violence to farm animals — and it never mentions the ABC show. (All the lawyers can exhale.) But in spirit, they’re not far apart.

Mr. Huang’s public pose is based on ego, attitude and hip-hop-flavored rebelliousness, but when he makes his annual trip home for Chinese New Year in “Huang’s World,” he’s largely the picture of filial piety. His father, Louis, who’s not exactly portrayed as a model parent in the memoir, is an amiable and supportive dad onscreen. His mother, Jessica, is sharp and funny, like the character Constance Wu has popularized in “Fresh Off the Boat.” Mr. Huang dives into the New Year preparations, smoking one duck while his mom fries another.

Is this the real Huang family dynamic? Who knows. It looks convincing, which is all that matters, and its fits with the larger persona Mr. Huang is trying to project. Smart, thoughtful and a shrewd fashioner of his own image as a food and cultural authority, he keeps his rebellion within firm limits. He and his brother may get high after the holiday feast, but when he makes a visit to a truly transgressive place — the backwoods den of guns and strippers known as the Sausage Factory — he closes the scene by lecturing the proprietor about exploiting vulnerable people.