Huang, in addition to thinking up ways to make the salon better known and to expand his wife's business, has as his current chief occupation becoming skilled in taking care of their child, boiling formula and changing diapers. Although only at it for a year, he is already the model of what essayist and cultural critic Lung Ying-tai has called the "Shanghai man."
黃民宗除了想辦法幫太太打響工作室名氣、拓展業務外，現階段的主要工作是帶小孩，泡牛奶、換尿布樣樣熟練，雖然才來一年，卻已頗有作家龍應台筆下「上海男人」的架勢。