Ming Tsai

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Ming Tsai

Born	March 29, 1964 Newport Beach, California
Cooking style	Chinese
Education	Cordon Bleu
Restaurants	Blue Ginger (Wellesley)
TV Show(s)	East Meets West, Ming’s Quest, Simply Ming

Ming Tsai (born March 29, 1964) is a Chinese American fusion cuisine chef and restaurateur who currently hosts two cooking shows – Ming's Quest on the Fine Living television channel and Simply Ming on American Public Television – and formerly hosted East Meets West on the Food Network, for which he won an Emmy Award. He has also appeared as a challenger chef on the Food Network's Iron Chef America beating Iron Chef Bobby Flay in "Battle Duck" and was a judge for Cooking Under Fire on the PBS network.

In 1998, Tsai along with his wife Polly, opened his first restaurant, Blue Ginger, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and he is the author of three cookbooks, Blue Ginger, Simply Ming, and Ming's Master Recipes.

During the summer of 2004, Ming Tsai participated in a "Zoom Out" on ZOOM, a show sponsored by PBS. In addition, Ming Tsai has been a guest star on the PBS children's television show Arthur.

Ming recently guest starred on an episode of Top Chef.

[edit] Education

Tsai is a Dayton, Ohio native (his family having moved there from Newport Beach, California), where he graduated from The Miami Valley School. He grew up working with his parents in their family restaurant, Mandarin Kitchen. From Dayton, Ming also attended Phillips Andover Academy and Yale University where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. Later, he received a master's degree in hotel administration and hospitality marketing from Cornell University.

[edit] Trivia

• Ming Tsai's Chinese name is 蔡明昊 (Pinyin: Cài Mínghào).

• In his PBS show Simply Ming, Chef Ming often uses ceramic cooking knives manufactured by Kyocera.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Simply Ming website
• Food Network Bio: Ming Tsai
• Biography at Cooking Under Fire website
• [1] at Internet Movie Database