Ming Tsai
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Ming Tsai (born March 29, 1964) is an American restaurateur, television presenter, and celebrity chef.
Tsai's restaurants have concentrated on East-West Fusion cuisine, with major stakes in Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Massachusetts, from 1998 to 2017 (a Zagat-recognized establishment) and the Blue Dragon in Boston's Fort Point Channel area (a Zagat-recognized gastropub named in Esquire Magazine's "Best New Restaurants 2013" (a Zagat-recognized gastropub). Simply Ming, a cooking show on American Public Television, is in its 15th season.
"Ming's Quest, a cooking show on the Fine Living Network, and "East Meets West" were among the past shows hosted by Tsai.
Tsai competed in the Food Network cooking competition The Next Iron Chef (2010).
Early life and education
Clayton was born in Newport Beach, California, United States, to Iris (née Lee), who owned a Chinese restaurant, and Stephen Tsai, an engineer, and was raised in Dayton, Ohio, where he attended The Miami Valley School. After escaping China during the Cultural Revolution, Tsai's maternal grandparents later emigrated to Dayton, Taiwan. He helped with the cooking while growing up in the restaurant, Mandarin Kitchen, which was owned by his mother. Tsai's uncle Lauren Tsai and Chinese composer Lee Pao-Chen are a grandson and uncle of Lauren Tsai.
Tsai later attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then went on to study electronics and play varsity squash at Yale University. He served as a member of the Phi chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity in 1988 and obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. In 1989, he earned a master's degree in hotel administration and hospitality marketing from Cornell University. He attended culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris in the summer after his sophomore or junior years at Yale. Tsai has four languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, French, and Spanish.
Personal life
Since being married in April 1996, Tsai and Polly Talbott have been married. David and Henry, their two sons, are there. Mark Talbott, Yale's squash coach, and David Talbott, a former World No. 1, are among the Yale squash coach and Mark Talbott. Tsai's brothers-in-law are one of a hardball squash player. Lauren Tsai, his niece, is a fan of the film. Tsai, a 116th-generation descendant of Qin Shi Huang (259 BC – 210 BC), founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a united China, according to Henry Louis Gates' PBS series Finding Your Roots.
Tsai was a squash player at Yale, playing number two for the team, and was named as an All-Ivy League player in 1986. Tsai played competitively on the European circuit while attending culinary school in France. At a Boston squash club in 2004, Tsai played a celebrity squash match against professional golfer Brad Faxon. In 2005, he defeated Mark Talbott in a charity match held at a squash club in San Francisco.
One of Tsai's sons has food allergies, and Tsai has become a food allergy advocate who promotes food allergy research. He has been a national spokesperson for Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), and in December 2012, he was given a lifetime achievement award for his advocacy work from the group, as well as his efforts on the state of Massachusetts' food safety legislation. Tsai is currently President of the National Advisory Board for Family Reach, an organization that offers a financial lifeline to families living with cancer.
Career
Tsai began his television appearance on chef Sara Moulton's cooking show Cooking Live, although she had him fill in for one week in 1997. On the Food Network, he hosted East Meets West from 1998 to 2003. On PBS, he hosts Simply Ming, a food show.
He appeared on PBS' Cooking Under Fire in 2005. In the sixth episode of Iron Chef America's season one, Ming Tsai confronted Iron Chef Bobby Flay; Tsai defeated Flay. In 2010, Tsai was a contestant in The Next Iron Chef, where he was disqualified in the seventh week. In 2014, Tsai appeared on an episode of Top Chef.
His other television appearances include appearances in a Zoom Out on Zoom, a PBS show that was released in 2005, and a PBS children's television show Arthur.
Tsai and Polly Talbott opened Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1998. An Asian Fusion restaurant, Blue Ginger, has become a Zagat and James Beard-recognized establishment, winning many other national accolades as well. Esquire Magazine named Tsai as "Chef of the Year" the year the restaurant opened. Within Blue Ginger, Tsai opened Blue Ginger Noodle Bar, a mini-restaurant. After 19 years of operation, Tsai closed Blue Ginger in June 2017. The reason was due to the termination of a lease and Tsai's attention on ChowStirs, a new fast-casual stir-fry concept restaurant, which is expected to open in Boston in the early part of 2018.
In 2013, Tsai opened Blue Dragon, an east-west tapas-style gastropub that has earned the award of the Esquire Magazine's "Best New Restaurant" in its inaugural year.
In 2020, Tsai began a B-B at the Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana, as chef and partner.
Tsai is the author of five cookbooks: Blue Ginger, Simply Ming, Ming's Master Recipes, Simply Ming, Ming's Master Recipes, Simply Ming, One-Pot Meals, and Simply Ming in Your Kitchen.
In 1999, Tsai received the Daytime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Service Show Host. In 2012, Tsai's Blue Ginger Restaurant was inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame. Ming was on the People's Most Beautiful People list in 2000.