
Because Tsai grew up around cooking, it was only natural he would gravitate back to it - eventually launching his award-winning restaurant Blue Ginger, in addition to multiple cookbooks, and his Emmy-nominated show "Simply Ming."Įvery story starts somewhere, and as Ming Tsai told Mashed during a recent interview, the central narrative of his life story started in the kitchen of the restaurant his parents opened in Dayton, Ohio, called Mandarin Kitchen. That degree in mechanical engineering from Tsai earned from Yale? Just a quick blip on the radar. To look at the career of Chef Ming Tsai today, and you'd never think he considered doing anything with his professional life other than pursing his passion for the culinary arts.
