Ming Tsai is a Chinese-American fusion cuisine chef, restaurateur, and Emmy Award-winning television personality. Tsai currently hosts Ming's Quest, a cooking show featured on the Fine Living Network, and Simply Ming on American Public Television. He was eliminated in week 7 of the third season of the Food Network's cooking competition, The Next Iron Chef. Tsai was born in California, but raised in Dayton, Ohio, where he attended The Miami Valley School. He often helped his parents Stephen and Iris with their family restaurant, Mandarin Kitchen. Ming's maternal grandfather is the renowned... Chinese conductor Dr. Baochen Li; his paternal grandfather graduated from the Department of Economics at Peking University. Tsai's uncle and brother are mechanical engineers. His father, Dr. Stephen W. Tsai, born in Beijing and an alumnus of Yale University , is a Professor Research Emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University. Tsai transferred to Phillips Academy and later Yale University where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering.
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