Ming Tsai is a renowned American chef and restaurateur, who has been in the cooking and hospitality world for nearly three decades now. He is not only a celebrity chef but also an award-winning television personality.
He appeared in several shows like 'The Tony Danza Show,' 'The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,' 'The Best Thing I Ever Ate,' and 'The Chew.' He won Daytime Emmy Award in 1999 for Outstanding Service Show Host for East Meets West with Ming Tsai.
Tsai, who competed on the third season of the Food Network reality TV series 'The Next Iron Chef,' is now a member of the Culinary Hall of Fame.
Ming Tsai Married Life With Wife Polly Talbott
Ming Tsai is currently married to his longtime wife, Polly Talbott. The lovebirds tied a knot in April 1996 and are together for twenty-five years.
In the course of their nearly two and a half-decade of married life, Ming and Polly Talbott welcomed a couple of children, namely, David and Henry.
Ming Tsai and his wife, Polly Talbott (©: FamousChefs)
Ming Tsai and Polly Talbott first met during the squash sport event of Mark Talbott and David Talbott, Tsai's brothers-in-law. And since then, the lovely couple is together and inseparable.
Tsai's wife, Talbott, is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, which he revealed at the California Spirit 33 Gourmet Garden Party. She is under treatment that requires $17,000 of a pill every month.
Ming Tsai's Net Worth
Ming Tsai, who is known as an American restaurateur, television personality, and celebrity chef, has a net worth of $10 million.
The Blue Ginger, in Wellesley, Massachusetts is Tsai's first restaurant, which he opened back in 1998. The Blue Ginger is an Asian Fusion restaurant that has become a Zagat and James Beard-recognised establishment. Similarly, in the same year (1998), he was named ''Chef of the Year" by Esquire Magazine.
Later, Tsai opened a mini-restaurant named Blue Ginger Noodle Bar inside Blue Ginger. However, he had to close the restaurant in June 2017, after nineteen years of service due to the expiry of a lease and Tsai's focus on a new fast-casual stir-fry concept restaurant, ChowStirs.
Ming Tsai as a chef (©: Eater)
Also, he is the owner of Blue Dragon, which he opened in 2013 in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston.
Besides that, Ming Tsai is a cookbook author, who has published numerous cookbooks including Blue Ginger: East Meets West Cooking, Simply Ming One Meal Pots, Simple Meal Asian Watch, Simply One-Pot Asian Meals 80, and many more.