Ming Hao Tsai (Chinese: 蔡明昊; pinyin: Cài Mínghào; born 1964) is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality and a former squash player.
Tsai's restaurants have focused on east–west fusion cuisine, and have included major stakes in Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Massachusetts (a Zagat- and James Beard-recognized establishment) from 1998 to 2017, and Blue Dragon in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston (a Zagat-recognized tapas-style gastropub named in Esquire Magazine "Best New Restaurants 2013").
Tsai hosts Simply Ming, a cooking show featured on American Public Television, in its seventeenth season.
[7] Tsai later attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then proceeded to study engineering and play varsity squash at Yale University.
[4][5] There, he was a member of the Phi chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity,[8] and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1986.
[9] Either the summer after his sophomore or junior year at Yale, he attended culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.
Blue Ginger, an Asian Fusion restaurant,[13] has become a Zagat[17] and James Beard-recognized establishment,[18][19] winning many other regional awards as well.
The reason was due to the end of a lease and Tsai's focus on a new fast-casual stir-fry concept restaurant, ChowStirs, scheduled to open in Boston during the early part of 2018.
[18] Tsai won the Daytime Emmy award in 1999, in the category Outstanding Service Show Host.
[37] Tsai was heavily featured on Season 1, Episode 5 of Netflix’s “Rotten” discussing his thoughts and observations on the restaurant industry; specifically about food-allergic individuals being able to dine out safely.