{"id":2905,"date":"2010-03-18T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2010-03-18T21:25:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:25:21","slug":"why-i-relate-to-ming-tsai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/why-i-relate-to-ming-tsai\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Relate to Ming Tsai"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ming<\/p>\n

Did a fundraiser with Ming Tsai<\/a> at Blue Ginger for the AAJA New England chapter on March 11. We even got a little write-up in the Names section<\/a> of the Boston Globe (scroll all the way down. Last item.) Above: Ming preparing his special soba sushi recipe.<\/p>\n

I spent a lot of time with Ming in my book research, and as I write in my book, he’s the one I met along my journeys that I most related to.<\/p>\n

As I write in my book:<\/p>\n

In one of our conversations, Ming told me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If I can give my kids at least what my parents gave me, then that is definition of a true success.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

I reflected on his words, concluding what his parents gave him was what set him apart from so many of the Chinese people in the restaurant industry I had met. Many Chinese cooks had told me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We cook so our children won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ming cooked because he wanted to, not because he had to. <\/p>\n

Likewise, I write because I want to.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is why I dedicated the book to my parents and all the other parents out there who traveled across oceans so their children could follow their dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did a fundraiser with Ming Tsai at Blue Ginger for the AAJA New England chapter on March 11. We even got a little write-up in the Names section of the Boston Globe (scroll all the way down. Last item.) Above: Ming preparing his special soba sushi recipe. I spent a lot of time with Ming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food","tag-ming-tsai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-KR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}