the
new year celebrated by over a billion people worldwide,
just marked the beginning of the year of the rabbit.
So we have ming Tsai chef and longtime host of
simply ming joining us in studio to celebrate me,
Thanks so much for
earlier with us this morning and bringing us tons of smells such good food
to as we say,
what is your favorite lunar new year tradition that you do?
You know like thanksgiving
chinese new year is based on food,
so they're the two best holidays.
So you always like dumplings here, we're actually doing bing
bing is a traditional dim sum item because it looks like the size of an ingot of gold.
The whole idea is you want to bring wealth and prosperity and good luck into your,
into your new year.
So you eat stuff like green leafy vegetables because
vegetables are the color of money noodles because noodles,
there's rice noodles for longevity, you wanna have a nice long year,
but specifically like for example a dumpling is a single bing,
This has been cut in half of you are done double fortune dumplings
and if you eat
fortune you're going to have fortune, then quite traditional.
You also give, here you go red envelope,
usually for Children usually filled with money,
you're just filled with better than money for you all
to be better than money.
Well you should see you guys because you want
to always bring in fortune into the new year,
you can't go into the new york broke, that's not gonna work.
You always want to be like, you mentioned, you brought a whole spread here.
What are some of the flavors that we're talking about here. So
I'm excited to talk to you about ming's being so again,
it's a double fortune dumpling.
A
traditional dim sum mining from the ming dynasty we have modernizes
your hands. Right?
So this is a breakfast thing.
These are actually plant based,
even vegan this is using and this is something that is so cool.
We started this year is a partnership with just egg.
This is among being scrambled egg with veggies and
a violet cheese wrapped in a gluten free wrapper.
So this is half of being, this was done in your boardroom 16 min
an air fryer
super easy to cook right now.
I see why my mother in law is so obsessed with her aircraft.
She talks about it all the time.
And then the other ones are the most popular is the cheeseburger bang.
So if you ever had in and out double double and
I do it in the lettuce wrap.
This is our version again, gluten free vegan. So
I'm not trying to convert you to anyone to veganism.
But if you can, you can eat plant this a little bit more often.
Our motto is eat good, feel good, do good, eat because I'm an iron chef. It has to do, I
feel good because plant based is a little bit better for you
and if your mind works a little better for the world to and
do good because some proceeds benefit family reach and if you did a
blind taste test of internet double double with animal style with this,
nobody would know the difference.
Really, really, really, really good.
I love that you do want to transition to eating healthier and it's a plant based food.
What's your advice there?
So don't go all in, you don't have to become vegan overnight.
Right, try it a couple of times a week. I used to and still do mostly. I'm veggie
until dinner,
right?
I wanna eat my salmon and my chicken, my pork at night,
but just vegetarian till dinner with all the salad places with ming's Bing's.
Now, that's totally easy.
You know, one thing we were so excited about the only been around three years right?
During Covid you either froze or rose.
So we said, look, the CPG is, this is a good place to be,
restaurants were tough as you guys all know.
And you know, last year we were in about 250 stores and right now in 4000 stores and
we're excited.
You mentioned you made all this in our kitchen here,
but you were in an air fryer but he was on netflix is iron
apparently that has been the toughest thing ever.
That's the hardest, most fun challenging thing I've ever done in my life.
I mean 62 minutes and 75 2 minutes,
not two plates
and that's like 25 plates.
but I'm so competitive. I raised my kids up the stairs still
and I still beat. We love an Iron Chef. Especially live here in studio.
Our thanks to Chef Ming Tsai and of course you can
find his Ming's beings online or at a grocery store.
Can I tell you it's Fairway Wegmans and shop right here in new york city. He's got it.