Yesterday I had the privelege of meeting Ming Tsai at Chicago’s Housewares Show. Representing an eco-friendly company that manufactures gorgeous bamboo products, Tru Bamboo, Ming demonstrated cooking shrimp tempura and taught how to roll one’s own sushi…interesting. While makimono seems to be the “final frontier” of impossible-to-replicate-at-home dishes, we did get to talk a little marketing.

While I think playing off the hit book, Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat would be a good next move for Ming (Victoria Beckham has said she lives by it), but I’ll settle for fantastic tips given on his shows and website for now. Hopefully I’ll make it to his restaurant, Blue Ginger, sometime soon!