East Meets West With Ming Tsai

Ming Tsai prepares a meal that would make a grown man cry, with dishes including Five Chile Strip Steak with Corned Beef Hash, an Onion Pickle and Hot Country Mustard Sauce.

Ming Tsai creates an East-West Blue Plate Special that includes Asian Pork Meatloaf with Red Wine-Mushroom Gravy and Meatloaf Croque Monsieur.

Ming Tsai shows how to lighten up Western dishes with Eastern ingredients and techniques. Recipes include Cucumber, Celeriac and Citrus Salad with Warm Rock Shrimp and Coriander Crusted Halibut with Rice Noodles and Ginger Broth.

Ming Tsai plans out some weekend cooking to help prepare for the week. He makes Salt Baked Chickens with Spring Vegetable and Mushroom Ragout, and then shares how to make Basil Chicken Pot Pies and a Chicken, Tomato and Pasta Salad from the leftovers.

Ming Tsai serves up a meatlovers' seafood dinner, featuring Multi-Spiced Crusted Tuna "Steak" with Black Bean-Shiraz Butter Sauce, Roasted Shiitake and Yukon Gold Potatoes and a Citrus Pea Sprout Salad.

Ming Tsai creates two mouthwatering, spicy soups, including Hot and Sour Pumpkin Soup with Chive Cream and Tomatillo Soup with Chayote Salad.

Ming Tsai puts together bi-coastal Asian salads, including Thai Marinated Beef Cabbage Salad with Warm Shallot Vinaigrette, Lobster Pomelo Salad and Yu Sang.

The East meets Portugal as Ming Tsai makes the popular pork dish, "Alentejana" -- Pork and Clams East Meets West Style.