Ming Tsai, the innovative American celebrity chef and restaurateur, may have grown up in the United States, but his first food memory is from Taiwan. "I visited my grandparents in Taipei every other summer till I was 14, and what I remember best is that we'd eat, eat, eat. For breakfast we'd have traditional shao bing, a sesame-seed-coated bread sliced like a hotdog bun, folded around fried dough called youtiao and dunked in hot soy milk, either sweet or salty," he recalls, describing a classic Chinese breakfast.
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