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Christians from the West have tried to save the souls of the Chinese for centuries. In the late 1500s the arrival of Italian Mateo Ricci?the first Jesuit to show up on China's shores?threw the Ming court into a tizzy: his hosts initially viewed him as a savage for carrying an idol of a long-haired fellow nailed to a cross. In the 1800s, thousands of Western missionary families spread across China offering healthcare and famine relief, eliciting accusations of selective distribution to the faithful: Chinese referred pejoratively to peasant converts as "rice Christians." In the early 1900s...
...Food Network has always been a paradox, delivering the A to Z of cuisine to a population that lives on the canned sauces and Boston Market meals touted in its commercial breaks. It's an audience that, as Ming Tsai points out on the phone from his restaurant Blue Ginger, spends thousands on Viking stoves, then uses them to heat takeout...
...half the time, on East Meets West, Tsai cooks expert fusion fare. The other half, on his new food-adventure show Ming's Quest, he's diving for sea urchins, falling off horses or staring down alligators like the Crocodile Hunter. Likewise, Bobby Flay and Mario Batali have taken their chef stars on the road in their own travel series. As Tsai puts it, "The network wanted to get us out of the kitchen." The few remaining hard-core cooking shows succeed because they have a gimmick, like Sara Moulton's stump-the-chef call-in show Cooking Live...
...meet Ming (Andrew Han '01) and Oscar (Gautham Bhan '02), a gay Asian twenty-something couple, just as they are breaking up from an intense four-year relationship. In the complex dialogue of the first act, which alternates between testimonial-like projections to the audience and their more private interchanges, the two men reminisce over the struggles and the happy times they shared together. Their interactions become strained, less frequent and even more wistful in the second act as they attempt to rebuild their lives with new partners. The tense relations between Ming and Robert (Jeremy Blocker '03), an ingenuous...
...efficacy of this storyline is due, to a large extent, to the quality of the cast. On their own, Han and Bhan have firm grasp of the nuances of their characters. Han's Ming is often immature, occasionally even cruel, yet he can also be touchingly sensitive. Bhan's Oscar effectively evinces both his need to maintain propriety and his earnest desire for Ming's affection. Together, they make an incredible team...