The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.