Ming Tsai

Guy Fieri is looking for a clambake without leaving the ranch. Aarti Sequeira bakes blueberry cobbler, Rocco DiSpirito cans a southampton clambake, Ming Tsai makes a lemongrass shandy, and Jonathan Waxman serves seafood al cartoccio.

In a test of HONOR, the Thanksgiving-themed final episode is a knife-to-knife battle between the remaining two chefs to win the title of NEXT IRON CHEF. Special judges include Bobby Flay and Morimoto.

The Chairman's charge today is INSPIRATION and the modern feel of new Las Vegas coupled with the stellar culinary talent in the city should serve to inspire them.

Three celebrity chefs who cook the food of their ancestors discover family members who have shaped their lives — and America’s cuisine. Tom Colicchio of “Top Chef” learns the hardships his family endured (famine, bandits) living in a tiny town in Northern Italy and celebrates the courage of his original immigrant ancestor, a man who crossed the Atlantic many times to bring the Colicchios to the United States; Ming Tsai, the child of immigrants who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution, was raised to believe that his that his family’s Chinese past was obliterated by the Communists — instead, he finds that his roots can be traced back more than 2,000 years, yielding a large family tree; and Aaron Sanchez discovers that his family’s treasured Mexican roots include people who were Spaniards, Africans and Native Americans.

The Chairman's charge is SEDUCTION because an Iron Chef must seduce the taste buds.