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A restaurant created by chef and owner Ming Joe combines traditional American Chinese cuisine and some of his favorite dishes inspired by his birthplace, Hong Kong, made with locally available ingredients. Ming’s Chinese Restaurant is a return to professional cooking for the New Orleanian. Ming’s mother, Susan, taught him how to cook Chinese food more than 25 years ago in the kitchen of their family-owned Uptown restaurant. He fell in love with cooking there and has been building on her lessons ever since. “Chinese cooking in America has a long history and its own tradition, and it is changing as more people from different parts of China come to live and work here,” Chef Ming said. “We want to honor the tradition and show where it’s going”.