On The Road - Rhine

Ming continues cooking through Norway, meeting up with chef Orjan Johannessen for a feast of Norwegian proportions! Joined by Orjan's parents, the two chefs create two distinctive Fjord Trout meals, while the Johannessen's create a pickled herring and caramel pudding. Each dish highlights the tastes and traditions of this Scandinavian nation.

This week on "Simply Ming," Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto stops by the loft kitchen for a showdown. After a quick cucumber cutting challenge, these two amazing chefs cook up dueling versions of a traditional Japanese dish: Tonkatsu. While Iron Chef Morimoto doubles down and makes a traditional deep-fried pork cutlet tonkatsu and his house ramen, Ming counters that with a vegetarian version of portobello tonkatsu atop a fantastic house rice.

Mackerel is on the menu for Ming and chef Andreas Viestad on this special episode of "Simply Ming" in Norway. Known for his show, "New Scandinavian Cooking", Chef Viestad introduces Ming to a farm apple Kir before they settle in to whip up two mouth-watering meals. With dishes capturing each of the five tastes, this is a meal you won't forget.

Chef Sara Moulton, a protegee of Julia Child and host of the series "Sara's Weeknight Meals," joins Ming in the kitchen to make some family comfort food. Sara slow cooks a flavorful Alsatian onion pie, and Ming follows with one of his Sunday night favorites - French onion apple soup. 

This week on "Simply Ming," rising star and Cambridge-based chef, Will Gilson, joins Ming. Will, the chef and owner of Puritan & Co. in Cambridge, is going to help Ming cook up duck two ways. Will makes duck breast with hay-roasted carrots and toasted pistachios, and Ming makes pressure cooked Szechwan duck legs with Yukon gold potato fried rice.

This week on "Simply Ming," Simon Majumdar, British author and TV personality, travels the world and makes a stop at Ming's loft kitchen to cook up chicken two ways. Simon makes his favorite chicken tikka masala, while Ming shares a taste of his childhood with his mom's curry-apple chicken with house rice. We're taking recipes from across the globe as well as the family cookbook, this week on Simply Ming.

Today on "Simply Ming," James Beard-nominated chef Susan Regis joins Ming in his loft kitchen. Ming and Susan focus on fresh-picked veggies - Susan starts out by creating a rye berry salad with wine cap mushrooms, wild greens and herbed creme rraiche. Meanwhile, Ming couples a delicious coriander-crusted salmon with asparagus sauce, quinoa and an asparagus salad.

This week on "Simply Ming," Houston chef Bryan Caswell joins us. Recognized by the James Beard Foundation, Food & Wine, and Bon Appetit as one of Texas's top chefs, Caswell barbecues a blackened black sea bass on the half shell with Swiss chard and a field pea saute. Next, Ming dishes up a crispy whole black sea bass. It's all happening this week on Simply Ming.