Greetings and Welcome to my Fall Feng Shui Newsletter!
I am sitting with chef Ming Tsai and his feng shui consultant Natalia Kaylin, at a corner table in Blue Ginger, Ming’s award-winning restaurant in Wellesley, MA. A waiter brings us a large bottle of sparkling water. Ming opens it and pours. “I’m a rational guy," says the much beloved, world famous chef. “I’m tactile in a way, but I believe in this stuff - I don’t have to be sold on it." Ming is talking about Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese practice of finding the flow of energy in an environment and the interconnectedness of life. People may know it as a way of figuring out where to put the couch, but spend five minutes with Ming and Natalia and you’ll realize that it’s not about decorating… read the full article
The kitchen is the heart of a home. Food and nourishment are essential elements of life. It is one of the most important rooms in feng shui. Traditionally, the kitchen represents wealth. The most important object in the kitchen is a stove (element Fire). This is the time of the year to really use it! Watch Video 1. When you are designing your new kitchen or redesigning an old one, be sure to separate the placement of a stove (Fire), refrigerator (Metal) and sink (Water). These three elements are of different nature and clash with each other. Triangular design is ideal, but even separating them with kitchen cabinets is good enough. Watch Video 2. Fire and Earth elements are essential elements in kitchen design. They are in harmony with each other and respectively represent wealth and nourishment. Yellow is my favorite color for the kitchen walls. Simply adding ceramic bowls, red towels and a few other red, orange, and yellow kitchen accessories will bring not only more joy and fun, it will create a warm atmosphere where family members are drawn to spend some time together. Watch Video 3 and Video 4. For a stove placement it is better to have a solid wall behind it rather than it being in an island, but consider what is on the other side of the wall. Restroom or laundry rooms are not good behind the stove. Watch Video 5. Note: I don't own these videos. I was hired to do them. Some of them might have a few seconds of advertisement. Please wait a moment for the video to start.
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This is the time of the year to give thanks for what we have and what we have achieved. So I am sharing a story about Ming Tsai and his thoughts and experience with feng shui. It was a great pleasure and a lot of fun to work with Ming on his Blue Ginger renovation project. The more time I spent with him the more I understood that the secret to his success is that he cares. There are usually several ways in feng shui to achieve a desired effect. He cared about esthetics of every feng shui suggestion I have made and every single design detail that his team of architects and designers suggested. He cares about his employees. (They just love him!) He cares about his customers. He does this by creating the best food, the most outstanding service, and the most beautiful dining experiences. I invite you to experience it yourself on one of those long Fall evenings. You can find the Blue Ginger restaurant at: 
