What is blue ginger?
Miss Polly came up with the name. We had a list of 50 names when we first opened: Chef Ming, Jasmine’s…Out of the blue she said Blue Ginger. Blue, of course, is my favorite color and blue also connotes water, and we’re big believers in feng shui – the flow of energy throughout a space. [In Singapore] they call galangal [a root like ginger] blue ginger.