Anybody heard of Martin Yan?

[Kaieye]

Martin came and sat next to me and kept serving me food profusely after the taping of the show. We were at the Thunder Valley casino right out of Sacramento doing a Chinese food skit for one of the local Cantonese TV programs which my eldest daughter starred in.

A real down to earth kind of guy...

 

[UncleWai]

Who hasn't heard of Martin Yan should be shot. Yan can cook, so can you, joi kin!

He is faking his accent right?

 

[brtspears2]

I used to watch him on PBS all the time.

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Who hasn't heard of Martin Yan should be shot. Yan can cook, so can you, joi kin!

He is faking his accent right?

Who's Martin Yan?

 

[UncleWai]

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Who hasn't heard of Martin Yan should be shot. Yan can cook, so can you, joi kin!

He is faking his accent right?

Who's Martin Yan?

*busting a cap on zoiks* :|

 

[Ns1]

he speaks perfect english.

 

[eits]

i used to watch yan on pbs all the time as a kid

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: Kaieye
Martin came and sat next to me and kept serving me food profusely after the taping of the show. We were at the Thunder Valley casino right out of Sacramento doing a Chinese food skit for one of the local Cantonese TV programs which my eldest daughter starred in.

A real down to earth kind of guy...

Are you Stephen Chow?

I'm such a fan!:camera:

 

[Anubis]

yan can cook was one of my fave cooking shows when i was younger

there was also " wok with Yan" might have been same show tho

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Who hasn't heard of Martin Yan should be shot. Yan can cook, so can you, joi kin!

He is faking his accent right?

nope, met and worked him a few times. he does speak with that accent. pretty cool guy.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

oh god... i thought for a minute this thread was about him passing away.

 

[George P Burdell]

That guy could do things with a knife that even robots would find hard to master.

 

[sjwaste]

Yup, he paved the way for things like Food TV. I remember watching his show as a kid on PBS. Julia Child had one too, but she was getting kind of creepy. And I'm only 25.

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: sjwaste
Yup, he paved the way for things like Food TV. I remember watching his show as a kid on PBS. Julia Child had one too, but she was getting kind of creepy. And I'm only 25.

Julia Child taking a broadsword to food started the yummy funnies!

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Who hasn't heard of Martin Yan should be shot. Yan can cook, so can you, joi kin!

He is faking his accent right?

nope, met and worked him a few times. he does speak with that accent. pretty cool guy.

He's faking it.

 

[Steve]

We used to have his books.

 

[jman19]

If Yan can cook, so can you!

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Who hasn't heard of Martin Yan should be shot. Yan can cook, so can you, joi kin!

He is faking his accent right?

nope, met and worked him a few times. he does speak with that accent. pretty cool guy.

He's faking it.

I heard that he fakes his accent and that he speaks perfect English. but anyone got a link somewhere to back that up?

 

[Kaieye]

He speaks perfect English with a slight Chinese accent, excellent Cantonese and very very good Mandarin. He told me he just completed 52 shows for PBS and another 52 shows for the Chinese people taped in China. My daughter and I drove back with him in the TV station rented minivan from the Casino two hours back to his car next to the SF airport. He lives here in the SF Bay area.

 

[Yreka]

I remember his show from when I was a kid. He is also occasionally a guest judge on Iron Chef America.

 

[raystorm]

He's more entertaining than most of the chefs on the Food Network (I find them terribly dull sometimes). He's a fun cooking personality and I've always enjoyed his shows since I was a kid.

 

[Vonkhan]

ye, I used to watch his show - good stuff

 

[DnetMHZ]

Used to watch him all the time.

"Cut it up, Cut it up, Cut it up!"

 

[jman19]

Anyone remember this low budget cooking show (might have been public access, not sure) called "Biker Billy Cooks With Gas"? It was pretty amusing actually

 

[Jschmuck2]

That was my Grandma's favorite cooking show on TV. Use to watch it all the time - in fact, sometimes I still say "If Yan can cook, you can cook," and people look at me funny