Profile | Father-son duo on sharing their passion for authentic Chinese food, first on YouTube as the Hunger Pangs, and now in A Very Chinese Cookbook
- Father-son YouTube duo Jeffrey and Kevin Pang – who bill themselves the Hunger Pangs – reveal how they found a shared passion in cooking
- The social media stars have created A Very Chinese Cookbook, featuring American-Chinese classics, ‘the best char siu recipe’ and Hong Kong-style milk tea
The germination of A Very Chinese Cookbook started back in 2012, when retiree Jeffrey Pang made an amateur video of his wife’s hands demonstrating how to make scallion pancakes, and sent the YouTube link to his son, Kevin.
“I didn’t open his email at first; most kids don’t pay attention to emails their parents send,” says Kevin Pang, 42. “I don’t think I watched it for a few months.
“And then later, when my mum told me about it, I finally clicked on it – and realised a lot of people were watching and commenting on it.
“As he kept building his channels, I was shocked at just how well the videos were doing. Like, hundreds of thousands – not an easy feat in the early 2010s.”
In a three-way video call from Seattle, in the United States, Jeffrey, 72, explains he made the videos because he likes to cook, and his son likes to eat.