Martin Yan
Sign in to saveChinese American chef, cooking television show host, and food writer
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1948
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Martin Yan's invitation to Chinese cooking
- Zhen Wenda de Xianggang wei dao
- Chef Yan's favorite recipes
- The Chinese Chef
- Everybody's wokking
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Film & TV
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Martin Yan (Chinese: 甄文達, Zhen Wenda) is a Chinese-American chef and food writer. He has hosted his award-winning PBS-TV cooking show Yan Can Cook since 1982. He has acted in films as both himself and characters and published a variety of books.
Known for
- I Bid You Peace: The Rise & Fall of the Frugal Gourmet — Self2026
- Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom — Self2018
- Rice Rhapsody — Kim Chui2005
- Martin Yan's Chinatowns — Self2002
- Love Knows No Bounds — King Kong1995
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast1994
- Improper Channels — Sherman Hu1981
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Zhen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Guangzhou
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Chinese
- Official website
- yancancook.com
- Image
- MartinYan-YanCanCook (crop 2x3).jpg
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- Commons category
- Martin Yan
- date of birth
- 1948-12-22
- name in native language
- 甄文達
- social media followers
- 3558
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