{"id":90674,"date":"2026-10-06T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90674"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:23:10","slug":"ive-always-loved-food-yan-can-cooks-martin-yan-on-his-culinary-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90674","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve always loved food\u2019: Yan Can Cook\u2019s Martin Yan on his culinary journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/05\/5c083b5f-b60e-4df1-8ff3-526a935c2939_b14b3311.jpg?itok=p9F2wH6G&amp;v=1791190243\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Martin Yan Man-tat first appeared on Canadian television in 1978 as a fresh, enthusiastic 29-year-old chef eager to teach people about Cantonese cooking. He has since become one of the culinary world\u2019s most renowned figures, recognised for his cooking show <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Yan Can Cook<\/em> and catchphrase, \u201cIf Yan can cook, so can you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nearly 50 years on, the celebrity chef \u2013 who was born in Guangzhou, moved to Hong Kong as a teenager and later left for Canada and the United States \u2013 remains as zealous as ever in spreading culinary knowledge and discovering new approaches in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019m still working because I love what I do,\u201d says Yan, who turns 78 this December. \u201cNowadays, I just do things that I love, things that I enjoy, [but] I\u2019ve always loved food, and I\u2019m passionate about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">His latest interview with the South China Morning Post comes on the occasion of his endorsement of Exotica Umami, a <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">marinade sauce<\/span> developed by Hong Kong restaurateur Dan Gan and launched earlier in 2026.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3369776\/ive-always-loved-food-yan-can-cooks-martin-yan-his-culinary-journey?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Yan Man-tat first appeared on Canadian television in 1978 as a fresh, enthusiastic 29-year-old chef eager to teach people about Cantonese cooking. He has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[21469,5338,108,1399,4303,2105,4988,6476],"class_list":["post-90674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-cooks","tag-culinary","tag-food","tag-ive","tag-journey","tag-loved","tag-martin","tag-yan","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}