{"id":99673,"date":"2026-11-15T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99673"},"modified":"2026-11-15T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:52:00","slug":"uncle-roger-comedian-nigel-ngs-journey-from-viral-videos-to-restaurants-and-a-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99673","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Roger comedian Nigel Ng\u2019s journey from viral videos to restaurants and a cookbook"},"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\/11\/13\/7f7480e0-dfb6-4736-a35c-da3a2cba82d2_1278f28d.jpg?itok=2pm_4F-O&amp;v=1794540649\" \/><br \/>Nigel Ng Kin-ju is in Los Angeles, adjusting a coffee grinder and apologising for the noise, when he tries to account for the past seven years over the phone.<br \/>\nThe voice on the line is his own \u2013 not the exaggerated Cantonese-inflected pidgin English of Uncle Roger, his orange-polo-wearing alter ego who famously roasted a BBC egg-fried rice tutorial in 2020 \u2013 but the measured, faintly amused tone of a 35-year-old Malaysian who still seems to be watching his own plot unfold from a slight&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3374051\/uncle-roger-comedian-nigel-ngs-journey-viral-videos-restaurants-and-cookbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Ng Kin-ju is in Los Angeles, adjusting a coffee grinder and apologising for the noise, when he tries to account for the past seven&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19288,11342,4303,17175,32694,3644,7991,3439,523,810],"class_list":["post-99673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-comedian","tag-cookbook","tag-journey","tag-ngs","tag-nigel","tag-restaurants","tag-roger","tag-uncle","tag-videos","tag-viral","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99673","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=99673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}