Introduction to Zhen Wenda:

Born in Guangzhou, his parents moved to Hong Kong when he was 13 years old and began to learn cooking. Went to the United States to study in the 1970s. In the meantime, he worked in a restaurant. Later he taught Chinese cuisine in a cooking class. Zhen Wenda is the first Chinese to successfully spread Chinese food culture to mainstream society in the United States. In the United States, the cooking program "YANCANCOOK" he hosted has been broadcast in dozens of countries and regions around the world. His relaxed, funny and friendly hosting style and simple and easy-to-understand cooking techniques have earned the show high ratings around the world. He has been doing this job for 28 years. Today, he has more than 2,000 episodes of the program, nearly 6,000 dishes, and the number of viewers who have watched his program has reached 2 billion.

Zhen Wenda was nominated as the first culinary ambassador by the American Chefs Federation, and also received an honorary doctorate in gastronomy from John Wells University, as well as many other international culinary awards.

Zhen Wenda talks about cooking skills:

Every traditional Chinese chef is "a daughter-in-law who has been a mother-in-law for many years." It takes many years of hard work before she can graduate. I remember that the master was always very strict and could not do any dirty work he ordered. On the other hand, one must be more discerning, sneak peeks and learn secretly according to circumstances. Don't look at me now, I can chop a carrot neatly in just a few seconds, and cook all kinds of meat and vegetables that I am obsessed with. It's all based on the basic skills I learned through gritted teeth at that time. It was only then that I realized the master’s painstaking efforts. Without the strictness of the master at that time, there would be no "Zhen Neng Cooking" today.