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Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
Name: Christian Yang
Age: 33
Nationality: Chinese
Country of Residence: China
1. Your restaurant/business: Bang Bang Pan Pan – Okonomiyaki Restaurant, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
2. About your kitchen: Chopsticks and siphons.
3. Your favorite Chef Works item: Signature Series SI34.
4. First job: Pot washing trainee – Alain Ducasse, Paris, France.
5. Your cookbook: “How to cook with Kahoonas” – Any publishers out there?
6. Your awards: 7th Grade Best Improved Award for Drama – I played a tree.
7. Your cooking inspiration: The singlet-wearing dude with the rice roll kart when I was 4 – fresh rice rolls with peanut sauce, sesames, sweet sauce and chili paste and the aroma of Kerosene from his stove.
8. Your specialty dish: Braised Short Rib (grass-fed of course) Tempura with Soy Caramel.
9. Favorite dish to eat: Chiu Chow flat noodles with pig’s trotters and ox tripe (I also secretly love sweet and sour pork/mystery meat).
10. Weirdest thing you ever ate: Deep fried tarantula legs in Cambodia. The grossest: anemic shark flesh in Iceland.
11. Favorite ice cream flavor: Yakult flavor.
12. Favorite drink: Hong Kong-style ice milk tea – AKA stocking milk tea.
13. Favorite wine: Vin Jaune by Frédéric Lornet of Jura, France.
14. Who would you most like to cook for: My Wife and Catherine Tate, the British comedienne.
15. Who would you least like to cook for: There isn’t anyone I wouldn’t like to cook for.
16. Favorite things to do when not cooking: Playing with my daughter, Amberlie.
17. Your latest project: Bang Bang Pan Pan II and continuing with my radio and television shows in Hong Kong including Food and Culture II and NOW TV – Chef Corner III.
18. Favorite city and why: Hong Kong – I love my city, we are rude and shallow and we embrace this as part of who we are.
19. Your greatest indulgence: Custard, good. Jam, good. Meat, good (quote by Joey Tribbiani from Friends).
20. Your all time best culinary tip: Taste, taste, taste and taste and when you are done doing that, taste some more!