Stephen Yan in an undated photo from 1980 on the set of his TV show Wok with Yan.
Toronto Star food reporter Karon Liu talks about growing up watching Stephen Yan on TV, and his legacy today.
Toronto Star food reporter Karon Liu talks about Stephen Yan's place as one of Canada's first celebrity chefs Although it's been almost 30 years since Stephen Yan appeared on TV, nostalgic audiences are still wok-ing about his early-aughts program,listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player.. I was too young to really pay attention to it, but it's a memorable face.
I think my parents liked watching him because he was a fellow Chinese guy on TV. And then for me, who was five or six at the time, I kind of saw him as a children's television host, almost…. So I think for me, he was just this really charismatic guy who made these terrible uncle-like puns. There was something about him that made him really appealing. I kind of saw him as a Mr. Rogers character.: I mean, he's among the first celebrity chefs.
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