Yan can and has done it

As a success story television chef Martin Yan is one of the more inspirational. Raised in a Guangdong village, his father died when he was five, and his mother did not get the chance to be educated, so the fledgling chef, who started cooking at 13, had to make his own way in the world via Hong Kong and later California, where he now lives, on a half-acre plot, complete with herb garden. “And no, I don’t eat dogs, I have a dog,” he says.

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