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 In the Made With Lau YouTube logo, the Chinese surname Lau (劉) is in black text against a yellow background. | ||||||||||
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| Location | Concord, CA | |||||||||
| Years active | 2020–present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 1.14 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 98.4 million[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 1 May 2023 | ||||||||||
Made With Lau is an American YouTube channel that makes videos about how to cook Cantonese dishes. It features the Cantonese cooking of the Taishan-born Chung Sun Lau (known as Daddy Lau), who had more than 50 years of experience as a chef.
His son, Randy Lau, conceived of the channel after both he and his parents lost their main sources of income during the COVID-19 pandemic. Randy, who grew up in California, had a language barrier with his father, who spoke Cantonese. He viewed the channel as a way to become closer to his father and preserve the Cantonese culture for his children. Released September 1, 2020, Made With Lau's first video was about how to make mapo tofu. Each video generally discusses how to make a dish and its history and ends with three generations of the family eating the dish together. In the videos, Randy's mother, Jenny Lau (known as Mommy Lau), shares about what it was like living in China and answers viewers' questions. Daddy Lau speaks in Cantonese while he cooks, and the videos include Chinese and English subtitles as Randy did not want to dub over his father's voice. In their video about egg foo young, the channel discussed how Chinese people in the United States have been discriminated against.
Beginning after the 2021 Chinese New Year, the channel started receiving millions of views on average every month compared to 100,000 previously. By October 2021, it was making about $50,000 monthly through YouTube ad revenue. In December of that year, it reached half a million subscribers, and in December the following year, it reached one million subscribers. In 2024, Randy Lau received the James Beard Foundation Award for "Emerging Voice in Broadcast", while the Made With Lau channel received the James Beard Foundation Award for "Instructional Visual Media". Made With Lau teaches viewers how to make Cantonese dishes such as egg drop soup, hot and sour soup, tangyuan soup, congee, Chinese steamed eggs, rainbow chicken vegetable stir fry, chow mein, chow fun, ginger egg fried rice, zongzi, Kung Pao chicken, and char siu.
- ^ a b "About Made With Lau". YouTube.
- ^ Made With Lau (April 2, 2021). "🎉 100,000 SUBSCRIBERS! [ + our journey]". YouTube. Archived from the original on May 1, 2023. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
- ^ Made With Lau (December 2022). "1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!!". YouTube. Archived from the original on May 1, 2023. Retrieved May 1, 2023.