Mama Cheung

Mama Cheung
張媽媽廚房
Mama Cheung; 張媽媽廚房
Personal information
Born	1957 or 1958 (age 65–66)
Nationality	Chinese
Website	Official recipe website
YouTube information
Channel	張媽媽廚房Mama Cheung;
Years active	2014–present
Genre	Cooking
Subscribers	566,000
Total views	101 million
Creator Awards
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	張媽媽廚房
Simplified Chinese	张妈妈厨房
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhāng Mā Mā Chú Fáng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Zoeng1 Maa1*4 Maa1 Cyu4 Fong4-2
Lee Wai-ji
Traditional Chinese	李慧芝
Simplified Chinese	李慧芝
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lǐ Huìzhī
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Léih Wai-jī
Jyutping	Lei5 Wai3-zi1
	Last updated: 16 January 2023

Mama Cheung (born 1957/1958; Chinese: 張媽媽廚房), known as Lee Wai-ji (Chinese: 李慧芝) and Tessa Cheung, is a Hong Kong YouTuber who makes videos about cooking Cantonese dishes.

When she first got married, Mama Cheung was not experienced in cooking, so she learned how to cook from her mother-in-law. After having been a housewife for around 40 years, Mama Cheung initially had no plans to become a YouTuber. Her children uploaded a video of her making sugared yam [zh] to YouTube in 2014. Upon seeing that the video was viewed several hundred times and had positive viewer feedback, she began making more cooking videos. In 2015, she collaborated with fellow Hong Kong cooking YouTuber Uncle Bob, who runs the Bob's Your Uncle channel, which increased awareness of her channel, allowing it to grow from several hundred subscribers to more than 10,000 in a year. She makes cooking videos about main dishes, dim sum, and desserts. One of her most viewed videos was about her using a rice cooker to bake a cake, which received over one million views. In 2020, Mama Cheung ranked among the top 12 Hong Kong YouTube channels that teach cooking.

^ 張佩君 (9 December 2018). "【網紅世界】拍片吸26萬訂閱 60歲煮婦KOL全家撐" [[Internet celebrity world] Filming videos attracted 260,000 subscribers. 60-year-old cooking woman KOL, entire family supports]. Apple Daily (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
^ ^a ^b "About 張媽媽廚房Mama Cheung". YouTube.
^ Mama Cheung (6 February 2017). "我的You Tube channel 已飛越十萬人訂閱了，多謝大家的支持! 我會繼續努力❤🎉My You Yube cooking channel has reached over 100k subscribers, thank you very much for your support! ❤🎉" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021 – via Facebook.

[張佩君2018-12-09-1] 張佩君 (9 December 2018). "【網紅世界】拍片吸26萬訂閱 60歲煮婦KOL全家撐" [[Internet celebrity world] Filming videos attracted 260,000 subscribers. 60-year-old cooking woman KOL, entire family supports]. Apple Daily (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.

[YouTubeStats張媽媽廚房Mama_Cheung-2] "About 張媽媽廚房Mama Cheung". YouTube.

[Cheung2017-02-06-3] Mama Cheung (6 February 2017). "我的You Tube channel 已飛越十萬人訂閱了，多謝大家的支持! 我會繼續努力❤🎉My You Yube cooking channel has reached over 100k subscribers, thank you very much for your support! ❤🎉" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021 – via Facebook.

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