News about Ken Hom

When Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery first aired on BBC2 back in 1984, the series turned the Chinese-American presenter, author, chef and restaurateur into a household name.  Now fans are in for a treat when Saturday Kitchen celebrates Ken's 40-year career. On the show Taiwanese chef Ching-He Huang, who co-presented BBC's Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure with Ken in 2012, two-Michelin-starred Andrew Wong and Hakkasan's Tong Chee Hwee will serve a feast for Ken, now 74.

Hom was so hungry as a child growing up in Chicago that he now finds himself dreaming about food in his 70s. Donna Ferguson, a Chinese-American star of Saturday Kitchen, tells Donna Ferguson that he grew up "very bad" and was jailed for shoplifting at the age of ten. When the BBC hired Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery to show Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery, he came to fame in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Ken was ambassador to Prostate Cancer UK after successful prostate cancer treatment ten years ago and has pledged the charity a six-figure sum when he dies.

These are some of the finest takeaway restaurants in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. The list includes restaurants that have been lauded by their peers. Among the eateries are traditional fish and chip shops, offering the old-school family favourites, while others celebrate Britain's welcome diverse population with cuisines such as Chinese, Indian and Kebabs