What inspired you to start your YouTube Video?

I like photography and cooking, why not combine them together. YouTube is a perfect platform to try out all my skills and show it to people. The number of subscribers or views count is not my focus at this stage, all I care is my content being practical and easy to follow or not.

Personally, I enjoy interacting with those viewers who share the same interests, they even message me what they want to cook and ask me to demonstrate in a modified version, because they cannot find some of those ingredients or seasoning in their countries. Happy to have received so many inputs and support from the ones I actually never met. There was a viewer from Scotland even sent me a ‘career plan’ on YouTube, and share with me how I should run ‘my show business’!

What is your favourite recipe?

I don’t really have any favourite recipe simply due to ‘hard to choose’ one that I like the most. Because I like Thai basil, Indian spices, Chinese Sichuan hot and numbing taste, Japanese umami, Korean food being red and spicy to match the sheer passion. Well, not a faithful chef I believe!

Being a ‘Seasonal and Festive’ Cook, (I labelled myself), my ingredients must be seasonal and fresh, I am very picky n fussy on that, so I only go to those fresh food suppliers who I have known for quite some time otherwise I would be kicked out from that store. It happened once when I insisted that he was selling sweet basil (USA) but not holy basil (Thailand). The shopkeeper was so upset and asked me to leave.

What has been your most memorable or exciting or challenging moments?

Cooking competition. ‘4 dishes (including a soup dish) within 30 minutes Challenge’. I gained the experience of menu design, time management, assembling ingredients and utensils before starting to cook (mise-en-place).
Since it was a live show, I needed to cook and answer whoever posted a question, I was quite overwhelmed. The viewers could not taste the final dishes, I needed to ‘show’ them, so the plating n garnishing did a great job!
Being a winner chef, I was being offered a proposal of starting my own cooking classes and market on local design kitchenware.

What advice would you give to others who wish to try out similar experiences?

Choose a niche that your are knowledgeable about, define your channel’s goals and content, map it out, i.e. short term or Long term? Short term could based on ‘your interests’, while long term should based on viewers interests, show what ‘viewers want or need’ to view. Viewers could always learn something or be inspired by your videos, so content is king, and it is essential that you keep your channel intriguing and up-to-date.

It is totally alright to start from the very bottom with the least shooting equipment, don’t be put off by the challenge ahead, just start to make some videos and have fun. Often videos that go wrong are the most popular and a fake fail is not nearly as hilarious as the real thing.

Most importantly, enjoy what your are doing, – being a Youtuber!

Your subscription is my strong motivation to go on!
My YouTube Channel: QRCookeasy 大家姐戀煮廚房

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1irNfr2dIQLU7mcFbqKXPw