Yan Can Cook is a Chinese-oriented cooking show starring Chef Martin Yan that featured recipes for stir fried foods and an assortment of various other traditional Chinese meals and cooking techniques. The series originated in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (CFAC-TV), from 1978 to 1982 as a daily syndicated cooking show, Yan Can, for 250 episodes until Yan moved to San Francisco, California, United States, in 1982 starting Yan Can Cook on PBS (KQED). Yan also wrote several cookbooks which serve as companions to these various television series. One of his other trademarks was to chop food frantically making music with a sharp cleaver while grinning toward the camera and audience. This show is shot on stage.

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  • Wok with Yan, a Canadian Chinese cooking television series starring Stephen Yan, for whom Martin Yan once worked