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Martin (YouTuber)
Martin () is a Hong Kong YouTuber, television personality, and author. He created the YouTube cooking channel Dim Cook Guide () on 21 February 2014, growing it to be ranked third by number of subscribers for Hong Kong YouTube channels in 2021. On Dim Cook Guide, Martin posts videos about how to cook food in different ways, aiming to showcase the most popular dishes that are available in local eateries. Martin posts travel vlogs and conducts food and product reviews. Martin co-created the YouTube channel () with Taiwanese gaming YouTuber . The channel features ''mo lei tau'' humour as well as entertainment, lifestyle, ''kuso'', Internet challenges, and unboxing content. It reached 1.3 million subscribers by the end of 2022. Martin authored two cookbooks and started Delicious Cow Shop (), a hot pot online store that mostly sells Japanese ingredients. He competed on the ViuTV cooking reality competition show in 2020 and guest starred on the 2022 HOY TV cooking show . With , he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Lei Tau
''Mo lei tau'' () is a type of slapstick humour associated with Hong Kong popular culture that developed during the late 20th century. It is a phenomenon that has grown largely from its presentation in modern film media. Its humour arises from the placement of surprising and incongruous elements, and the complex interplay of cultural subtleties. Typical constituents of this humour include nonsensical parodies, juxtaposition of contrasts, sudden surprises in spoken dialogue and action and improbable and deliberate anachronisms. During an interview with Stephen Chow for his 2006 season of ''Asian Invasion'', BBC film critic Jonathan Ross referred to the genre as "Silly Talk", a label that Chow was happy to accept. Semantics ''Mo lei tau'' (Jyutping: mou4 lei4 tau4) is a Cantonese term which may be loosely translated as "with no source", but is generally used to mean "makes no sense". The original phrase was ''mok lei tau haau'' (莫釐頭尻) which literally means "cannot di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |