Bob's Your Uncle

Bob's Your Uncle (born 18 June 1981), known as Uncle Bob , is a Hong Kong YouTuber who makes videos about cooking and travelling. As a teenage student, he travelled to the United Kingdom for schooling. Uncle Bob started to learn to cook after he found the Chinese restaurants he visited to be unappetising.

Uncle Bob started a YouTube channel in 2014 at the suggestion of his wife, who worked in advertising. He makes cooking videos about dishes from numerous countries. Uncle Bob uses Cantonese slang and Cantonese profanity in his videos. In addition to sharing about his personal life experiences, he discusses current events and political issues. Bob's Your Uncle was included in the "yellow YouTube circle" list in which netizens promoted channels that supported the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. His travel videos include reviews of cruise ships and first-class flights. After moving to the United Kingdom, he made a video sharing his experience of finding a rental in London.

Early and personal life Uncle Bob was born on 18 June 1981. He began cooking when he was 15 or 16 years old after having moved by himself to the United Kingdom as an international student. Uncle Bob had little money at the time. When he ate at Chinese restaurants, he found the food to be unappetising: the fried rice was too dry and the meat was tasteless. He lamented that the food sometimes was not even sufficiently warm. His first dish was luncheon meat and fried egg and was made for his then-girlfriend. He did not know how to cook at the time and added ginger to the dish. Uncle Bob met her for the first time around 2007 at Devon House, and they have been married since 25 May 2014. Both Uncle Bob and his wife have worked in advertising. Uncle Bob is a strong association football fan who has travelled to numerous international stadiums to watch his favourite team.

Uncle Bob, who had studied and lived in the United Kingdom for numerous years, moved to the United Kingdom. He made a video about his experiences renting a place in London. Six months after creating the channel, Uncle Bob had uploaded more than 60 videos, each of which was receiving tens of thousands of views. The dishes he made included oxtail soaked in black beer, okonomiyaki, beer-soaked chicken, rabbit stew made from cider, squirrel fish, katsudon, banana cake, and minced beef claypot rice. Uncle Bob frequently watched cooking videos from Marco Pierre White and Bruno Albouze and admired their cooking skills and how they were able to simplify complicated steps in a recipe.

Uncle Bob converses with Hong Kong slang and Cantonese profanity, which he uses during everyday speech. He made a video reviewing a first-class Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to Hong Kong he and his wife took on an Airbus A380 in May 2019. On 18 January, he published a YouTube video describing how there were two plainclothes people at the boarding gate who were not carrying luggage and were monitoring the passengers. Uncle Bob purposefully boarded the plane just before it was about to take off to see whether the plainclothes people would board the flight. After not seeing them board, he said he felt as if he had been at Pyongyang International Airport in North Korea. Stand News later confirmed that the officials were Immigration Department investigators who were monitoring for "suspicious persons" trying to leave Hong Kong with fake identity documents.

Politics and other topics While preparing the food for his cooking videos, Uncle Bob shared his views about current events and what is happening in his life. Metropop's Onyx found that Uncle Bob's sharing of his personal life gave viewers a "near and dear feeling".

In 2019, Uncle Bob made a video criticising two key opinion leaders who had said there was no point to going to school. He argued that there were numerous benefits to school. When mainland Chinese viewers suggested that he post his videos on Youku for the convenience of mainland Chinese viewers, Uncle Bob stated that the mainland Chinese government did not tolerate dissenting opinions. Uncle Bob said that as a businessman, he supported the yellow economic circle and joined a 12 January 2020 rally in favour of it. He said that owing to the 2019 Yuen Long attack, numerous people in the Hong Kong middle-class "turned yellow", and this is "all because of the government, Black Police, and police violence".