12 popular YouTube cooking channels by Malaysian

Which are the top cooking video channels in Malaysia? With Malay, Chinese, variety of recipe combined, here are the most subscribed YouTube cooking channels!

Before the digital era, recipe book is the main source to get cooking inspirations. Well, it still is until today. Cooking shows on TV have also nurtured celebrity chefs, with Chef Wan among many, shot to fame via the TV programmes.

The TV shows have since evolved a bit, with reality cooking shows like MasterChef are becoming the audience's favourite on both satellite TV and OTT such as Netflix.

As opposed to TV, online media platforms like YouTube has enabled many to produce recipe videos from amateur to professional standards. Just perform a search on YouTube and there is hardly a recipe you couldn't find.

Cooking channels like Tasty and Tastemade are gaining huge eyeballs globally in recent years, so which are the top cooking video channels in Malaysia? Let's find out!

Here's how we shortlist and rank the cooking channels:

• Videos focusing on food preparation, be it cooking or baking recipe, excluding food reviews.
• Rank by YouTube subscribers (with minimum 25K subscribers), other social media's reach is not considered here.
• YouTube channel location set as Malaysia, or proof that Malaysian is behind the channel.
• The channel's audience might not be predominantly local as some channel operators are based in overseas.

Let us present to you, the popular cooking channels on YouTube made by Malaysians. Guess what? 6 out of 12, which means half of the listed YouTube channels are started in 2016!

Why 2016? Were they inspired and motivated by the success of Buzzfeed's Tasty back then?

#1. Nyonya Cooking

Focus Recipe Content: Variety
Joined YouTube: 26 Jan 2012
Total Subscribers: 214K+
Total Views (lifetime): 20.2M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 319K+

#2. iCookAsia

Focus Recipe Content: Malay
Joined YouTube: 13 Nov 2008
Total Subscribers: 193K+
Total Views (lifetime): 70.5M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 987K+

#3. Buat Orang Lapo

Focus Recipe Content: Malay
Joined YouTube: 16 May 2016
Total Subscribers: 167K+
Total Views (lifetime): 23.7M+
Total Views (last 30 days):1.2M+

#4. Kathrine Kwa

Focus Recipe Content: Chinese
Joined YouTube: 18 May 2016
Total Subscribers: 102K+
Total Views (lifetime): 17.3M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 1.6M+

#5. Seminit Resepi

Focus Recipe Content: Malay
Joined YouTube: 27 Jan 2016
Total Subscribers: 83K+
Total Views (lifetime): 9.1M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 535K+

#6. Stephie 蔚絲

Focus Recipe Content: Chinese
Joined YouTube: 10 Jan 2012
Total Subscribers: 62K+
Total Views (lifetime): 7.5M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 157K+

#7. 清闲廚房 MyKitchen101

Focus Recipe Content: Chinese
Joined YouTube: 23 Mar 2016
Total Subscribers: 58K+
Total Views (lifetime): 12.8M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 565K+

#8. Limau Nipis

Focus Recipe Content: Malay
Joined YouTube: 31 Mar 2016
Total Subscribers: 58K+
Total Views (lifetime): 8.9M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 759K+

#9. Azie Kitchen

Focus Recipe Content: Malay
Joined YouTube: 14 Feb 2016
Total Subscribers: 52K+
Total Views (lifetime): 7.7M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 461K+

#10. Cooking Ah Pa

Focus Recipe Content: Chinese
Joined YouTube: 19 Oct 2011
Total Subscribers: 45K+
Total Views (lifetime): 6.1M+
Total Views (last 30 days):731K+

#11. Little Duck's Kitchen 小黄鸭厨房

Focus Recipe Content: Chinese
Joined YouTube: 7 Aug 2017
Total Subscribers: 36K+
Total Views (lifetime): 6M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 419K+

#12. Malaysian Chinese Kitchen

Focus Recipe Content: Chinese
Joined YouTube: 17 Dec 2014
Total Subscribers: 25K+
Total Views (lifetime): 2.4M+
Total Views (last 30 days): 84K+

Special Mention: Nanyang Express 南洋小厨

Focus Recipe Content: Chinese
Total YouTube Subscribers: 6.6K+
Total Facebook Followers: 124K+
Total Instagram Followers: 8.9K+


Note: All data in this article is updated on 20 March 2019.

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