Mama Cheung

Mama Cheung 張媽媽廚房
Personal information
Born	1957 or 1958 (age 65–66)[1]
Nationality	Chinese
Website	Official recipe website
YouTube information
Channel	張媽媽廚房Mama Cheung
Years active	2014–present
Genre	Cooking
Subscribers	566,000[2]
Total views	101 million[2]
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 2017[3]
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	張媽媽廚房
Simplified Chinese	张妈妈厨房
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Mā Mā Chú Fáng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Zoeng1 Maa1*4 Maa1 Cyu4 Fong4-2
Lee Wai-ji
Traditional Chinese	李慧芝
Simplified Chinese	李慧芝
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lǐ Huìzhī Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Léih Wai-jī Jyutping Lei5 Wai3-zi1
Last updated: 16 January 2023

Mama Cheung (born 1957/1958; Chinese: 張媽媽廚房), known as Lee Wai-ji (Chinese: 李慧芝) and Tessa Cheung, is a Hong Kong YouTuber who makes videos about cooking Cantonese dishes.

When she first got married, Mama Cheung was not experienced in cooking, so she learned how to cook from her mother-in-law. After having been a housewife for around 40 years, Mama Cheung initially had no plans to become a YouTuber. Her children uploaded a video of her making sugared yam [zh] to YouTube in 2014. Upon seeing that the video was viewed several hundred times and had positive viewer feedback, she began making more cooking videos. In 2015, she collaborated with fellow Hong Kong cooking YouTuber Uncle Bob, who runs the Bob's Your Uncle channel, which increased awareness of her channel, allowing it to grow from several hundred subscribers to more than 10,000 in a year. She makes cooking videos about main dishes, dim sum, and desserts. One of her most viewed videos was about her using a rice cooker to bake a cake, which received over one million views. In 2020, Mama Cheung ranked among the top 12 Hong Kong YouTube channels that teach cooking.