Maangchi
Maangchi is a New York-based Korean home cook, video creator and cookbook author who teaches fans how to make Korean food, from everyday banchan to kimchi and shared family meals.
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Overview
- Also known as
- Emily Kim
- Based in
- New York City
- Focus
- Korean home cooking, recipe videos and cookbooks
- Started
- 2007, with a spicy stir-fried squid video filmed in Toronto
- Wider recognition
- Profiled by The New York Times in 2015 as YouTube’s Korean Julia Child
Mini bio
Learning at home.
Born and raised in Korea, Maangchi learned from family, friends and food vendors. Her teaching keeps that home-cooking spirit: detailed recipes and techniques that readers can bring into their own kitchens.
How it started.
In April 2007, while living in Toronto, she filmed spicy stir-fried squid with a small point-and-shoot camera. She says she posted it for fun. Requests for written recipe details led her to build maangchi.com, a place for recipes and conversation among food lovers.
From videos to books.
Her growing audience led to three small self-published cookbooks, followed by Maangchi’s Real Korean Cooking in 2015 and Maangchi’s Big Book of Korean Cooking in 2019. The New York Times profiled her in 2015. Her second major cookbook reaches into temple cuisine, street food and lunchboxes.
Around a shared table.
Alongside individual recipes, her Real Korean Cooking Stories series shows meals with relatives, friends and neighbors in Korea. The eight-part series, filmed during a 2015 visit and concluded online in May 2025, gives fans a closer look at how dishes come together at a shared table.
Creditschronological, newest first
Cookbooks
- 2019Maangchi’s Big Book of Korean CookingAuthor and photographer
- 2015Maangchi’s Real Korean CookingAuthor and photographer
- 2008–2012Cooking Korean Food With Maangchi, Books 1–3Self-published author and photographer
Online series
- 2025Real Korean Cooking Stories: Farewell dinner with my friendsCreator and host; finale using footage filmed in 2015
- 2007Spicy stir-fried squidCreator and cook; first YouTube recipe
Awards
Quotes
I’m blessed to have met so many wonderful people through cooking.Maangchi, About Maangchi
From her official biography: https://www.maangchi.com/about
Trivia
- Maangchi means “hammer” in Korean. It was the name of one of her City of Heroes characters before it became her cooking name.
- Her adult son encouraged her to put her energy into a YouTube channel after years of online gaming.
- She took the photographs for all her cookbooks.
- Her first cooking video was filmed on a Sony Cybershot DSCW50 point-and-shoot camera.
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