Kitchen-loving kid who honed his food preparation skills as a toddler admits being ‘average’ academically; cooks like a ‘professional chef’
2-MIN READ2-MINAlice Yanin ShanghaiPublished: 6:00pm, 8 Mar 2026A 14-year-old boy in eastern China has trended on social media after he helped out his under-pressure parents by skillfully cooking in their small noodle restaurant.
Liu Yuze, a Grade Two student at a middle school in Taihe county of Anhui province, has been helping his parents in the restaurant since childhood, the Dawan News reported.
Videos of the boy cooking like a professional chef and grasping skills like wok spinning have attracted more than 2.5 million likes online.
“Cooking is my biggest hobby. If I work more, my parents will not be so exhausted,” the boy was quoted as saying.
According to his mother, surnamed Wang, Liu became interested in kitchen chores when he was a toddler.
“When he was about three or four years old and was as tall as the chopping board, he keenly offered to prepare noodles. When he was five years old, he liked to stand beside his father and observed how to cook,” said Wang.
