Kent Wong Put On Glasses So His Colleagues Would Not Recognize Him

The glasses were a disguise. In 2023 Kent Wong put them on for a video with his daughter, so nobody from his logistics office would know it was him. The account that grew out of that clip is Uncle K.

She had a school assignment on editing. He told her he did not know how, so they looked it up together. Then they filmed a dinner, because they needed a clip to edit. The first one went up on Xiaohongshu, the Chinese social app. It was a visit to Honbo in Wan Chai, a burger shop that has since closed. He has called it five minutes long, and very boring.

He kept those early posts in Mandarin, still hoping the office would scroll past. Most of the people introducing Hong Kong food on that app, he later told Sing Tao, were not from Hong Kong. His daughter had the practical objection. Nobody she knew was on Xiaohongshu. He opened an Instagram account, @uncle_k_hong_kong, and switched the narration to Cantonese, with English and Chinese subtitles.

The clip that traveled was a cart-noodle shop in Sheung Shui, a town in the northern New Territories, posted on November 11, 2024. Cart noodles are a soy-soup bowl you build from toppings, the kind street carts sold. Foodie, a Hong Kong food magazine, put the views above 250,000.

He still had the day job. He is in his forties, and for about twenty years he has moved goods between Hong Kong and the United States, Europe, and Asia, in a logistics business he runs with friends. After a customer meeting he asks what is good nearby. He will film any kind of room, he told Foodie, if he can afford the bill.

A cha chaan teng is the neighborhood café, the one with milk tea and a wall of breakfast sets. He films those, and the cooked-food floors above wet markets. A hotel dining room turns up too. In March 2026 he told The Straits Times that many of the old cooks were already near retirement before the pandemic. The hard years after it, he said, closed shops whose owners no longer had the stamina for the work. He has also seen children take over a family shop, and rooms that once wanted the cameras gone now ask for the video.

He told that paper he keeps filming because the response pleases him, a reader finds a meal, the shop gets the customers, and a visitor might come to Hong Kong.

In December 2025 he published a food map with the Hong Kong publisher 亮光文化. The new edition adds 35 restaurants and runs 184 pages. The Straits Times called it his 2026 Hong Kong Food Map. English and Chinese versions are sold online. He said he wants a guide people can use every year. He wakes up wanting a different meal.

In June 2026, Sing Tao wrote about readers who thought some of the restaurants were a letdown. He thanked them. Taste is personal, he said, and the same kitchen can have an off day. If the food is poor, or the people running the place do not seem to care, he does not post it. He had eaten for years at a famous roast goose shop. The day he brought the camera, the goose was off.

He told Foodie the videos have brought him closer to his daughter. On a call with classmates she says her dad is famous, and explains how they make the clips. He still does not want to be called an influencer. He still takes the customer meetings. The camera comes out at lunch.

How to Follow Uncle K When You Eat in Hong Kong is there if you want the habit on a short trip. The glasses were supposed to hide him. They are how people find him now.