[1] He was raised in Chicago, Illinois, by his widowed mother, Ying Fong, after his father died when Hom was eight months old.

[2] Hom first learned cooking at the age of eleven when he worked in his uncle's Chinese restaurant.

[5] In 2012 he co-presented the BBC series Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure with Ching He Huang.

He has made some of his many appearances on the BBC's long-running weekly show Saturday Kitchen with Huang.

Since 2008, Hom has been an ambassador for Action Against Hunger, a humanitarian charity which works in over 40 countries helping families to feed their children and build a sustainable life.