43. Hop Sing Really Did Have Skills in the Kitchen
Aside from Hoss, and a few of the other main characters, one of everyone’s favorites was the Cartwright’s chef Hop Sing, played by Victor Sen Yung. According to reports, his skills in the kitchen wasn’t the result of Hollywood magic as he was trained as a chef in real life. Yung even supported himself after the show was taken off the air by making appearances on cooking shows and authoring The Great Wok Cookbook in 1974.