Ken Huang was born in 1929 in Kobe, Japan. His father had moved there from Taiwan to open a bakery, which is also one of the reasons why he chose the food world as the object of his life's work.
黃建勳一九二九年出生在日本神戶，他父親從台灣嘉義到那兒開糕餅店，這也是他選擇食物世界做為一生投入對象的原因之一。