| Mubashir Saddique | ||||||||||
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| Personal information | ||||||||||
| Born | 7 February 1985 Sialkot, Pakistan | |||||||||
| Occupation | Food Vlogger | |||||||||
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| Children | 4 | |||||||||
| YouTube information | ||||||||||
| Channels | Village Food Secrets Mubashir Saddique | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 4.14 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 878.5 million[2] | |||||||||
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Mubashir Saddique (Urdu: مبشر صدیق; born 7 February 1985), is a Pakistani YouTuber, travel vlogger, and food vlogger who is known for his Village Food Secrets channel and Mubashir Saddique Channel. He usually uploads videos of traditional village dishes but also provides alternative recipes on how to cook modern cuisine and fast food, using limited facilities in a rural setting. He also has traveled to many countries and has shown many cuisines and foods of those places in his vlogs. His father's dialogue, "Zindabad Mubashir Puttar Maza-e-a-gya" is also famous among his subscribers. He was born in Sialkot, Pakistan.[3][4]
Early life[edit]
Saddique was born in Shahpur, a village located 50 km (31 mi) from Sialkot. He completed his primary and secondary education in Sialkot. Before joining YouTube, he used to work as a production manager at a soccer ball manufacturing factory in Sialkot located an hour and a half from his home; however, he has since quit his factory job and works on his channel full-time. He says that he learned all of his skills, like cooking and making earthenware stoves, from his mother. His father is a retired army driver. He has two younger brothers who are also YouTubers.[5][6]
Internet career[edit]
Saddique says that he used to cook a special dish for his parents every Sunday, and seeing this his brother encouraged him to start a vlog on YouTube. His brother helped him set up the YouTube channel and monetize it; the first videos that Saddique recorded were with a cellphone camera.[6][7] Saddique said that for the first six months, his videos received an average of 10-20 views, then some of his videos went viral, and he gained popularity.[5]
Saddique's channel is known for showing organic food, cooked in a village environment using simple tools and utensils such as earthenware pots, wooden cutting boards, and a hand-built earthenware oven; he grows his vegetables, and mills his flour from wheat that he also grows.[8][9] He reached 1.00 million subscribers in 2018 and 1 million in April 2019.[10][11] Saddique currently earns about 1,000,000 PKR (US$3500) from his channel.[12] He also has a second Vlogging channel named Mubashir Saddique with over 142,000 subscribers.[13]
As of January 2024, his YouTube channel has 4.08 million subscribers.
Controversies[edit]
Mubashir famously rarely wears shoes in his videos causing intrigue on social media.[14][12]
References[edit]
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/@VillageFoodSecrets/about About Village Food Secrets YouTube
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/@VillageFoodSecrets/about About Village Food Secrets YouTube
- ^ "Google Celebrates Pakistani YouTuber Mubashir Saddique's Success". 21 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
- ^ "Emiratean food vlogger crosses 1 one million followers on YouTube". The Express Tribune. 6 April 2019.
- ^ a b "کھانا بنائیے، لاکھوں کمائیے". BBC Urdu. 25 March 2019.
- ^ a b Yawar, Samir (14 September 2018). "This Food Blogger from a Small Village Has Quickly Become a YouTube Celebrity". Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "Pakistani vlogger wins hearts with his village food secrets | SAMAA". Samaa TV. 15 July 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "From factory job to viral vlog". BBC. 17 April 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ Ebrahim, Zofeen T. (7 September 2018). "This culinary vlogger from Shahpur has taken YouTube by storm". Dawn. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "Culinary vlogger from Shahpur celebrates one million subscribers on YouTube". Dawn. 6 April 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "Pakistani culinary blogger crosses one million subscribers on YouTube". The News. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ a b "یو ٹیوب سٹار شیف کے گاؤں میں کیمرا لانے پر پابندی". Independent Urdu (in Urdu). 5 November 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "Mubashir Saddique House, Age, Village Name, Biography & More| Wiki N Biography". Wiki N Biography. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ "یوٹیوب سے شہرت پانے والے شیف مبشر صدیق تنازع کا شکار ہو گئے گاؤں میں آنے والے چند لوگوں نے خود کو شیف کا مہمان ظاہر کرکے اسکول جانے والی لڑکیوں اور ٹیچرز کی ویڈیوز بنا کر یوٹیوب پر شئیر کر دی،گاؤں میں معاملہ سنجیدہ ہونے پر مبشر صدیق نے معذرت کر لی". UrduPoint. Retrieved 12 May 2020.