Wang Cheng

* Wang
* Kung Food

**Wang Cheng** (also called **Cheng Shifu**, meaning "**Master Cheng**") is a famous and highly skilled Chinese chef, as well as the owner and head chef of the Thousand Delights restaurant. He is also Sabine's uncle and Marinette's great uncle.

In "Kung Food", he comes to Paris for the *World's Greatest Chef contest*. After Chloé sabotages his Celestial Soup and makes him lose the competition, he is infected with an akuma by Hawk Moth and becomes **Kung Food**, a chef-themed supervillain.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Wang Cheng is at medium height and he is overweight, having short black hair and brown eyes. His eyebrows are long and thick, and he has a small mustache beneath his nose with a gap in the middle, as well as a small, squared beard on the tip of his chin.

### Civilian attire

He wears a chef uniform, which includes a white chef hat, a light gray shirt with sleeves rolled to his elbows and four buttons on the left side, and light gray pants. His shoes are black and he carries a brown leather side satchel with the strap going over his left shoulder.

### As Kung Food

Kung Food has pale, light grayish purple skin, golden sclerae, and vivid orange eyes. There are red marks on his forehead, around his mouth, and around his chin. His eyebrows are thick silver markings with curled ends. His hair, mustache, and beard are blond, his hair spiky and wildly pointing upwards. He still wears his chef hat and his satchel, the side of his satchel now bearing a brown mandarin symbol, which means "Kung Food," within a circle. He wears an orange sleeveless karate tunic with short, tattered sleeves and a dark brown collar, along with a black belt wrapped around his waist. On the right side of his chest, there is a red circle with a white outline and white Mandarin characters which read "Kung Food" inside. There are black strands of fabric wrapped around his lower legs, and his shoes are black with tan soles.

## Personality

Wang is a soft-spoken, respectful and pleasant man who appreciates the kindness of his great-niece Marinette Dupain-Cheng. He works hard at cooking and struggles with failure as he doesn't like being tricked.

As Kung Food, he is vengeful and furious as he is displeased with Chloé Bourgeois for ruining his soup and planning to get back at her by cooking her into a soup that he calls Brat Soup.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

Wang is an excellent cook, who wins the title of The World's Greatest Chef. His cooking style involves improvising with whatever life brings him that day. His most notable dish is Celestial Soup, which he would later rename Marinette Soup after his great-niece.

While his native language is Mandarin, he is able to speak a little English, although he states his abilities are terrible. He later studied hard to improve his English so it would be easier for him to communicate with his foreign relatives, and he developed the ability to speak English much more fluently.

### As Kung Food

Everybody who tasted Kung Food's tampered soup prior to him being akumatized is brought under his control as minions, and gain enhanced martial arts abilities. As a sign of this, their eyes turn as a same color as Kung Food's eyes with darker orange sclerae.

* People who ate soup now minions.
* A flying rice ball.
* Indestructible caramel used to coat the outside of a building.
* Swimming pool full of broth.
* Jagged Stone with a seafood mace.
* André Bourgeois with a flail made of sausage and potatoes.
* Alec Cataldi with a cheese crossbow.
* Marlena Césaire with a candy bow and arrows.
* Kung Food in combat with his sushi tonfas.
* Burrito bo staff.
* Kung Food blinding his opponent with red pepper powder.
* Kung Food facing the heroes with his pizza sword.
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Kung Food also can create any food-based weapon he desires with his satchel. He can either wield these weapons himself or give them to his minions.

The objects and weapons he produced include:

* Flying rice balls that can record footage like a camera while another rice ball projects a hologram of that footage.
* A swimming pools worth of soup broth, described as being well balanced and not greasy.
* Pots of indestructible caramel that can be used to seal off exits.
* A mace made out of seafood.
* A flail made out of potatoes, sausages, lettuce/cabbages and carrots.
* A crossbow made of cheese that fires stinky cheese bombs.
* A bow and arrows made out of candy and chocolate.
* Tonfas made out of sushi rolls.
* A bo staff made out of and elongated burrito.
* A dust of red pepper powder that can blind the person's eyes.
* A sword made out of pepperoni pizza.

## Family

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    = **Male**

    = **Female**

    = **Gender Unknown**

### Notes

* In China, wives do not usually take on their husband's surname, keeping their own. Children usually take the father's surname.
* In "Miraculous Shanghai", it's mentioned that Wang raised Sabine. However, the reason for this is unknown.

## Relationships

### Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Wang meets his great-niece when he visits her house before the World's Greatest Chef contest. While it's not initially obvious to Marinette, Wang cares for her and appreciates her kindness and hospitality. He uses the flowers she gives him in his soup and, after losing the contest, realizes that Marinette was right about Chloé sabotaging his dish. When remaking his soup, Wang Cheng shows Marinette how to make it when she requests he show her, and he renames it after her.

Prior to visiting Paris, Wang was unaware of who Ladybug is. After being akumatized into Kung Food, Hawk Moth explains who Ladybug and Cat Noir are and Kung Food decides to cook them in his "Brat Soup" in order to give it "superhero flavor."

### Adrien Agreste/Chat Noir

Wang gets along well with Adrien, conversing with him in Chinese on their drive to Le Grand Paris and telling him how he plans to use Marinette's flower gift to decorate his dish.

Much like with Ladybug, Wang was unaware of who Cat Noir is before visiting Paris and wants to cook him in his soup after becoming Kung Food.

### Chloé Bourgeois

Wang Cheng didn't think much of Chloé until he realizes that she ruined his soup for the contest, much to his anger. When transformed into Kung Food, he has her captured and plans to get revenge on her by cooking her into "Brat Soup".

## Trivia

* Adrien and Hawk Moth both refer to him as an artist.
* Wang is the first akumatized character who doesn't appear in the theme song.
	+ He was originally meant to appear in the theme song, however, as seen in the animatic.
* He is the first akumatized character to be related to Marinette.
	+ Other akumatized characters to be as such include her grandmother Gina Dupain, her father Tom Dupain, her grandfather Rolland Dupain, and her mother Sabine Cheng.
* Kung Food's face markings are a reference to the Monkey King.
	+ Kung Food's name is a pun on the Chinese martial art, kung fu.
	+ Kung Food's design might also reference Goku's Super Saiyan form from *Dragon Ball Z*. Goku's design, in turn, is based on the Monkey King.
		- Adding to the Dragon Ball connections, the character's English voice actor, Todd Haberkorn is also known for voicing Android 19 in Dragon Ball Z, Kai and Jaco in Dragon Ball Super.
* Kung Food appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer's powers.
* A statue of Kung Food appears in the Musée Grévin in "The Puppeteer 2".
* Wang returns in "Miraculous Shanghai" special for his 60th birthday.
	+ In accordance with Chinese tradition, his 60th birthday was the first one he ever celebrated.
* In "Miraculous Shanghai" it is made known that Wang Cheng raised Sabine, they never say how he became her guardian.

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ https://www.twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/686178161491591168
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/686632858765627392

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