Meet Mike Chen, the YouTube food star who just moved to this Dallas suburb ‘Mikey’ Chen grew up working in his parents’ Chinese buffet restaurants all around the country. Now he calls Allen home. Mike Chen is a YouTube food vlogger who recently moved to Allen. He serves his millions of YouTube subscribers fun, educational, videos about small restaurants around the world.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer) “You get hungry every day, so you might as well film it.” That’s the attitude of Mike Chen, whose full-time job is to post videos on YouTube from his food adventures all over the world. His videos — many that eclipse 1 million views each — will highlight Dallas-area business more than ever, now that Chen has relocated from Seattle to the Dallas suburb of Allen.