Bryan Koh is an award-winning author of five cookbooks. His breakthrough, Milk Pigs & Violet Gold (2014), won the Best Food Book Award at the Philippine National Book Awards. Its second edition Milkier Pigs & Violet Gold was released in 2020.

His second book, Mornings are for Mohinga, Burmese Food Stories (2015), won third place in the Best Asian Cookbook category at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2016. His third book, Bekwoh (2018) focused on the food of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia, his fourth Tamu, on the food of Borneo. 

Bryan majored in Mathematics at the National University of Singapore and has a Masters in Management Hospitality from Cornell University. He lives in Singapore and is co-owner of cake company Chalk Farm.