Rachel Khoo (born 28 August 1980) is an English cook, writer and broadcaster, with her own BBC cooking series. She is also founder and editor-in-chief of online lifestyle magazine Khoollect.
Khoo was born in Croydon, South London. She has a younger brother named Michael. She attended primary school in Bromley. Her paternal family were Chinese immigrants to Malaysia and were part of the Khoo Kongsi clanhouse located in George Town, Penang. Her father is Malaysian Chinese and emigrated from Ipoh to the UK at aged 16 in 1968, one year before the Malaysian riots. He later met and married her mother, an Austrian native. At 12, her father's job in IT forced the family to move to Bavaria, where they lived in the countryside outside Munich for four years. They returned to the UK when Rachel was 16. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and earned a degree in art and design.