He was born in Melbourne, Australia and is the son of martial arts instructors, Barry and Anne Pang of Melbourne's highly respected Barry Pang Kung Fu Schools. He is fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese. While his parents both grew up in Australia, Pang's father's side of the family is from Canton, China, and his mother's family was the first Taiwanese family to immigrate to Australia - per his mother, as told to her family by immigration at the time.