Zuu Mei Chang

Zu Mei Chang is a metallurgist and Anti-Akuma Weapon manufacturer, as well as Head Chef of the Asia Branch of the Black Order. He is Bak Chang's great-uncle.

Appearance
Zu is short and somewhat rotund. He is largely bald, mainly on the top of his head, and what hair he has left on the back of his head is long and always pulled back into a ponytail. When not dressed in his chefs attire, Zu wears a loose white shirt and loose dark pants, with a sleeveless cloak over it. He has diamond-shaped tattoos on the top of his head, and he wears a monocle in his left eye.

Personality
Zu is a kind old man who usually, and likely purposefully, acts a bit dense and out of it, though this could also be attributed to his old age. He knows when to act serious, though, and because of his comforting but sober attitude when he is required to be serious, he is one of the few people Yu Kanda confides in. He cares deeply for Kanda and Alma Karma, and seems to bear some guilt over what happened to them even though he was never official part of the Second Exorcist Project. When he found out Alma was still alive, he cried and expressed his anger to his former student, Malcolm C. Lvellie, upset with him for keeping Alma alive after what they (the Black Order) had done to him.

History
Zu was once the greatest sorcerer of the Chang family and worked at Central as a powerful official, where Malcolm C. Lvellie was one of his students. He was the smith who forged Yu Kanda's Mugen, and he also taught Jeryy how to cook.

Third Exorcist's arc
He is seen in the manga when Kanda revisits the Asia Branch. Referred to as "Old Man Zu" by For. Perhaps the only person who has talked to Kanda about Kanda's seeing lotuses around himself. He tells Kanda not to mind them; that they are just "illusions".

Abilities
Master Sorcerer: When he was younger, Zu was considered to be the greatest sorcerer of the Chang family, the bloodlines of which trace back to an extremely powerful German sorcerer who was one of the founding members of the Black Order. Though his abilities have, presumably, waned much in his old age, he is still shown to be able to cast powerful healing spells, if only for a short amount of time.

Trivia

 * Because Lvellie was one of his students, Zu is one of the few people who calls him by his first name.