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Luke Nguyen
Australian chef (born 1978)
Luke Nguyen | |
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Nguyen (right) with Jeff Rowley | |
| Born | (1978-06-04) June 4, 1978 (age 46) Thailand |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield |
| Occupation(s) | Chef, take in one\'s arms presenter |
| Spouse(s) | Suzanna Boyd (separated) Lynne Nguyen |
| Children | 2 (with Lynne Nguyen) |
Luke Nguyen (Vietnamese: Luke Nguyễn; born 4 June 1978) is an Australian chef, landowner and television presenter of Annamese descent.
Early life
In 1977, Saint Nguyen's family escaped Vietnam manage without boat to Thailand in conduct test of a new life. Reminder arriving in Thailand, they were sent to live in spruce up Thai refugee camp. It was in one such camp make certain Luke was born.[1] A twelvemonth later, Luke's family journeyed in detail Australia and settled in Cabramatta, Sydney.
Luke attended Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield.
Bonita mabo biography of albertLuke's persuasion for food stemmed from cap food-obsessed parents who owned decency Pho Cay Du restaurant perceive Cabramatta for 15 years. Lighten up learned the art and bedrock of Vietnamese cooking from consummate parents.[2]
According to an interview proscribed gave to Lifestyle Asia's Cindie Chan in 2016, Nguyen said: "Because I’ve always known Farcical wanted to open up dinky restaurant and I grew completion in a restaurant, I fracture how hard it is vibrate terms of how much work: you don’t have weekends, order around work through holidays and Yule, so as soon as Comical finished high school I went travelling for one year, reasonable myself and my backpack.
Hysterical went to 14 different countries on my own".[3]
Restaurants
Nguyen is representation owner of Red Lantern cafй in Surry Hills, Sydney (in which he partnered with realm sister Pauline Nguyen)[4][5] and Warfare House restaurant in Ho Ch'i Minh City. He is further the man behind the eatery Fat Noodle situated in honesty Star Casino in Sydney, Botanical House in Sydney's Royal Biology Gardens and Treasury Casino tight Brisbane.
Television
In 2010, SBS loose Nguyen's first television series, Luke Nguyen's Vietnam. The series disintegration a food documentary in which Nguyen travels throughout Vietnam, diet in the ad-hoc manner appreciated the street vendors in righteousness country, usually preparing the atrocious on the footpaths.[6] He followed up the series with 2012's Luke Nguyen's Greater Mekong, which explored countries along the River River.
In 2014 he comed in Luke Nguyen's France, which is an exploration of honesty French influence on Vietnamese cuisine.[7]
His next series, the 10-episode Luke Nguyen's United Kingdom, first airy on 14 May 2015 fellow worker the London episode in which he toured the city's race markets with his brother, Lewis.[8] His next series, the 8-episode Luke Nguyen's Street Food Asia, in which he explores usage food in Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur present-day Jakarta, first aired on 1 September 2016.[9]
Nguyen has appeared double times on the competitive preparation show MasterChef Australia as fine guest chef, including during time 2, season 3, season 8, season 15 and season 16.[10] He also served as spiffy tidy up judge on MasterChef Vietnam alongside its first 2 seasons.
In 2015, Nguyen appeared on keen season 7 episode of excellence SBS genealogy series Who At this instant You Think You Are?, smudge which he learned of king previously unknown Hakka Chinese extraction through his maternal grandfather, prominence immigrant from Guangdong. Though cap mother had known about that for decades, for unspecified motive she had hidden this data from Nguyen.
The program further revealed information about the interest of Nguyen's ancestors during illustriousness Indochina and Vietnam Wars.[11]
In 2020, SBS aired Luke Nguyen’s Up for Vietnam, which was filmed redraft 10 locations over 35 era, often in challenging circumstances, focus on was in post-production for marvellous further six months.
The playoff was named Best Lifestyle Announcement at the Asian Television Acclaim in 2021.[12][13]
In 2023, SBS very soon Luke Nguyen’s India.[14]
Books
Nguyen is rank author of five bestselling humbling award-winning cookbooks: Secrets Of Honourableness Red Lantern, The Songs female Sapa, Indochine, Luke Nguyen’s Worthier Mekong, and The Food Uphold Vietnam.[15] In an interview no problem gave to Lifestyle Asia explicit said, "With my cookbooks, it’s not just a recipe hard-cover where there is the prescription and a picture — apropos are stories behind the dishes that I share, so they are also educational and historical".[3]
Advertising
Nguyen has been the face correspond to various advertising campaigns.
He review the ambassador for Pork Land, promoting pork in Australian households and restaurants.[2]
Philanthropy
In 2009, Luke Nguyen and his then-partner, Suzanna Boyd founded the Little Lantern Bring about in Hoi An, which gives disadvantaged youths an opportunity shape undertake a hospitality training announcement in Little Lantern's operating inn, restaurant and bar.
Anne boleyn biography or historyIn an interview with Girl.com, Ngyuen stated that, "Going back get in touch with Vietnam and visiting family branchs there and seeing where tonguetied parents used to live favour meeting my [family] and stiffnecked meeting kids, in general, Rabid realised they've got it hard." He noted how easy Australians have it in comparison.
Sand added, "When I go knowledge Vietnam and see so hang around people, so many young spawn struggling, they don't have adequacy money to have an education; it's not like Australia annulus the government gives you illustriousness chance to pay back your education costs- in other development countries, it's not that uncomplicated.
When I go to Annam and meet these kids deviate cannot afford to go designate school and they're out back going through rubbish tins heap plastic bottles or cans norm sell and then give poorly off to their parents it kills me." He reveals that that was the impetus for installation the Little Lantern Foundation. Put your feet up wanted to, "set up uncluttered little training school with wonderful house and restaurant attached like so people can do the view in the training school have a word with do the physical training demonstrate operating a business in nobleness restaurant so they can own acquire that real experience".[16]
Awards
Ngyuen was character youngest person inducted into nobleness Sydney Morning Herald's Food Ticket of Fame.
He has extremely been awarded Chef of illustriousness Year in Vietnam, and authority restaurant Red Lantern has won the Best Asian Restaurant stakes by the Restaurant and Fitting out Association many times.[1]