Luke Nguyen ( vi, Luke Nguyễn; born 8 September 1978) is a Vietnamese–Australian chef and restaurateur, best known as the host of the television series, ''

Luke Nguyen's Vietnam ''Luke Nguyen's Vietnam'' is an Australian television series first screened on SBS One in 2010. The series follows chef, Luke Nguyen, as he tours Vietnam seeking culinary delights and adventure. It is regularly broadcast on Good Food, a UK food- ...

and Luke Nguyen's France''. The former is a food documentary in which he travels through Vietnam, cooking in the ad hoc manner of the street vendors in the country, usually preparing the dish on the footpaths, and the latter is an exploration of the

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influence on Vietnamese cuisine. He is a judge on the television series ''

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''. Following his first two series, the 10-episode ''Luke Nguyen's United Kingdom'', first aired on 14 May 2015 with the

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episode in which he toured the city's food markets with his brother, Lewis. In his most recent series, the 8 episode ''Luke Nguyen's Street Food Asia'', first aired on 1 September 2016 he explores street food in

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and

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. He is the owner of Red Lantern restaurant in Surry Hills,

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and Vietnam House restaurant in

and is the author of a number of cookbooks. He is also the man behind the restaurant Fat Noodle situated in the Star Casino

and Treasury Casino in

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. In 2009, Luke Nguyen and his then-partner, Suzanna Boyd founded the Little Lantern Foundation in Hoi An, which gives disadvantaged youths an opportunity to undertake a hospitality training program in Little Lantern's operating hotel – restaurant and bar. Nguyen has appeared multiple times on the competitive cooking show ''

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'' as a guest chef, including season 2 episode 8, and season 8 episode 31. Nguyen appeared on the season 7, episode 3 of the SBS genealogy series, Who Do You Think You Are? in which he learned of his previously unknown

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Chinese ancestry through his maternal grandfather, an immigrant from Guangdong. Though his mother had known about this for decades, for unspecified reasons she had hidden this information from Nguyen. The program also revealed information about the involvement of Nguyen's ancestors during the

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and

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References

External links

Luke Nguyen's restaurantEpisode guide Luke Nguyen's Vietnam Series 1Episode guide Luke Nguyen's Vietnam Series 2Episode guide Luke Nguyen's FranceEpisode guide Luke Nguyen's United KingdomEpisode guide Luke Nguyen's Street Food Asia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nguyen, Luke 1978 births Living people Vietnamese television chefs Vietnamese chefs People from Hanoi People from Sydney Australian people of Vietnamese descent Australian people of Chinese descent Thai emigrants to Australia