Famous Vietnamese Chefs

1. Christine Ha

Christine Ha, a Vietnamese-American chef and writer from Houston Texas is the first blind winner of the third season of MasterChef in 2012. In 1999, she started losing her vision and became almost blind by 2007.

Ha is as known as a famous chef but in fact she finished her business degree from University of Texas and Master of fine art degree for creative fiction in the creative writing program in 2012.  She reveived the poetry prize from the Scissor Tale Review and was the finalist in Creative Nonfiction MFA contest in 2010.

Ha has never been to any cooking course but she have had a large followers on her food blog. In Master Chef 2012, Ha won 7 times in 19 episodes of the competition in term of individual and team challenges. Finally, Ha was pronounced the winner of the competition with the prizes including $250,000 and the MasterChef trophy. She is the first blind winner of this competition.

2. Luke Nguyen

Luke Nguyen, a Vietnamese-Australian chef, is famous for being the host of well-known television series “Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam”. This is the series about food documentary along Vietnam. Also, he is known as the owner of a restaurant in Sydney named Red Lantern and author of lots of cooking books.

Luke Nguyen was invited as a guess chef in MasterChef Australia and currently is considered MasterChef Vietnam.

3. Hung Huynh

Hung Huynh is the winner of 2007 Top Chef. He was born in Vietnam and raised in Massachusetts. His career started in a Vietnamese restaurant belong to his immigrant parent. Hung completed his degree in Culinary Institute of America. In the moment, he has opened an Asian restaurant with the EMM Group in America.