Career
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 French influence on Vietnamese cuisine. He appeared on MasterChef Australia (season 2) as a guest chef. He is a judge on the television series MasterChef Vietnam.
He is the owner of Red Lantern restaurant in Surry Hills, Sydney, and is the author of a number of cookbooks.
He is also the man behind the restaurant Fat Noodle situated in the Treasury Hotel & Casino in Brisbane, Queensland. Nguyen appeared on the season 7, episode 3 of the Business School genealogy series, Who Do You Think You Are?.