Vietnamese-Australian chef savors Manila food crawl
VIETNAMESE-AUSTRALIAN chef and restaurateur Luke Nguyen has a better understanding of Philippine cuisine after embarking on a food crawl around the capital of Manila.
Resto-hopping around Intramu - sinigangnabangus crispy
and the ever-challenging experience of eating balut.
“I have a better understanding the celebrity chef from Down Under admitted at a round table interested to explore more about the regionality and diversity of the Filipino cuisine.”
to go all around the country and explore the Philippines’ islands and villages. He was in the country to do research for a much a bigger project—to change the perception of Asian cuisine around the world where it is thought that there are merely two specialties per country in the continent.
“I love to show the diversity of cuisine and share to the world that it’s not just about bahnmi in Vietnam and adobo in the Philip he enthused.
“Trave l ing around A s i a a n d to the seen the rise of Korean restaurants. I
Nguyen immediately tries out pork chicharon after landing in Manila think hi k the h next one will ill be b VietVi namese cuisine. I see younger chefs working around the world and doing innovative and modern Vietnamese cooking and bringing a twist to old recipes.”
Nguyen included live cooking which held a day-long festival at Bonifacio High Street on Novemer 4. He shared the spotlight with TLC’s popular hosts Buddy Lee and Sharon Huang of “Fun Troy Montero from “Worst Vaca de Veyra and Angel Rivero from Discovery Channel’s “You Have Been Warned Asia.”
“Luke Nguyen’s Street Food Asia” back to Manila to do an episode on street food like adidas (chicken feet) and helmet (chicken head).
tour and explore more of your cuisine because I believe there is so much more to savor in
the Philippines.” For his four- day visit to Manila, Nguyen led live cooking demo at BGC