The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Diep Tran is a 3rd generation restaurateur/chef and the founder of The Banh Chung Collective. She is an advocate for better working conditions for restaurant workers. She’s appeared on Netflix’s Ugly Delicious, HBO Max’s Take Out with Lisa Ling, and KCET’s Migrant Kitchen.Most recently, she co-authored The Red Boat Cookbook with Cuong Pham and Tien Nguyen.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Alex Duong is a Los Angeles-based comedian, writer, and actor. He is the youngest of six children of Huong Thanh Le (tailor) and Noul Van Duong (machinist).His writings on the Vietnam War gained him a full-scholarship and eventually a meeting with producers in Orange County, CA. With the mild support of his parents, Duong left school to pursue a feature development deal with Melody Phan of Zenoost Media. The project "Enchanted Melody" ran into financing troubles and never found its way to theaters. The screenplay was turned into a stage play and was showcased at The East West Players Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles.Today, Alex continues to write, act, and perform stand-up all over the country. His most recent accomplishments include writing for Netflix's Historical Roast With Jeff Ross and becoming the first Vietnamese cis-male to perform on Comedy Central (Roast Battle Season 3). He lives with his wife in Los Angeles where they continue the pursuit of the best bowl of pho.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Uyen Le is currently the chef owner of Bé Ù in Los Angeles. Bé Ù opened in February 2021 and is a reflection of Chef-Owner Uyen Le's Vietnamese heritage and Southern California upbringing. It stands as a safe place for people from diverse backgrounds to work and hone their craft. Bé Ù seeks to make fresh and flavorful food at affordable prices while creating a safe, supportive, and professionally-rewarding environment for its team members.Before coming into the LA food scene, Uyen was the Research Director and Partnerships Director at the UCLA California Construction Academy (CCA) for 4 years. The CCA is a project of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education. Uyen led the Construction Sector Intermediary Program, which seeks to create quality construction career opportunities by building innovative and diverse partnerships in the construction industry. Uyen also served as a Dan Than fellow for the National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies (NAVASA), where she worked as a community organizer and economic development specialist in the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. In her volunteer time, Uyen is the co-founder and a planning committee member for the HBT School for Organizing. The HBT School for Organizing works with Vietnamese American youth to develop community organizing skills and to build their capacities to engage in progressive political action. Uyen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a Master in City Planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Ravenous Couple is Hong and Kim. They believe good food and cooking brings friends, family, and loves ones together—and keeps them together, hence their motto, Cooking Life Together. Raised in first generation immigrant Vietnamese-American families in opposite parts of the country, Hong and Kim both were nurtured with a love for Vietnamese heritage and cuisine.Their mission is to show you how authentic Vietnamese food is simple, fresh, and delicious. The Ravenous Couple shares recipes that reflects their cultural heritage as well as non-Vietnamese dishes, experimenting with new inspirations from around the world. Their love of good food knows no bounds and their appetite is insatiable. We hope you join them on their journey of cooking life together!https://theravenouscouple.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dan Nguyen is a Vietnamese American artist, creative director and music producer / DJ. Born and raised in Southern California and Saigon Vietnam, the multi-disciplinary artist grew updrawing surreal worlds influenced by a myriad of concepts, such as 70s LP artwork, obscure zines, nostalgic rave, graffiti, and US Asian culture.Continually pushing ideas and honing crafts, Dan maintains a delicate balance between personal and client based creative projects. He releases records and performs live as Demonslayer, curates and produces events and happenings all over the globe, designs and paints murals, daily involvement in multitude of tasks grounded in ideology and creation.Dan’s music and production journey has taken him on stage twice at Coachella, in addition to touring and jamming all over the world. His artwork continues to be adorned internationally on products, apparel, gallery walls and buildings, etc. His work, in its many forms, promotes self awareness, unlocking hidden potential and uplifting various marginalized communities.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oanh Thu Thi Ly was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She immigrated to America as a boat refugee and grew up in Houston, Texas. She studied playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin where she was a recipient of a James Michener Playwriting Fellowship.She started her TV writing career on the hit CBS crime show  Criminal Minds.  Other broadcast credits include the Bad Robot/NBC show Revolution, The Messengers for CW,  Black Box for ABC, and  The Catch for Shondaland/ABC.  Streaming credits include Sweet Tooth and the entire run ofThe Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Currently, she is writing a TV pilot based on an Archie Comics for Warner Brothers Studios with fellow Vietnamese Texan, Viet Nguyen. She mentors young writers at the Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, where she got her start in Los Angeles over twenty years ago.She lives in Culver City with her husband, Ron, and daughter, Linh. Her favorite Vietnamese foods are banh xeo, che ba mau, che troi nuoc, banh cuon and bun bo hue.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Đoan Hoàng is a Vietnamese-American documentary film director, producer, editor, and writer. She directed and produced the 2007 documentary Oh, Saigon about her family, after leaving Vietnam on the last civilian helicopter as Saigon fell.The documentary won several awards at film festivals and was broadcast on PBS from 2008 to 2012. Hoang was selected to be a delegate to Spain for the American Documentary Showcase.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Anh Hong Rucker is a cloud security architect and senior cybersecurity engineer at JPL NASA in Pasadena, California.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tony Vu, founder of Flint Social Club, has been invested in building community and countering the toxic culture of the food world since his start in the industry. As chef/owner of noodle stall MaMang in the Flint Farmers’ Market, he’s committed to paying living wages to his employees and fostering a safe and supportive work culture. As executive chef/partner of fast casual restaurant The Good Bowl in Traverse City, he’s built upon these values and expanded them to create a business model that gives back to the community. The Good Bowl’s dollar per bowl donation model has raised and donated over $100,000 to mostly local charities in 3 years of operation. Tony was a fellow of the 2020 Detroit Food Lab Fellowship for Change in Food and Labor, which gathered food justice leaders from around the country and held conversations that planted the seeds for a radical new food system based in equity, possibility, power, and dignity for all. His work and advocacy for Flint has been featured in numerous media outlets including The Food Network, Vice Magazine, and the Detroit Free Press; and he was profiled in the Square documentary Forged in Flint. For his work with Flint Social Club, Tony was recognized as one of the most important entrepreneurs of the past decade by Inc Magazine alongside luminaries such as Elon Musk and Hamdi Ulukaya. Tony brings a wealth of real world experience in building food businesses from the ground up, having gotten his start with popups that quickly grew into the food truck Wraps n’ Rolls.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A diplomat for nearly thirty years, Ted Osius served from 2014 to 2017 as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, a country he has loved since serving there in the 1990s, when he helped open the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City and was one of the first U.S. diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Leading a mission team of 900, Ambassador Osius devised and implemented strategies to deepen security ties, sign tens of billions of dollars’ worth of commercial deals, expand educational exchange, conclude agreements on trade, law enforcement, environmental protection, and address honestly a difficult past. Ambassador Osius’ leadership helped bring about a positive transformation in U.S.-Vietnam relations.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy