Luke Nguyen Parents: Who are Lap Nguyen Cen and Cue Phuong Nguyen?

Lap Nguyen Cen and Cue Phuong Nguyen are the parents of famous chef, Luke Nguyen. According to sources, the family escaped Vietnam by boat to Thailand in search of a new life in 1977.

When they arrived in Thailand, they were sent to live in a Thai refugee camp, and that was where Luke was born. The family moved again to Australia and settled in Cabramatta, Sydney.

Lap Nguyen Cen and Cue Phuong Nguyen owned a restaurant called ‘Pho Cay Du’ in Cabramatta for 15 years, where Luke learned the fundamentals of Vietnamese cooking from.

“Because I’ve always known I wanted to open up a restaurant and I grew up in a restaurant, I know how hard it is in terms of how much work: you don’t have weekends, you work through holidays and Christmas, as as soon as I finished high school I went traveling for one year, just myself and my backpack. I went to 14 different countries on my own,” Luke Nguyen once shared.