DENVER (KDVR) — An area Denver chef, Thoa Nguyen, was featured on Season 10 of Meals Community’s Vacation Baking Championship. She made it to the ultimate episode, which aired on Dec. 18.
Nguyen grew up with cooking. Her mother and father owned a restaurant in Denver named New Saigon. However her cooking profession began when she was 14 years previous.
Nguyen’s household primarily ate Vietnamese meals. However when Thoa was watching Giada De Laurentiis on Meals Community cook dinner shrimp scampi. The one Italian meals they’d tried was Olive Backyard. She determined to make the recipe for her household.
They fell in love with the meal, and she or he fell in love with cooking.
Nguyen now owns a store of her personal, known as Bánh & Butter Bakery Cafe in Aurora, which is how Meals Community discovered her.
It began with a $5 advert to advertise her enterprise.
Final winter she was making xmas log truffles and wished to indicate individuals what was on the market.
“That little $5 advert was like the very best $5 I’ve ever spent in my life as a result of then I bought a name from the casting,” mentioned Nguyen.
The subsequent factor she knew, she was competing for $25,000.
Nguyen made it to the ultimate 4, however Ashley Landerman received the present.
Whereas Nguyen didn’t win the ultimate, she’s not against premiering in one other present sooner or later — simply possibly not a cake present.
“I feel lots of people know that I’m a pastry chef, however I don’t suppose that they know that I’m additionally culinary. And so if I had been to do even one other competitors, I wouldn’t thoughts it being culinary or baking,” mentioned Nguyen.
