Bobby Chinn and Vietnamese food arts

Bobby Chinn and Vietnamese food arts Opening a Vietnamese restaurant in Hanoi, Bobby Chinn, an American man born in New Zealand, has brought Vietnamese cuisines to the world. Part-Chinese, part-Egyptian and a California native, Bobby Chin is the host of a new show on the Travel & Living channel named World Café Asia, which brings audiences to street food of Asia. This show debuted in March 2007 and Bobby Chinn has been highly praised as the host. Coming to Vietnam for the first time ten years ago, Vietnamese cuisine enchanted Bobby Chinn. He decided to learn cooking Vietnamese food to open a Vietnamese restaurant in the US. Since then he has travelled very often between the US and Vietnam. His attachment to Vietnam became stronger when he opened a restaurant named after him at No. 1, Ba Trieu Street in Hanoi. He is also planning to open another in HCM City in the near future. Bobby Chinn has explored many regions in Vietnam, from the north to the south, and he has introduced many famous common restaurants of Vietnam on his show on Travel & Living. Bobby Chinn is a connoisseur of Vietnamese food. He knows many Vietnamese restaurants even better than Vietnamese people. He knows by heart many recipes of Vietnamese cuisine and can accurately guess the spices in Vietnamese cuisine. His forte is Vietnamese bun bo (beef noodle soup) and cha ca (fried fish). Bobby Chinn is also a guitarist. He has organised many performances at his restaurant, inviting many famous Vietnamese musicians like Tran Thu Ha, Hong Nhung, Thanh Lam and saxophonists Tran Manh Tuan and Quyen Van Minh to perform with him. He is writing a book about how to cook Vietnamese cuisine in English. “Vietnam is sweet, affectionate, and the country of lovely and warm people. I want to send my love to Vietnam through Vietnamese cuisines, music and books. That’s the flavour of my heart,” he said. Source Vietnamnet