Nguyen Dzoan Cam Van - Legend of Vietnamese cuisine after 3 years of being a monk, how is it now?

Experiencing many ups and downs and storms of life, the queen of Vietnamese chefs - Nguyen Dzoan Cam Van decided to become a Buddhist disciple. Now, she is at peace with the identity of monk Tue Van.

Culinary artist Nguyen Dzoan Cam Van is a name associated with beautiful names such as "Vietnamese kitchen legend", "food legend", "food life guide"... about two decades ago. . As a familiar face of the program "Kyi with hands or doing", she is loved by the public for her gentle, inspiring way of speaking and pure Vietnamese cooking recipes.

Before the "halo" of fame, Mrs. Cam Van's private life had many turbulences. She was born in Hanoi, followed her family to Gia Lai from a young age.

When she grew up, her parents sent her to Saigon to study, live and get married. She lived peacefully in her family, working as a literature teacher at Nguyen Thuong Hien High School.

Mrs. Cam Van once confided that, being the youngest child in the family, from a young age she lived in a family routine, loved and pampered, had a soft, even weak personality. But the storms of life made her strong and strong to live.

When her mother had a heart disease and passed away, it was a huge shock that almost knocked out Mrs. Cam Van's will. Then the youngest son also developed heart disease when he was only a few years old. In order to have money to cover her life, in addition to teaching hours, she also receives knitting, crocheting, embroidery, sewing...

In order to save his son's life, in 1989, Nguyen Dzoan Cam Van decided to quit his job and take him to Australia for treatment, with only $25 ($5 of his own and $20 of a friend's help). She has lived in Australia for more than a year, working to earn money to treat her youngest son, and sending money back to her husband to raise her eldest son in Vietnam.

Returning to Vietnam, she was "unemployed", so she applied to Tan Binh Vocational Training Center to teach baking and cooking art. The experience of cooking in the family, the sophistication in culinary sense have helped her quickly succeed in opening a cooking class.

In 1993, the program Clever hands or doing invited her to be an MC, a cooking guide for millions of television viewers. This is the leverage that makes the name Nguyen Dzoan Cam Van become extremely famous, being "hunted" by many culinary programs.

She also became a culinary lecturer for universities and restaurants and published her autobiography, dozens of cookbooks with thousands of pure Vietnamese recipes. She is also an artist who actively promotes Vietnamese cuisine, owning 3 restaurants in Saigon.

By 2012, female chefs gradually appeared less on television and in teaching programs. She almost retreated to hermitage and took refuge in the Buddha's door, vowing to dedicate herself to creating and introducing 500 vegetarian dishes to those who are just starting to learn about eating plants as well as vegetarians with more recipes. nutritious cooking.

Thinking that the following years would only be peaceful, suddenly in 2014, her eldest son died at the age of 35. In 2014, her healthy son suddenly had a cerebrovascular accident and passed away. after a period of deep coma. Indeed, her whole life Nguyen Dzoan Cam Van sacrificed everything for her children, so this shock was too much for her to bear. Months after her son's death, she was still in a state of constant sleeplessness, and she missed her son deeply.

After that, she sent her heart to the Buddha's door, went to Truc Lam Zen Monastery in Dalat to help cook vegetarian dishes, hoping that the burden in her heart would ease.

Then, once meeting Venerable Thich Thanh Tu, the monk put his hand on her forehead and said a sentence that made her think forever: "Why are you so sad, let go of me." She spent many nights looking for the answer to that sentence, and realized that she needed to let go of the suffering, let go of the sexual desires of the human world, and let go of the melancholy of missing her dead son.

After that meeting, she was no longer Nguyen Dzoan Cam Van, but decided to cut her hair and become a monk with the dharma name Tue Van, 2019. The image of a Vietnamese culinary legend smiling peacefully with a monk's robe on the day of the day. surprised the audience.

Open a YouTube channel of vegetarian cuisine, continue to spread the love of cooking

For a long time after she cut her hair, she almost did not appear on the media or social networks. The public guessed that she was in hiding, living a peaceful monastic life, because she had already gone through all the experiences of life. Then she reappeared on social networks, on Facebook and YouTube platforms.

In a livestream, journalist Hoang Nguyen Vu invited Mrs. Cam Van to join in with the hope that she could share about her life since ordination. She shared: "She can't practice at the temple but at home for health reasons. Her dream is to continue to spread vegetarian food to everyone, but it is unknown at the moment. She has completed 500 dishes. It was only after becoming a vegetarian that she left home to become a monk. At the time, she thought it was a lot, but now it's not enough. People still want to learn more, so she's thinking."

After a period of incubation, the Vietnamese chef queen decided to open a Youtube channel that teaches cooking, named Tue Van. Youtube channel with very rich content, showing the passion of a lifetime of culinary. The vegetarian dishes of Nguyen Dzoan Cam Van are appreciated by many as being very simple to cook, the ingredients are easy to find, but the finished products are always delicious and beautiful.

Even though she is nearly 70 years old, Sister Tue Van still spends her weekly livestream chatting to answer questions about cooking and vegetarianism on her YouTube channel.

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