Guest Chef Kha Nguyen
Kha was in the Master Chef Competition in 2015.
Born and bred in Melbourne, Kha kept Vietnamese heritage and tradition. His family were refugees of the Vietnam War, fleeing to Australia to make a better life in early 1980s.
He is working to start his version of humble Banh Mi – Vietnamese pork roll food truck or shop. He knows he loves creations of good foods. He has a great master chef story and teaches our Vietnamese and Thai Cookings.
Other chefs
Founder and Chef Ha Nguyen
Ha Nguyen is a passionate and talented chef, restaurateur and food consultant with an amazing ability to engage and motivate audience. Ha brings a wealth of international experience, with many years of French and Asian cooking. Chef Hà began his career in Hanoi local restaurants and the Hilton Opera Hotel before travel, study and work in Wellington, New Zealand – New...
Chef Dylan Vickers
Dylan’s love affair with cooking began as a kid in his grandmother’s kitchen. Slurping noodles and day dreaming about sushi and dumplings, his itching for good food thrust him into the restaurant industry straight out of highschool. He picked up a few tricks along the way working under the umbrella of David Chang at Momofuku Toronto, worked as Sous at acclaimed Skippa restaurant...
Chef E J Butler
Chef EJ started with Otao kitchen in Aug 2018. More info to come
Chef Tamaki Nakatani
Chef Tamaki was born in Osaka in Japan. She has always had a passion for food. After a Bachelors degree in Agriculture and a few years of working at a Japanese company, she decided to become a chef in Australia. So in 2009, she came to Melbourne for studying commercial cookery at William Angliss Institute of TAFE and got a chef qualification. Since then she has worked for a number of...