Celebrity chef Luke Nguyen is to open a venue in Brisbane. Fat Noodle is slated to open its doors in December in the recently revamped Treasury Casino in Queen Street.

The 100-seater restaurant will have a street frontage entrance separate from the casino and serve pan-Asian 'hawker style' food including Nguyen’s own Vietnamese as well as Chinese, Thai, and Malaysian.

Fat Noodle will definitely get me waltzing across the casino floor again. There are a few dishes I spied on the menu which I do want to go back and try, particularly the stuffed chicken wings, slow cooked beef ribs in coconut juice and char kway teow. And of course, I will be back for Luke’s delicious pho.

At Fat Noodle Bar you'll discover an atmosphere that always surprises. Your bartender will match wine, beer and cocktails to the exotic South East Asian creations by Chef Luke Nguyen. Cocktails are mixed with seasonal ingredients and made with a unique Asian twist. Fat Noodle Bar will thoughtfully put together the evening just for you. Luke Nguyen's Fat Noodle Restaurant - Treasury Casino, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 57 likes 754 were here. Inspired by Asia’s vibrant street food scene, Fat Noodle is the creation of chef and culinary adventurer Luke Nguyen where traditional family recipes are reinterpreted through fresh Australian produce. Serving up-market dishes day and night including the legendary 20-hour Fat Pho Noodles, a fiery laksa and Vietnamese chicken salad. At the age of 23, Luke fulfilled his dream by opening his very own restaurant – Red Lantern, with his sister Pauline Nguyen and Mark Jensen. In 2012, the team opened their second restaurant, Red Lantern on Riley & Red Lily Cocktail Bar.

Nguyen, who also co-owns Red Lantern in Sydney’s Surry Hills as well as Fat Noodle in the Star Casino in Darling Harbour said that while the concept was the same, the Brisbane venue would have a slightly different menu.

'There will be rice and noodles but also some of my favourite dishes from my travels through Asia; pho of course, cooked in 400 litre kettles with oxtail and wagyu, as well as abalone congee, soft-shell crab and rice paper rolls. Then there will be wok fried dishes like cubed Angus beef with black pepper and garlic.'

Prices would range from $12-17, he said. 'The idea is simple street food based on premium produce.'

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According to Nguyen, Fat Noodle Sydney turns over around 1800 people a day and he expects the Brisbane to be even busier.

'I’ve been to Brisbane many times and I’ve watched the food scene grow and grow. There’s a real hunger for Asian flavours here so I thought it was a perfect time for an Asian noodle bar.'

A kitchen staff of forty will man the burners 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Rachel Luchetti from Sydney design firm Luchetti Krelle, also responsible for interiors at Sake Brisbane and the celebrated Momofuku Seiobo at the Star Casino said Fat Noodle Brisbane would be 'very different' from its Sydney sibling.

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'There have been some challenges, both with the building and creating something that’s so high turnover but is still a bit special, but I can say that it’s going to be big on wow factor.'

The Treasury’s Fat Noodle, along with the recently open bar Kitty and casual eatery The Kitchen is part of owner Echo Entertainment ongoing refurbishment of its Queensland properties, with an estimated $600 million to be invested in the Treasury, Jupiter’s Gold Coast and Jupiter’s in Townsville over the next five years.

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Luke Nguyen (born 8 September 1978) is a Vietnamese–Australian chef and restaurateur, best known as the host of the television series, Luke Nguyen's Vietnam and Luke Nguyen's France.^[1] The former is a food documentary in which he travels through Vietnam with his sous-chef son Bryan Nguyen, cooking in the ad hoc manner of the street vendors in the country, usually preparing the dish on the footpaths,^[2] and the latter is an exploration of the French influence on Vietnamese cuisine.^[3] He is a judge on the television series MasterChef Vietnam.

Following his first two series, the 10 episode Luke Nguyen's United Kingdom,^[4] first aired on 14 May 2015 with the London episode in which he toured the city's food markets with his brother, Lewis. In his most recent series, the 8 episode Luke Nguyen's Street Food Asia,^[5] first aired on 1 September 2016 he explores street food in Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta.

He is the owner of Red Lantern restaurant in Surry Hills, Sydney, and is the author of a number of cookbooks. He is also the man behind the restaurant Fat Noodle situated in the Star Casino Sydney New South Wales. In 2009, Luke Nguyen and his then-partner, Suzanna Boyd founded the Little Lantern Foundation in Hoi An, which gives disadvantaged youths an opportunity to undertake a hospitality training program in Little Lantern’s operating hotel – restaurant and bar.

Nguyen has appeared multiple times on the competitive cooking show MasterChef Australia as a guest chef, including season 2 episode 8, and season 8 episode 31.^[6]

Nguyen appeared on the season 7, episode 3 of the SBS genealogy series, Who Do You Think You Are? in which he learned of his previously unknown Hakka Chinese ancestry through his maternal grandfather, an immigrant from Guangdong. Though his mother had known about this for decades, for unspecified reasons she had hidden this information from Nguyen. The program also revealed information about the involvement of Nguyen's ancestors during the Indochina and Vietnam Wars.^[7]

YouTube Encyclopedic

• Explainer Spotlight - Thomas Nguyen Explainer TV
• TEDxSMU Salon 2012 - Tammy Nguyen Lee

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