Christina Nguyen
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Christina Nguyen | |
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| Education | Self-taught |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Spouse | Birk Grudem |
| Culinary career | |
| Cooking style | Venezuelan street food, Southeast Asian street food |
Current restaurant(s)
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Award(s) won
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Christina Nguyen is an American chef and restaurateur. In 2024, she won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Midwest.
Career
Nguyen opened a food truck, Hola Arepa, in 2014.[2] She opened a bricks-and-mortar restaurant also called Hola Arepa, which serves Venezuelan street food, in Minneapolis.[1][4]
Nguyen opened Hai Hai in Minneapolis, which serves Southeast Asian street foods, in the late 2010s.[1][5] The restaurant had previously been a night club.[6][3] National Geographic said it had 'rocketed to prominence as a "new-school” Asian-inspired restaurant. Its menu is almost entirely unlike any of its peers—it’s filled with under-the-radar dishes you can’t order anywhere else, and evolves constantly'.[7]