Nguyễn Dzoãn Cẩm Vân

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Nguyen Dzoan Cam Van (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Dzoãn Cẩm Vân; born 1954) is a Vietnamese culinary expert.

Cẩm Vân was born in Hanoi to a Buddhist family. In the 1960s, her family settled in Phu Bon province (now in Gia Lai province). Van's father is a civil servant, while her mother stayed at home. Her mother died of illness.^[1]

In the 1960s and 1970s, she studied in Saigon at a boarding school. She taught Literature at Nguyen Thuong Hien High School, Saigon for 18 years. She changed to cooking and teaching cooking to increase her income.

In 1990, Vân took her youngest son to Australia for treatment of a heart condition. In Australia, she worked as a seamstress for three years.^[2]

When she returned to Vietnam, she was fired by the school and her husband was unemployed and they accrued many debts.^{[citation needed]}

Vân taught some classes, and worked as a seamstress and cook, making sponge cakes. She applied to teach baking at the Tan Binh District Vocational Training Center.^{[citation needed]}

In 1993, Ho Chi Minh City Television hired her as an experienced cooking teacher for the program Khéo tay hay làm.^{[citation needed]}

Phuong Nam Film Studio then hired her to make cooking videos for three regions and Tet dishes. She also played a supporting role as a grandmother telling fairy tales to children in the children's video film Vietnamese Fairy Tales 13 in 2001.^{[citation needed]}

Vân spent two years living and working in Beijing, China and regularly travels to the United States as a student at The Culinary Institute of America in California, where she was invited to give lectures. She learned English to do so.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2011, while promoting Vietnamese cuisine in Malaysia, she introduced Vietnamese betel leaves to tourists through the folk love story Betel and Areca [vi].^{[citation needed]}

During the introduction of Vietnamese cuisine at the Culinary Institute of America in 2000, she used a bottle of fish sauce, a bottle of vinegar, a glass of lemon juice, a few kumquats, onion, garlic, ginger, spices, to make 16 types of dipping sauces.^{[citation needed]}

Vân's son died in 2014 from a stroke.^[3]

She is a Buddhist, but before her eldest son passed away, she was not a vegetarian.

In 2012, she took refuge in Buddhism with the Dharma name Diệu Tịnh. In June 2019, she became a monk and is currently living in Binh Duong province.

In 2024, Nguyễn Dzoãn Cẩm Vân appeared on YouTube with a YouTube channel named after her Dzoãn Cẩm Vân.^[4]