Quyen Ngo

Quyen Ngo, a character from the Slow Burn book, is the manager of Antoine Duval's restaurant - Le Colonial - located in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is first seen in Chapter 12.

Appearances
Quyen has black short slicked hair, black eyes, fair skin and a small beard. He wears a grey suit with a white shirt and a blue tie.

Slow Burn

 * Chapter 12: Too Many Cooks
 * Chapter 13: Have One on Me
 * Chapter 16: Piece de Resistance (Determinant)

Antoine Duval
Antoine Duval is the owner of Le Colonial, a restaurant in Vietnam that Quyen manages. While Antoine believes nothing is wrong with the menu that he set - as its sister restaurant Indochine in Sydney is a two Michelin star restaurant - Quyen tells you, Everett/Yvette Flynt, and Julia/Julian Navarro that their food is not up to par. Le Colonial is not drawing in enough local patrons and tourists, and Zara Vyas tells you that it is struggling. When told this, Antoine is livid and blames the failure of the restaurant on Quyen's management and for hiring amateurs to run his restaurant.

Antoine fails to see the racist and historical insensitivity of the Indochina Wars in the names of his two restaurants, believing that creating the ambience of 1920s nostalgia would appeal to patrons. According to Julia/Julian, Quyen has tried to tell Antoine this, but Antoine repeatedly shuts him down.

Quyen admits that Antoine's initial menu worked for a time but since he doesn't allow them to deviate from it, it no longer works as times have changed. When Quyen asks to change the restaurant's supplier for produce due to their reduction in quality, Antoine angrily refuses, stating that he has a decades-long relationship with that supplier.

Your Character
When you talk to Quyen privately, he tells you that he had hoped the show would be able to help him and the restaurant. However, after arguing with Antoine about every point, Quyen feels the episode was just to stroke Antoine's ego.

Trivia

 * His character model resembles Bao Wu from the Baby Bump series and Ronan from the America's Most Eligible series.
 * When written in Eastern name order, his name would be "Ngo Quyen," a reference to the first monarch of the Ngô Dynasty, Ngô Quyền, in Vietnamese history.