{"id":28963,"date":"2024-05-24T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/?p=28963"},"modified":"2024-05-30T04:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T11:11:51","slug":"tracie-may-indulges-in-delicious-as-vietnamese-publicist-and-foodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/2024\/05\/24\/tracie-may-indulges-in-delicious-as-vietnamese-publicist-and-foodie\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracie May Indulges in Delicious as Vietnamese Publicist and Foodie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracie May Indulges in Delicious as Vietnamese Publicist and Foodie<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tracie May made a name for herself in Los Angeles for 25 years as a luxury publicist and event planner leading hundreds of Opening Night parties, events and red carpets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/642c4207c7800c0011c0c040?feed=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then in an \u201cEat, Pray, Love\u201d &#8211; inspired move, she decided to take a leap and move across the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, she relocated to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and became the Senior Editor of Epicure Vietnam Magazine, the most prestigious culinary and hospitality publication in Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29025\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FlavRReport\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29025\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8.png\" alt=\"FlavRReport.com on YouTube\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8.png 728w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8-696x86.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FlavRReport.com on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today we catch up with Tracie to talk about life in Vietnam.\u00a0 The people, the culture, and of course the food.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Publicist Tracie May Indulges in Delicious at her role with <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epicure Vietnam Magazine<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What&#8217;s the most important thing that you want to share during this conversation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don&#8217;t be afraid to take the leap of faith. Honestly, I took a massive leap of faith, uprooting my entire life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had a big life in LA.\u00a0 I was there for 25 years, and to take that leap of faith to relocate to Vietnam.\u00a0 It was never even on my radar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People thought that I was insane when I said I was doing this. It was not supposed to be for the long term. But the whole point is, you never know where opportunity is going to come. You don&#8217;t know what your future looks like, until you write your own story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am proof positive that anything is possible if you just take a risk for yourself and your happiness, because the energy or the universe will provide for you if you&#8217;re truthful, connected and really get specific about what you want.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28970\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28970 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.52.37\u202fPM-1022x1024.png\" alt=\"Tracie May with Chef Eden Daus of Lesung, holding Epicure Vietnam Magazine\" width=\"696\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.52.37\u202fPM-1022x1024.png 1022w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.52.37\u202fPM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.52.37\u202fPM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.52.37\u202fPM-768x769.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.52.37\u202fPM-696x697.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.52.37\u202fPM-1068x1070.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.52.37\u202fPM-419x420.png 419w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.52.37\u202fPM.png 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracie May with Chef Eden Daus of Lesung, holding Epicure Vietnam Magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are now the senior editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicureasia.com\/vietnam\/\">Epicure Vietnam Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 Tell me a bit about the magazine and your role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s a really beautiful, glossy print publication. They also have online and social [media presence].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s available in every VIP lounge, every business lounge at every major hotel, airline and club lounge. It has a lot of subscribers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Focuses on culinary, luxury travel, hospitality, wine, chef profiles. [Food and beverage] business profiles as well as features on certain resort properties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was really lucky to [connect with] the publisher.\u00a0 I sent her a bunch of my writing samples. I joined the magazine about 17 months ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My main focuses are editing content, making sure the English is perfect, and dealing with editorial and the marketing teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But my favorite part is running the news section.\u00a0 [It\u2019s] basically my curation of what&#8217;s hot in [food &amp; beverage] in Saigon and all over the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I get to eat the best food all the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The majority of the restaurants that we cover are very high-end, gorgeous, [food and beverage] in town. So I get to eat a lot of amazing food which is awesome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The food in Vietnam is extraordinary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a USA foodie, what&#8217;s a lesson you&#8217;ve learned about Vietnamese cuisine that you want the world to know about?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biggest lesson that I&#8217;ve learned, and it is evident in my <a href=\"https:\/\/wanderlustings.com\/2024\/03\/14\/my-personal-weight-loss-journey-from-fat-to-fit-in-four-years\/\">extreme weight loss of 75<\/a> pounds in 2 \u00bd\u00a0 years, is it&#8217;s whole real food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are not jacking up their cows and their pigs with hormones. Organic is actually a thing here. The quality of the food, it&#8217;s not processed crap in a box that is run by Monsanto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of the climate here, Dalat, which is the region in Vietnam where most of the produce is grown, some of the most unbelievable tasting produce is grown there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fruit is unlike anything you&#8217;ve ever tasted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A watermelon is the sweetest, juiciest, delicious thing you&#8217;ve ever put in your mouth; and it&#8217;s available from every little fruit stand that is on <\/span>Qu\u1ed1c H\u01b0\u01a1ng<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I walk to my local [stores] because I like to support locals here and have my little bag and pull my produce and all of it is grown on their farm,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s just that&#8217;s how people eat here. There is no Kraft macaroni and cheese. There is no processed, boxed chemicals here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of that, the quality of the flavor profiles is so superior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that is the biggest difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason why there&#8217;s such an obesity problem in the U.S. is the abundance of processed food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Here in Vietnam], even fast food.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got McDonald&#8217;s and Popeye&#8217;s and KFC. But the taste of a Big Mac or a Whopper with cheese is far different than anything you can get in the States because of the quality of the meat that they use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is the biggest difference of why Vietnam is so globally recognized as such a foodie hub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re doing a lot to bring attention to Vietnam as a foodie hub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was the guest judge on <strong>Top Chef Vietnam<\/strong>, and I was the guest judge on the finale of this show called Super Cake, Banh Xeo, which was basically, Build a beautiful cake. And these Vietnamese national TV, reality shows which showcase culinary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that was fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If somebody from the United States comes to Vietnam for a few days, from a food point of view, what must we try?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saigon is incredibly vibrant and there&#8217;s too much to do.\u00a0 For the best Vietnamese food hands down It is in district one, which is basically the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28965\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28965\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.46.46\u202fPM-1024x682.png\" alt=\"M\u1ea1 Qu\u00e1n\u00a0\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.46.46\u202fPM-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.46.46\u202fPM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.46.46\u202fPM-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.46.46\u202fPM-1536x1023.png 1536w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.46.46\u202fPM-2048x1364.png 2048w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.46.46\u202fPM-696x463.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.46.46\u202fPM-1068x711.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.46.46\u202fPM-631x420.png 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M\u1ea1 Qu\u00e1n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maquancusine?mibextid=LQQJ4d\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M\u1ea1 Qu\u00e1n\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s gorgeous. A restaurant with Vietnamese cuisine that focuses on historical dishes from the imperial city of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hu\u1ebf<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the north and in Hanoi to the Mekong Delta and is visually stunning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The flavors are unbelievable. For sure if you want to eat an extraordinary Vietnamese meal, that&#8217;s a place, hands down, highly recommended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28964\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28964\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.45.29\u202fPM-1024x512.png\" alt=\"Lesung\" width=\"696\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.45.29\u202fPM-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.45.29\u202fPM-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.45.29\u202fPM-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.45.29\u202fPM-1536x767.png 1536w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.45.29\u202fPM-2048x1023.png 2048w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.45.29\u202fPM-696x348.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.45.29\u202fPM-1068x534.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.45.29\u202fPM-841x420.png 841w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lesung<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lesungsgn?mibextid=LQQJ4d\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lesung SGN\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the last 3 months I was introduced to Malaysian cuisine.\u00a0 Spicy,\u00a0 sambal based, chili based. The chef \/ owner is a fine dining chef, who&#8217;s a celebrity chef here. He wanted to get back to his roots and he opened this restaurant that&#8217;s very reasonably priced.\u00a0 Fine dining, but in a casual setting, not expensive and truly authentic Malaysian cuisine. \u00a0 All of his grandmother&#8217;s recipes and it&#8217;s home cooking at its best. That is a must go.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28966\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.47\u202fPM-940x1024.png\" alt=\"Noriboi Omakase\" width=\"696\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.47\u202fPM-940x1024.png 940w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.47\u202fPM-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.47\u202fPM-768x836.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.47\u202fPM-696x758.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.47\u202fPM-1068x1163.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.47\u202fPM-386x420.png 386w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.47\u202fPM.png 1328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NoriboiOmakase?mibextid=LQQJ4d\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noriboi Omakase<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you love sushi, Noriboi is an extraordinary omakase restaurant in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Th\u1ea3o \u0110i\u1ec1n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in the town where I live. 12 to 18 tastings of caviar, and the best uni flown in from Japan, and extraordinary toro, and you can&#8217;t imagine how good, it&#8217;s insane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You took a very dramatic pivot a few years ago and it turned out so well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I knew that I had to make a change. I knew that I was unhappy.\u00a0 Even though I had great friends and a great life and did really cool stuff in LA, I felt like I was just trapped in a hamster wheel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was bit by the \u201cEat Pray Love\u201d bug.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decided that, life&#8217;s too short to be unhappy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a big, wide, beautiful world out there. Why not explore it while I have the chance?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I happen to have family who live in Saigon, and we conspired together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I sold my car, put everything in storage, all the paperwork, packed my two dogs and three suitcases and got on a plane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The original plan was to hang out in Southeast Asia for three months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leave my stuff with my family, get a backpack and travel throughout Southeast Asia and go pray with some Buddhist monks.\u00a0 Have my Tomb Raider moment in Angkor Wat in Cambodia and go do a lot of scuba diving.\u00a0 Then three months later, go home [to the United States] and face the music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But COVID happened, my life shifted. So I stayed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I couldn&#8217;t have imagined a more incredible life that I&#8217;ve been able to curate for myself than I have been able to in Saigon.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28967\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28967\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.48.06\u202fPM-780x1024.png\" alt=\"Tracie May at Tet Lunar New Year 2024 party\" width=\"696\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.48.06\u202fPM-780x1024.png 780w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.48.06\u202fPM-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.48.06\u202fPM-768x1008.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.48.06\u202fPM-696x913.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.48.06\u202fPM-1068x1401.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.48.06\u202fPM-320x420.png 320w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.48.06\u202fPM.png 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracie May at Tet Lunar New Year 2024 party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your background is a world class publicist in North America.\u00a0 Because of the pandemic, you went from a publicist to a \u201cstay at home mom\u201d figure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did, but I still had to pay my bills, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I had a free place to stay because my family was paying the rent. When [my family] got stuck in the US during COVID, when Vietnam closed their borders, they got locked out for 10 months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suddenly I&#8217;m a mother to 2 kids in an international school. I&#8217;ve got to take care of their three dogs, my two dogs, their villa, all their stuff, in a country that I didn&#8217;t know and a language that I didn&#8217;t speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was all about pivoting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time I had hot pink hair.\u00a0 All the expat moms, they&#8217;ve got kids and they live in a compound because their husbands run Nike or Adidas or\u2026[some huge company]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s me, this newbie from LA with my fuchsia hair riding my family&#8217;s electric bike with the kids on the back taking them to school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The [expat Moms are] like, who and what is this?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally I became the talk of the town.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I live in a bubble, a little enclave within the city, it&#8217;s expat land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I really think in the beginning I made friends out of total pity.\u00a0 Suddenly they were like, \u201cLet&#8217;s take you to lunch.\u201d\u00a0 So there were several luncheons introducing me to society and I created my clan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The one thing that&#8217;s hard about here is that the expat life is very rotational because a lot of the families are on contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you work at the consulate, you&#8217;ve got a 2-3 year contract.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the contract is done, you&#8217;re back home. I don&#8217;t want to leave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So one of the hardest things about making really close friends here is that they leave. So it&#8217;s a lot of continual rotation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have friends who&#8217;ve been here for 14 years up to 35 years who felt the bug like me and decided no, this is where you want to be right now. This is a good place to be, but yeah, that&#8217;s basically how it happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A minute ago, you used the phrase \u201ctalk of the town.\u201d\u00a0 Let\u2019s dive deeper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re getting huge growth on social media. Food and dining, lifestyle, travel in this genre. Your face is everywhere. Your voice is everywhere. Your name is everywhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What&#8217;s it like living your life, when someone sees your face, name and recognizes you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is bizarre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have no idea how it happened, especially in Vietnam.\u00a0 Local Vietnamese don&#8217;t speak a word of English.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;ve been so many times that I&#8217;m walking my dogs up my street or [I\u2019m] on the back of a &#8220;Grab&#8221; bike, which is our version of Uber and they see me, look at my picture before and say:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cSorry, Madame. Are you Madam Tracy?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And show me a picture of myself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s due to doing TV appearances on Top Chef Vietnam and other major, national primetime TV shows here with millions of Vietnamese watching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s bizarre, especially coming from Hollywood where all my focus has always been the promotion of others and the promotion of brands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suddenly I&#8217;m the [one being] promoted and I just find it really funny. But I&#8217;m grateful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How has publicity changed from LA to Vietnam?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wear a lot of hats here [in Vietnam]. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve become the \u201cgo to\u201d event producer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was a pretty major event producer in the States and produced [around] 250 fashion shows in three continents around the world, a bunch of parties in LA, and red carpets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s tons of talent in Vietnam.\u00a0 So now I\u2019m doing it for major Western companies who want a sprinkle of American or they want a real Western perspective for [their event], I&#8217;m the girl they call.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the events I produced was the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/2023\/10\/15\/sofitel-saigon-plaza-celebrates-25th-anniversary-a-quarter-century-of-joie-de-vivre-in-vietnam\/\">25th anniversary of the Sofitel Saigon Plaza Hotel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was a huge event inviting every government official, major CEO, all of their massive VIPs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28983\" style=\"width: 805px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28983\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/With-Jerome-P.jpeg\" alt=\"Tracie May with Artist Jerome Pichard\" width=\"805\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/With-Jerome-P.jpeg 805w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/With-Jerome-P-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/With-Jerome-P-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/With-Jerome-P-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/With-Jerome-P-696x696.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/With-Jerome-P-420x420.jpeg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracie May with Artist\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SushiandSushi\/\"><strong>Jerome Peschard<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m actually about to produce another event with Sofitel for one of my clients. One of the most talented people I&#8217;ve ever met in my entire life, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SushiandSushi\/\"><strong>Jerome Peschard<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He&#8217;s a French artist with the same story as me, except he got here, fell in love with Saigon and just never left .\u00a0 He met his wife and has a bunch of kids.\u00a0 He has become the most collected artist in Asia globally, for specifically pop art related to historic, historic Vietnamese French and machine and pop art and he does it all.\u00a0 Composite art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I brokered a deal with <strong>Sofitel on June 21 in celebration of the 60 year anniversary of the Sofitel Hotels and Resorts global brand<\/strong>, their Diamond Jubilee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are doing a two month installation, exclusive installation of his works being some are 2.6 meters x 1. 5 meters\u00a0 \u2013 large scale, which are going to be in the lobby as an installation in collaboration with the hotel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s a massive thing, and they called me, so I&#8217;m really honored.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I get to work with him every day and he&#8217;s a total rock star.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28968\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28968\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.37\u202fPM-978x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.37\u202fPM-978x1024.png 978w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.37\u202fPM-286x300.png 286w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.37\u202fPM-768x804.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.37\u202fPM-696x729.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.37\u202fPM-1068x1118.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.37\u202fPM-401x420.png 401w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-12.47.37\u202fPM.png 1144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracie May living her best life in Vietnam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s the theme at this point in your life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The moral of the story is \u201cDon&#8217;t be afraid to take the leap of faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It sounds like you crossed your fingers, closed your eyes and took the jump.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Was there a big concern before taking that jump? How did that big concern work out for you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s very personal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concern wasn&#8217;t about work. I knew that I could work internationally. I knew I could do PR online and still service clients abroad. No matter where you are in the world, the cream rises to the top and you will figure it out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a personal level in the sense that I have always been a serial monogamist. I had a really petrified, paralyzing fear of being alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea of being 50 and alone again, scared me. Having to start over again, scared me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I&#8217;ve learned from that is, I have no problems dating. I have no issue being alone. I actually revel in it because my life is so public now. When I get to be in my underpants, watching Netflix with my two dogs, eating a ham and cheese on freshly baked sourdough baguette with some tomatoes and lettuce; and some truffle aioli from my friend&#8217;s company. That&#8217;s my happy place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That has been the biggest lesson that being alone is okay. Being alone is actually a good thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don&#8217;t need to have a partner or a marriage to justify and qualify who I am. I&#8217;m just fine on my own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the ways to find you and follow you online? How do you want people to find you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tracie May:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s all about the gram, right? My<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/_traciemay_\/\"> Instagram is @_TracieMay_\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or you can find me as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/traciem\/\">Tracie May on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Facebook work page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maywagnerpublicrelations\/\">May Wagner Public Relations<\/a>, but I never check it because I never have time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracie May Indulges in Delicious as Vietnamese Publicist and Foodie Tracie May made a name for herself in Los Angeles for 25 years as a luxury publicist and event planner leading hundreds of Opening Night parties, events and red carpets. Then in an \u201cEat, Pray, Love\u201d &#8211; inspired move, she decided to take a leap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":28972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8236,8241,2015,8235],"tags":[11212,11214,11213],"class_list":{"0":"post-28963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-posts","8":"category-food-drink","9":"category-global-adventure","10":"category-most-popular","11":"category-travel","12":"tag-epicure-vietnam-magazine","13":"tag-top-chef-vietnam","14":"tag-tracie-may"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tracie May Indulges in Delicious as Vietnamese Publicist and Foodie - Daily Ovation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tracie May Indulges in Delicious as Vietnamese Publicist and Foodie\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/2024\/05\/24\/tracie-may-indulges-in-delicious-as-vietnamese-publicist-and-foodie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tracie May Indulges in Delicious as Vietnamese Publicist and Foodie - 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