Ordering in: The couple who couldn't cook but started a successful food business

The ayam rempah with blue butterfly pea rice was one of the earliest dishes on the brand’s menu and has remained a favourite ever since. — Photos: EAT KITCHEN

At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, affable married couple Chuah Seet Sheng and Liew Huey Ying were running a fashion retail outlet in a shopping mall. When the lockdown was first imposed and mall traffic dropped to zero, Chuah and Liew knew they needed to do something to sustain themselves.

“We were previously in the fashion retail line, selling women’s clothing and accessories. But during the movement control order at the start of the pandemic, nobody wanted new clothes.