Grandma’s secret recipe inspires career change

Leong follows his grandmother’s recipe to maintain the quality of the satay served at his shop (right) in Taman Paya Rumput Utama in Cheng, Melaka.

MELAKA: An electrical engineer gave up his career in order to preserve his family’s 40-year-old secret satay recipe.

The satay, traditionally prepared on a makeshift charcoal grill and served with a succulent peanut sauce, was first introduced in Melaka on a rickety wooden pushcart in the 1980s by an enterprising Peranakan Chinese woman.