Makan News - Another local food business is shutting its doors. Owner Sandra Chan announced on Restaurant Home’s social media pages that it would be closing on March 31, or earlier, if there were tenants to take over. She posted that she had hoped to carry on her late. Read more at www.tnp.sg
She'd wanted to carry on her late husband's legacy by continuing his food business, albeit in a different form. However, three years after converting his Chinese restaurant, Restaurant Home, into a shop specialising in dim sum-style baos, owner Sandra Chan has decided to call it a day. Her husband, Chinese cuisine chef Tan Yong Hua, had died of heart failure.
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She focuses on bun business to honour late husband’s memory
Madam Sandra Chan and her husband worked on the bun recipe until they perfected it. PHOTO: COURTESY OF SANDRA CHAN
Madam Sandra Chan and late husband, celebrity chef Tan Yong Hua, fell in love with the buns in Malaysia
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Barely five months after introducing handcrafted buns to the menu, celebrity chef Tan Yong Hua died from heart failure in his sleep in September last year.
The chef, 47, who ran Restaurant Home, was best known for his Peking duck and homey dishes such as steamed fish and rice vermicelli with pork knuckles.