“I was born into a family with proud Malaysian Peranakan lineage.  Peranakan refers to an ethnic group of mixed Chinese and Malay heritage that has particular cultural practices unique to them.  A significant peculiarity of this culture is their passion for food, and the resulting colourful variety of food.  Our daily lives revolved around the kitchen (a routine that we have carried on until today).  Our kitchen was the largest living area in the home, where three generations of family would spend most of the entire day in the kitchen and that’s where we have our daily light hearted banter and arguments.  Everyone in the family was expected to help out in the cooking and being at the end of the chain of command order of hierarchy, I usually ended up with laborious task of peeling the onions and the endless pounding of fresh spices on the pestle and mortar.   My grandma was a perfectionist when it came to cooking, she has passed on to us many invaluable tips and recipes, some of which our guests get to enjoy in our restaurant today”       Brian Teoh(Owner of A’ruma Malaysian)