From ayam berempah to pan mee and chilli butter chicken, the menu takes familiar flavours in new directions. (Moganraj Villavan @ FMT Lifestyle)KUALA LUMPUR: For years, Ashraf Rahmat and his wife Natasha Micaela Hud lived and worked abroad, moving between countries and absorbing different ways of eating, designing and socialising.
When they decided to open a café with their friend and business partner Hakim Sulaiman, however, they weren’t interested in importing things they had seen overseas.
“We wanted to take what we could from all these learnings from all the other markets, but we wanted to create something that was truly Malaysian and bring it to the level where it was competing at the international stage without losing the cultural identity,” Ashraf, who has a background in financial technology, explained.
