“I’m a slow learner, so far I only know like four words in Bahasa. Anyway… as of now, we have nine outlets around the country.
“I visited Thailand during my time in Southeast Asia and I can safely say there is nothing like authentic Thai boat noodle served from the fishermen’s sampans. We needed Malaysians to know what they were missing out on, and therefore the idea of Boat Noodle restaurants was formed. We try our best to exact the quality of the original Thai noodles but it’s difficult when you need to quality control nine restaurants. This wasn’t always me, however. My father, being the typical Indian, wanted me to become an engineer or lawyer. So l studied law and l was a practicing lawyer in NZ for a few years.
“Then I broke the news to him that I was interested in public relations and marketing. My dad’s response was, in a thick Indian accent, “Marketing? Isn’t that a fancy word for advertising with billboards and all that nonsense?”
I said “Yes, but dad l want to become an entrepreneur”. My father thought l wanted to be the manual labourer putting up the billboards!”
– Story contributed by Giovanni Anil Gerard!
Photostory by Mushamir Mustafa
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(This post was first published on September 19th 2015)
