Her boyfriend also left his Ritz-Carlton Millenia hotel chef job to run their home-based biz full-time.
But this isn’t the end of Amanda’s culinary journey. The SMU law graduate, who recently completed her traineeship at a law firm, has teamed up with ex-hotel chef boyfriend Alex Ng, 25, to start a home-based Italian sandwich biz. They named it PÁAN – “‘means bread in Italian and we use two ‘A’s because of our names,” she explains. Set to launch on 15 September, PÁAN’s menu will offer four gourmet sandwiches crafted with house-baked Italian bread, and a house-made tomato soup.
A well-cooked dish can spark conversations, create memories and spread joy in ways that legal documents might not. I would love to make a career out of making people happy.The bubbly Gen Z-er says that even though her parents are “slightly worried” about the transition – they fully support her decision. “After, they realised, ‘Amanda has a passion for food’, and they are supporting me wholeheartedly.