Mandy talks about learning to cook and how she came to starting Sambal Shiok, a Malaysian street food business.

Filmed by Caroline Tea - www.carolineteo.com
Edited by Angela Nightengale 
Produced by Anna Sulan Masing - www.annamasing.com

As part of research for this project I have been speaking with people in London about food and home. In the series ‘Home, Food & Business’ I have been focusing on those who have developed a career around food that reminds them of home and who predominantly have ‘home’ in multiple places.

I meet up with Guan on a Tuesday lunchtime, I had just got back from a week in France and although I had a lot of work to do that day I was still in holiday mood, so it wasn't hard for Guan to...

We were very lucky to have had the very wonderful photographer Ming Tang-Evans take photos of our event at Barge Bar, Maltby Street Market on Wed 5 August. Here are his photos of performers Vera Chok, Samantha Mann & Bonnie Freechyld.

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As part of research for this project I have been speaking with people in London about food and home. In the series ‘Home, Food & Business’ I have been focusing on those who have developed a career around food that reminds them of home and who predominantly have ‘home’ in multiple places.

As part of our conversation at Roti King with Mandy we naturally turned to swapping stories, giving tips of how to survive in London… such as frying blachan after sunset! Safiah told us that...

Bonnie Freechyld is a singer, songwriter of worldly origins - created in Australia, with British and Australian parents, her childhood was spent largely in the South-East Asian jungles of Borneo. 

Ever evolving as a musical artist and performer, she has successfully collaborated with many respected artists in the UK, Australia and South East Asia. Her musical endeavours have taken her worldwide, performing not only in London where she currently calls home, but also in Ne...

Come see us at the goregous new Barge Bar, at Maltby Street Market on Ropewalk on Wednesday 5 August! 

We are presenting our play Don't sing in the kitchen, or you'll marry an old man, or rather the begining of our play, for the first time to an audience. Plus we've invited a couple hugely talented people to join in on the fun and perform alongside us. 

This will be the first in a series of curated performances around the topic of 'Food'. Food is nostalgic, food is home...

Here is Vera on a Sunday morning - "This is the way I sound" - the lovely tones of her voice capture us all, so take ten minuets to listen, it will change your day. 

Vera Chok is an actor, writer and performance maker. She makes work which draws on theatrical practices and her background in anthropology. Spaces are created and collage employed to test connection and miscommunication and the duration of each.

Solo performances include work for Tempting Failure Festival, Live A...

As part of research for this project I have been speaking with people in London about food and home. In the series ‘Home, Food & Business’ I have been focusing on those who have developed a career around food that reminds them of home and who predominantly have ‘home’ in multiple places.

Safiah and I are bad Malaysians. We hadn’t been to Roti King in Euston till Monday 6 July. Luckily Mandy, of Sambal Shiok, saved the day and showed us the road home. Roti canai and kopi. Real k...

SAMANTHA MANN

WINNER: MERVYN STUTTER SPIRIT OF THE FRINGE AWARD 2014

FINALIST: OLD COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR 2015

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Samantha Mann is a minutely observed comic creation for those who love cringe humour.

— Roger Cox, The Scotsman 

What does food mean to you?

Oh, goodness! I don’t really know what to say. I think food is terribly important and I know that there are a lot of people in the world who don’t have enough food but I can’t pretend that I spend an awful lot of time thinking about...

 Tube Strike. 

The evening before I am scheduled to volunteer at Sambal Shiok’s stall at Street Food Union on Rupert St, Mandy the Ladyboss and chef of Sambal Shiok texted me to say it is okay for me to cancel if it is too difficul to travel to Soho during peak hours. I told Mandy that I will work out a way to be at her stall the next morning as it is very rare that I have a free day on Thursdays.  

Rather than waking up super early to fight for a space on the bus a...