You can always go home again The pastry art of Chef Jeffrey Tan WRITTEN BY: CARY WONG P R O T O G R A P H S P R O V I D E D B Y : C H E F J E F F R E Y TA N
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s a boy born and raised on the beautiful Malaysian island of Penang, Chef Jeffrey Tan had no idea he would work in the culinar y field. As a child, he had zero ideas about food and thought it was only a way to sustain life and keep people healthy. Coming from a business family where his father and siblings are successful entrepreneurs, one would imagine he would have followed a similar path. Instead, his mother, a tailor, seemed to have the biggest impact on his career. “She was always sewing… she had a great sense of fashion and a passion to create new things,” he says, “I got inspired by my mother and was always amazed by how she could turn a piece of fabric into complete and amazing clothes.”
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And despite losing her early in life, Chef Tan inherited her creativit y.
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He also enjoyed baking because he loved sharing goodies with friends and family. It makes him glad to see the joy on other people’s faces doing what he loves.
