When Mr Steven Low was retrenched two years ago from his sous chef job at Meritus Mandarin hotel, he got calls from hotels in Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines with job offers the next day.
But the man credited for helping to create the famous Chatterbox chicken rice had already made up his mind to be his own boss.
He took the pink slip, the $20,000 payout for his 31 years of service and his winning recipe to start a stall selling - what else - chicken rice.
Read Tan Dawn Wei's full story in tomorrow's edition of The Sunday Times.
