When her cafe serving local food was struggling to attract customers, Madam Jenny Peck turned her business around by learning Western-style food such as paprika chicken.
The 66-year-old, who opened her now-defunct Pecky's Cafe at Biopolis in February 2010, ran it profitably for three years before closing it in 2013 as she found it too physically tiring to continue.
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on November 25, 2018, with the headline An avid home cook's recipe for paprika chicken with spiced basmati rice. Subscribe