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July 12, 2009
Domestic goddess
MRS Anastasia Liew, 62, fumbles to hide her hands from the camera.
Wearing a single diamond ring and no nail polish, the founder and managing director of Bengawan Solo cake shop says to the photographer: 'Can you not photograph my hands? They don't look good. These hands have been making cakes for more than 30 years.'
Her remark is more self-conscious than vain. But really she should be prouder of her hands - they have helped build her confectionery business from the kitchen of an HDB flat into an empire with a turnover of $43 million last year.
Read the full report in Monday's edition of The Straits Times, Life!.
July 12, 2009
Domestic goddess
MRS Anastasia Liew, 62, fumbles to hide her hands from the camera.
Wearing a single diamond ring and no nail polish, the founder and managing director of Bengawan Solo cake shop says to the photographer: 'Can you not photograph my hands? They don't look good. These hands have been making cakes for more than 30 years.'
Her remark is more self-conscious than vain. But really she should be prouder of her hands - they have helped build her confectionery business from the kitchen of an HDB flat into an empire with a turnover of $43 million last year.
Read the full report in Monday's edition of The Straits Times, Life!.
