19 Aug 2007, ST
By Wee Jing Ting
ON WEEKENDS, queues snake outside a cafe in Purvis Street.
Diners, most of them young working adults, wait their turn to get inside Miss Clarity Cafe, a brightly painted eatery that serves affordable French food.
Business is so good that the mother-son duo who run the place is growing their business. Just last month, they opened a new cafe along Upper Thomson Road and soon, the first franchised outlet will open at 297 Tanjong Katong Road.
Madam Nora Pang, 51, started the Purvis Street cafe two years ago and named it after her niece.
'It was a spontaneous thing,' she says. 'I want to reach out to more people, and I do this primarily through food.'
She says she never imagined having more than one outlet but the crowds at the eatery made her reconsider. She was also approached about franchising her cafe.
The keen baker worked in the logistics and shipping industry for 16 years before retiring in 2003. She rented a small stall selling homemade sandwiches and pastries at the Singapore Management University (SMU) campus in Bukit Timah, where she enjoyed interacting with the students.
When the university moved to its permanent campus at Bras Basah, she decided to open a cafe.
Her son Jonathan Koh, 25, sees to the food. The graduate of the Singapore Hotel And Tourism Education Centre, or Shatec, has worked at the Raffles Grill, a fine dining restaurant in Raffles Hotel, and has also apprenticed in Les Jardin de Sens, a three-star Michelin restaurant in Montpellier in the south of France.
His menu reflects his training in French cuisine.
On it are dishes such as sauteed salmon with creamy white bean cassoulet topped with caramelised onions ($13.80) and beef stew vol-au-vent ($10.80).
Undergraduate Cheryl Chia, 23, a regular customer, says: 'The food is inexpensive and tasty and it's a great place to hang out with friends. I've attended quite a number of birthday celebrations there.'
MISS CLARITY CAFE
5 Purvis Street, 01-04, Tel: 6339-4803
Open: 11am to 11pm, closed Sundays
205 Upper Thomson Road, Tel: 6256-2008
Open: 11am to 11pm, closed Mondays
By Wee Jing Ting
ON WEEKENDS, queues snake outside a cafe in Purvis Street.
Diners, most of them young working adults, wait their turn to get inside Miss Clarity Cafe, a brightly painted eatery that serves affordable French food.
Business is so good that the mother-son duo who run the place is growing their business. Just last month, they opened a new cafe along Upper Thomson Road and soon, the first franchised outlet will open at 297 Tanjong Katong Road.
Madam Nora Pang, 51, started the Purvis Street cafe two years ago and named it after her niece.
'It was a spontaneous thing,' she says. 'I want to reach out to more people, and I do this primarily through food.'
She says she never imagined having more than one outlet but the crowds at the eatery made her reconsider. She was also approached about franchising her cafe.
The keen baker worked in the logistics and shipping industry for 16 years before retiring in 2003. She rented a small stall selling homemade sandwiches and pastries at the Singapore Management University (SMU) campus in Bukit Timah, where she enjoyed interacting with the students.
When the university moved to its permanent campus at Bras Basah, she decided to open a cafe.
Her son Jonathan Koh, 25, sees to the food. The graduate of the Singapore Hotel And Tourism Education Centre, or Shatec, has worked at the Raffles Grill, a fine dining restaurant in Raffles Hotel, and has also apprenticed in Les Jardin de Sens, a three-star Michelin restaurant in Montpellier in the south of France.
His menu reflects his training in French cuisine.
On it are dishes such as sauteed salmon with creamy white bean cassoulet topped with caramelised onions ($13.80) and beef stew vol-au-vent ($10.80).
Undergraduate Cheryl Chia, 23, a regular customer, says: 'The food is inexpensive and tasty and it's a great place to hang out with friends. I've attended quite a number of birthday celebrations there.'
MISS CLARITY CAFE
5 Purvis Street, 01-04, Tel: 6339-4803
Open: 11am to 11pm, closed Sundays
205 Upper Thomson Road, Tel: 6256-2008
Open: 11am to 11pm, closed Mondays
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