New restaurant brings Malaysian flavours and business confidence to Shannon

“For sale” signs are as common a sight on shop windows as ones saying “open”, but they haven’t deterred a Palmerston North couple from establishing a bustling venture in a struggling town.

Pauline Cher said people were surprised when she and Matthew Chung told them they chose Shannon as the location for their Malaysian restaurant Nanyang Flavours.

“Everyone said to me ‘why there?’ Everybody. I had no-one say to me ‘oh that’s a good place’, no, not even one.”

Cher loved cooking and had always dreamed of opening up her own restaurant, but it would have been difficult to achieve that dream in Palmerston North.

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