Stay Tuned: Haamonii (harmony) shochu coming to Ludacris and Yeo’s Straits Atlanta
WRITTEN BY: Founder WRITTEN ON: September 16. 2009
We’re only weeks away from officially being available in Atlanta through our partners Two Friends Imports and we’re proud to announce that we’ll be available at Straits Atlanta!
From 2009 Food and Wine Magazine article:
In the last three year, Christopher Bridges, a.k.a. Ludacris, has had several major accomplishments. He won two Grammys for his album Release Therapy (not so surprising). He earned rave reviews for his role in the movie Crash, which snagged an Oscar for best pictures (pretty surprising). And he opened a Singaporean restaurant, Straits Atlanta, in his hometown (very, very surprising)…
Chris Yeo himself came to the restaurant business circuitously. He grew up in Singapore, worked as a bartender there and made his way up to San Francisco in 1980 as a hairstylist. He missed Singaporean food so much he decided to open a restaurant. “It makes more sense than you think. When you’re a hairdresser, you entertain a lot,” says Yeo, who continued to cut hair until the lines outside Straits forced him to concentrate on his cooking. Today he has four Straits locations and a Chinese restaurant, SINO; he plans to open a new Straits in Houston ans a SINO in Santa Monica, California. “I have five restaurants now,” he says. “But I haven’t gotten as many reviews in my entire life as when I teamed up with Ludacris.”
