Chef Ho Chee Boon Will Open Nyonya House, a Malaysian Restaurant, in Millbrae on Nov. 18
The former Hakkasan chef and founder of Empress by Boon will serve Malaysian street food and regional specialties at 979 Broadway. He said he has long wanted a more personal restaurant celebrating the food of his native Malaysia.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Palm trees and the Hotel Valencia at Santana Row in San Jose on a sunny day. Photo: Payton Chung / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Chef Ho Chee Boon will open Nyonya House, combining Malaysian street food with other regional specialties, at 979 Broadway in Millbrae on Nov. 18, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Over a three-decade career, Ho ran destination restaurants — some of them Michelin-starred — for the international group Hakkasan, and he opened Empress by Boon in San Francisco's Chinatown in 2021. He said he had long wanted a more personal restaurant celebrating the food of his native Malaysia. "I really always (was) thinking about maybe one day, I want to try my best to do something like this," Ho told the Chronicle. As he gets older, he added, "I think I have to do it now."
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