Chef adu amran hassan biography of michael

It's rare to find a restaurant that tells the story of its founder in every piece of furniture, on each page of the menu.

Chef adu amran hassan biography of michael

But Chef Adu Amran Hassan reveals his heart in the paintings on ADU Sugar's walls and bares his soul on the plates that emerge from the kitchen.

As you enter, two striking portraits embellish ADU Sugar's entrance - one of an elderly, sarong-clad man with a philosophical smile on his lips and a cockatoo on his shoulder; another of a younger, regal-looking woman with a rooster admiring her. 

The man is Adu's father, whom he painted last year; the woman is his mother, a memory of her from decades ago; the birds represent Adu's childhood pets.

Other paintings of Adu's seven siblings also feature vividly, each lovingly illustrated by Adu himself in surrealistic style. 

ADU Sugar may seem eclectically, even eccentrically, decorated. But every detail shines a light on different times in Adu's life, from a lion-bodied lamp he bought in London 20 y