Our Blind Kitchen is CNA Insider’s three-part digital series documenting the ups and downs of an F&B start-up in which half the founding team is made up of the visually-impaired.
SINGAPORE: Born with congenital cataracts, Ernawati Fauzana Zakaria was diagnosed with glaucoma at the age of 10. She is unable to see objects in focus.
“She thought that no employer would want to hire a visually impaired chef,” he said. “So why don’t we set up a food kiosk and we test this hypothesis?” There were eight weeks to go until the opening of Cafe Kunyah, a kiosk selling sandwiches and rice bowls at the Singapore Management University, when CNA Insider began documenting the team’s journey as they progressed towards their goal.The ups and downs, not to mention a healthy dose of drama, are chronicled in Our Blind Kitchen, a reality-style three-part series. Here are three reasons why it is not to be missed.
CNA producer Jinee Chen was struck by the team members’ authenticity. “I thought I’d have to tiptoe around their disabilities, but it wasn’t like that,” she said. “They’d crack jokes about themselves not being able to see.”
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