After over 20 years of working at various zi char stalls, popular Mandarin-speaking Indian cook Devid Retanasamy has finally opened his very own stall.
The 39-year-old Malaysian officially opened The Blacky Seafood on 7 April, serving up classic zi char dishes such as chilli crab, black pepper crab and har cheong gai (prawn paste chicken).
On the name of the stall, Devid explained to 8days that many know him as Xiao Hei, which directly translates to ‘Little Black’.
“So I think The Blacky Seafood is actually very apt, as they’ll think of me when they say my stall’s name. What’s most important to me is that I’m the one cooking here.”