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How Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen and Singapore’s national service helped Barry Quek find his calling

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How would you describe your relationship with food growing up? “As a child I ate a lot, so I was really fat. When I was 14 years old, my first job was at McDonald’s. I was behind the counter taking customers’ orders. After working and eating there every day after school for a year, I weighed 100kg.“Home cooking didn’t interest me because I had to help my mom with shopping when she went to the wet market, which is, well, wet and dirty, and I didn’t understand what the aunties [vendors] were…

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