Inside, the light illuminates neat rows of flaky golden-brown croissants filled with chicken rendang.Using a small serrated knife, he carefully slices the pastries, and the fragrance of spices wafts out.One of Fuad Fahmi's signature pastries, the rendang croissant. Flitting around the kitchen, the lean and muscular 34-year-old is a picture of health.It started with a pain in his lower back pain followed by nausea and significant weight loss.
“I've always been a person who advocates for a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Personally, I cultivated good eating habits, was an avid gym-goer and played sports all the time, so it was very difficult to accept it,” he said. “They really put up a very united front against cancer and gave me wonderful support, not just encouraging me but also helping to break down problems into something that was more manageable and find solutions to overcome them,” he said.
“I had no words, I just looked at my dad and I just hugged him. I said: ‘This is what we have been fighting for. Let's start a new life.' ... I was so overjoyed.” “There was this uncle who was making buns over there. I asked him if he could teach me how to do it, and he gave me a very brief recipe on how to make them and it kind of intrigued me,” he said.