“From my experience, the majority of young bartenders have dreams to eventually open their own bar,” Shirmy Chan muses as her business partner Wong Vi Yon nods along. We’re sitting at a long wooden table in Bar Terumi, accessible via a narrow flight of stairs in a shophouse in Taman Paramount. The airy space is filled with natural light streaming through a window framed with various plants.
Chan continues, “There is a long journey between being a junior bartender and owning a bar. Even back then, I
