A stint in Hong Kong hotel quarantine led Simran Savlani to write her cookbook, A Spark of Madness - also the name of the handmade sauce business she went on to open. Photo: Jonathan Wong
A stint in Hong Kong hotel quarantine led Simran Savlani to write her cookbook, A Spark of Madness - also the name of the handmade sauce business she went on to open. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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Quarantine spawned a cookbook, washouts bred dining pop-ups, and she launched a handmade sauce business in Hong Kong mid-pandemic – Simran Savlani has been busy

  • In 2020, Simran Savlani was ready to open her own restaurant. Then Covid-19 struck, she found herself stuck in India for six months and thought of a cookbook
  • Hong Kong hotel quarantine gave her a chance to start writing it, before she launched a business selling handmade sauces with the pandemic still raging

Kylie Knott
Kylie Knott

Updated: 11:15am, 23 Jun, 2022

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A stint in Hong Kong hotel quarantine led Simran Savlani to write her cookbook, A Spark of Madness - also the name of the handmade sauce business she went on to open. Photo: Jonathan Wong
A stint in Hong Kong hotel quarantine led Simran Savlani to write her cookbook, A Spark of Madness - also the name of the handmade sauce business she went on to open. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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