, is meant to look like a rustic Australian farm. It offers a farm-to-boot service, where you can park your car right at the entrance of the store and have staff load your groceries in the car boot without having to grapple with heavy shopping bags. For those who don’t drive, the cafe and store is a five minutes’ walk from Joo Koon MRT station .
Her business did well enough for her to expand into a three-outlet chain, before she sold it to an Australian company. “They had the resources to expand it, which I didn’t,” she explains. The chain is now inactive as Covid-19 has disrupted its operations. “Melbourne was very affected by the pandemic,” recalls Gek, who was also forced to return to Singapore due to the coronavirus.
As she had built up good relations with Australian farm producers, she decided to open her own Aussie-style cafe and grocer here selling produce that she directly imports, named after Melbourne’s Surrey Hills town that she stayed in. “We don’t have a distributor for most of the things here, so the prices are lower as there’s no middleman,” she says.The air-conditioned shop reminds us of a cross between Scoop Wholefoods and Culina’s upscale grocery store at Como Dempsey.
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