Chefs carrying recipes and a story worth telling from different parts of the world.
🇵🇸 PalestinianA husband-and-wife team from Gaza, sharing the flavours of home through every plate.
🇵🇸 PalestinianStarted cooking at 18 to feed her family. Fled Gaza with her husband and three children in 2018.
🇦🇫 AfghanBecame her family's sole breadwinner overnight. Dreams of opening her own restaurant.
🇵🇰 PakistaniA former kindergarten teacher from Lahore. Her paani poori is a labour of love.
🇵🇸 PalestinianLeft Gaza to protect his then-newborn son. His maqlooba is a must-try.
🇲🇲 BurmeseGrew up dreaming of being a doctor, a fashion designer, a baker. The kitchen lit her up.
Learned the basics from his mother, BBQ from his elder brother. Cooks across five cuisines.
🇮🇷 IranianTradition meets curiosity. Iranian stews meet modern flavours. Cooking as meditation.
Some of our chefs have since resettled to new countries — but their cooking, and their connection to the PichaEats family, continues. If you're in any of these cities, you can reach out to them directly.
Shakila worked with PichaEats before her family's resettlement to Australia. She continues to cook the recipes that her guests in Malaysia loved — now serving the Melbourne community from her own kitchen.
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After years cooking with PichaEats in KL, Salam resettled to Barrie with his family. His Pakistani classics - Biryani, chana chaat, naan, kheer are now finding a new audience in Ontario.
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A Palestinian refugee born in Damascus, Nisreen carries the legacy of her great-grandparents who left their home in the Nakba of 1948. Her signature Musakhan Roasted Chicken and her wider Levantine repertoire now find a new audience in the Greater Toronto Area.
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Nesreen left Malaysia for the Netherlands, and her kitchen in Almelo now serves families across Overijssel. Her recipes — passed down through generations — remain at the centre of her cooking, wherever she finds herself.
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Aeada cooks the food she grew up with — and the food her PichaEats guests came to know her for. Now based in Emmen, she continues to share her recipes and stories with a new community in the north of the Netherlands.
💬 Contact AeadaIf you've ordered from one of our chefs in Malaysia and have since moved abroad — or if you're somewhere with a Picha chef nearby — message us. We'll do our best to put you in touch.
💬 WhatsApp usTwo chefs we lost along the way — but whose recipes, hospitality, and spirit continue to live through PichaEats. Their stories are part of ours.
In loving memoryA professional chef with 14 years of culinary experience, Zaza fled Syria with his wife Rania and son Taim. Two weeks before he passed, on his hospital bed, he spoke about wanting to cook Chicken Mandi for people in need around the masjid during Ramadan. The Zaza Movement was born from that wish and continues today.
In loving memoryOsama discovered cooking as a boy, feeding his younger brothers when his mother was busy. His chef father taught him the rest. He once said: "I just feel better in the kitchen." Even after fleeing Syria's civil war, the kitchen remained where he was most himself - building a life and a livelihood for his family in Malaysia, one meal at a time.
Every order goes directly to a chef and their family. Whether you're hosting a corporate townhall or a family dinner — we have something for you.