The Hindu Business Line : Malaysia’s Awana launches Hyderabad centre

Hyderabad, July 28 Malaysian restaurant chain Awana has set up its first multi-cuisine centre in India at Hyderabad and plans to locate about eight more of them within three years including two in Mumbai and Delhi shortly.

Awana means ‘in the clouds,’ is a new modern Malaysian restaurant chain with facilities in London and Dubai and is setting up more centres in Beijing and Tokyo.

The Managing Director of Awana, Mr. Eddie Lim, said: “Awana’s journey to promote authentic Malaysian cuisine in India starts from the City of Pearls, Hyderabad.

Awana at Hyderabad follows the atmosphere Awana Beijing and Awana London have created, wherein guests get treated to new levels of hospitality and authentic cuisine.” Addressing a press conference here, Mr Lim said Awana is part of the 70-plus restaurant chain which continues to expand globally providing authentic cuisine.

As a part of its expansion, Mr Lim said it planned to establish eight more such restaurants in India by 2010. However, work on the Delhi and Mumbai restaurants is likely to begin shortly.

“Typically, Awana restaurants are owned and managed by the company. However, if need be, we may even consider the possibility of offering some of them through the franchisee route,” Mr Lim said.

Malaysian food is rooted in its multi-ethnic population of Malay, Indian, Eurasia, Chinese, Nynya and the indigenous people of Borneo.