South China Morning Post

SCMP - Health-minded entrepreneurs fill gap in market for vegan, raw food snacks

After Calista Goh had surgery to remove a 6.5cm-long benign tumour on her intestinal wall in 2008, she found that she could hardly stomach any food.

A law school freshman at the University of Bristol at the time, she stumbled onto London's first raw vegan restaurant, Saf. Her meal there was the first after surgery that didn't bring pain, bloating or diarrhoea.

"The food was so good, I didn't think about meat," says Goh, 29, a Singapore native who admits to eating everything and anything in the past.