That's why I decided to give up my career there and start all over again from zero here. We'd been in long distance relationship for almost a year and it's hard. It was the other way around.īut because of love, I came here to be with her. She was telling me this is not like Singapore with skyscrapers.
John, but her family is in Burnaby, and some of my family is in Surrey. We worked together in Singapore and her family asked her to come over to Canada. What were you looking for when you came to the Peace? Did you find it?
#Banania series
We met up for a burger at his place, Audielicious, as part of a series talking to locals about what brought them to the Peace and what keeps them here, and the people and places they've come to love and call home. He's one among hundreds in the city's burgeoning Filipino immigrant community who have been settling here and putting down roots. John, and later to front doors of his first restaurant in 2019. In 2013, the chef's life brought Banania to Fort St. There's lot of things we can do to help other people and serve god." It's not only the priest who can help someone or something. "I told myself if I cannot be a priest, I can help in some other way like I'm doing right now. I'm thankful for that experience because even now I'm still using it in my daily life, what I learned, helping people," Banania says. Teaching was an option, but not for long, and Banania turned to the hospitality business instead, earning his bachelor's degree in hotel and restaurant management, and becoming a highly sought-after chef in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. When his father died, he was the lone boy of seven siblings, and the job caring for his sisters, his mother, and his nieces and nephews was his.
The life of a restaurateur ain't easy and neither is the road to get there.įor Audie Louie Banania, it started in his fourth year of philosophy studies in seminary school in the Philippines.
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