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Entertaining

December 2017/ January 2018

Issue 109, volume 11

p.208 - 209

01 of 03Spicy Babi Genyo (pork cheek)
02 of 03Brass cutlery from Canaan, Akili’s shop
03 of 03Ronald Akili, CEO of Potato Head

The serial entrepreneur behind Asian lifestyle hospitality brand Potato Head remembers returning empty handed from hunting wild boar in the jungle, his grandmother cooking huge family dinners of spicy Manado food and the benefits of a bowl of bat soup.