GEORGE TOWN, March 25 -- A bowl of soup is the ultimate comfort food and for Muslim-convert Gimi Lim Burge, that is the reason he created halal versions of the herbal soups he grew up drinking as a child.

The 50-year-old and his wife Lina Hassan, 43, started a small home-cooked food delivery business during the pandemic in 2020 but soon - craving the flavours from his childhood - he thought about making Chinese herbal soup using halal ingredients.

"A friend recommended a Chinese herbal soup master to us and after meeting with him, he agreed to train my wife on how to make herbal soups," he said.

After learning the recipes and how to make herbal soups using halal ingredients, they experimented and came up with their own version of herba...