Opening a business when you’re Young. a Woman. and Asian.

Something I get asked a LOT is “Did you find it hard opening a business because you’re so young?”

My response, “Mate. I got the Big 3 against me. I’m young. Female AND I’m Asian.”

Four years on: was Moustache a good idea?

We just turned 4 years old. So it’s been 4 years since the 21 year old version of me decided Moustache Milk & Cookie Bar was a good idea. Now I’m 25 years old & about to relaunch Moustache Mk.II.

Starting from scratch again. The second time is always harder (according to some girl who makes cookies)

Moustache V.I closed in January. And now we are on Moustache V.II. The second time round is always harder to start up because you feel like you’ve…

Leaving home for Wellington. Musings on the good & the bad.

I admit, Wellington & I didn’t get off to a very good start. Somebody slashed our Moustache Bus tyres the first week we arrived, I got screamed at on the street “FUCK YOU ASIAN CUNT” (yes, this was the exact wording) & I got my…

So, what’s Plan B?

People over the past 4 years always ask me at each stage of the business, “So what if Moustache doesn’t work, then what’s Plan B?” “What if the crowdfund doesn’t work, what then?” “So what if the Cookie Bus doesn’t work? What if K Road doesn’t work? Do you have a Plan B?”

Moustache II: Reincarnating the store we shut down

My brother passed on a message to me from John, a good man but one with whom I have a tense relationship with (think Twilight, I am Team Werewolf & he is Team Vampire. We have respect for one another but ultimately have a wall between us)…

From Auckland City. To Auckland Uni. And all the crippling anxiety in between.

A lot has happened in the past six months. I wanted to tell you guys everything. From the outside in, there’s a lot of good things happening to Moustache that you guys want to know about.

giving when you have little to give.

When I started Moustache, I really wanted the business to be a vehicle to somehow give back to the community. But being such a small start-up founded on a 20-year-old kids saving’s, working 3–4 jobs to get this dream off the ground, we have always bootstrapped &…

the crazy story behind why we can’t open long tomorrow.

It’s 3am. My brain is absolute mince right now so I have no idea what will actually become of this blog. We closed up our all-you-can-eat-dinner & dessert buffet at 10pm. It was put on to be a fun shindig to say goodbye to Auckland…

going back to my roots…Moustache in West Side.

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