Banana Leaf Lunch For Puan Sri Mimi And Hubby Tan Sri Dato Hanafiah Hussain

The banana leaf lunch. From left Pauline Chew. Ignatius Chew, Tan Sri Dato' Hanafiah Hussain, Richard Chew, Puan Sri Mimi and Agnes Chew

It was after the end of the Chinese New Year when Puan Sri Mimi and her husband Tan Sri Dato Hanafiah Hussain paid a visit to Ignatius and Pauline Chew.

Every year the couple would fly to Penang to meet relatives but this year they decided to drive up.

On their way home to Kuala Lumpur they stopped over at Ipoh to visit her cousin Ignatius Chew. Ignatius offered to shout a banana leaf lunch to which she and her hubby gladly accepted.

How they met ....

Mimi is the granddaughter of Chew Boon Juan born to 8^th daughter Chew Gaik See and Charles Ang.

Mimi recalled that she met Hanafiah back in the early seventies when she was working as a ground hostess with then Malaysia Singapore Airlines. 

Tan Sri Hanafiah and Puan Sri Mimi on their wedding day 

"We met when a mutual friend introduced us. Nothing happened at first. Then when he used to visit Kedah he would come over to Penang to see me. 

It was when he began calling on me every day that’s when everything started".

I have been married to Tan Sri now for forty nine years. I cannot imagine that in a year’s time I will be celebrating 50 golden years of marriage” she laughed as if in disbelief.

The couple in later years

The meet-up in Ipoh was timely. The cousins had a lot of catching up to do that they adjourned to an ice cream parlor for another session before returning home.

JAG.