Anya Meals was founded last year as a service for parents to provide wholesome home-cooked meals for babies and toddlers. The halal offerings include simple yet gourmet, with the likes of stewed apricot oatmeal, lentil millet stew, parmesan panko pasta and more entrées that are probably way more nutritious than plain ol’ baby food.
But the journey for its founders — husband-and-wife duo Jayina and Aiman — was not that straightforward. Especially so for Jayina Chan, the Chinese Muslim convert whose path towards embracing Islam almost burned the bridge with her mother, who refused to attend her wedding. In an interview with video channel The Good Guyde, Chan recounts how she started diving deeper into Islam, how she met her husband, how her relationship with her mother eventually healed, and of course, how the idea for Anya Meals came about.
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