Candy Yiu spent her ninth month of pregnancy building a mosaic on the Malka patio.
Yiu was one of the owners of the maximalist Southeast Division restaurant, though she didn’t take much space in the spotlight. She was a fan of chefs Jessie Aron and Colin McArthur since their food cart days, making crispy rice salads as Carte Blanche. Yiu wanted to invest in them, and helped the two chefs open their restaurant while she worked in the tech industry. The restaurant opened as an otherworldly converted home, filled with art and plants and antiques and mismatched chairs. When Malka closed, she couldn’t bring herself to get rid
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