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Norman bin Musa (born 20 November 1974) is a Malaysian chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur, based in London, United Kingdom. Born in Butterworth, Penang in Malaysia, he was the co-founder of, Ning restaurant in Manchester, and owner and Chef Patron of Nasi Dagang restaurant in Malaysia.
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Life, career and awards
Musa is a Malaysian Malay. He was raised by his parents in a kampung called Sungai Nyior in Butterworth. Following his secondary education, he gained a scholarship to study quantity surveying at the University of Portsmouth from 1994. After graduation in 1997, his first job as a quantity surveyor was in Bournemouth, Southern England before relocating to London in 1999. In 2003 he moved to Manchester, where he continued to practice as a quantity surveyor.
In 2006 he took a break as a quantity surveyor to plan, design and develop a restaurant with his partner at the time. The restaurant, Ning was located in the Northern Quarter and opened for trading in December 2006, focusing on Malaysian cuisine and Thai cuisine. Norman acted as Head Chef at the restaurant whilst also returning to his role as a quantity surveyor in 2007 once the restaurant was up and running. Once the restaurant business took off, he left his career in quantity surveying in 2009 to work full-time at Ning. A second Ning restaurant in York was open from 2012 to 2014.
He has received the Hospitality Guild's Young Hall of Fame award at a parliamentary reception at the House of Commons and was awarded runner-up in the Asian & Oriental Chef of the Year at the Asian Curry Awards 2013.
In March 2017 Musa was handed a five-year disqualification for employing illegal workers at Ning. The disqualification follows an investigation by the Insolvency Service, which found that Musa failed to ensure the business completed relevant immigration checks on its employees, resulting in the employment of two illegal workers.