Raphale Evans’ mum Joanne makes fried dumplings for him six days a week. Hundreds and hundreds of them. He sells them at his cafe and health food shop ARMR Store, in Ardwick, in the sight line of the Apollo.
He’s tried to make them for himself - he’s seen them being made often enough - but somehow, he just can’t get them to taste the same. “I’ve tried, but there’s some things that mums do the best,” he says.
Plus, it means that his mum is part of the business that he pours everything into - time, money, emotion, heart, soul. And that’s a nice thing for him.
Raphale - Raph - opened ARMR Store on March 30, 2019. He gave up his job as store manager of Predator Nutrition in the Arndale Centre - he’d worked for Holland & Barrett before that - in December of 2017, and thought he’d be open by the following January.
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