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"For years, he fed hundreds and thousands of people with his own hands and while at it, he showed the world how a biryani is made delicious by just putting one's heart to it. Yesterday marked the end of an era," Moin Jaffer Mansuri, the third of the master chef's four sons and the fifth of his seven children, told Khaleej Times a day after his father was laid to rest in Mumbai's Bada Qabristan on Marine Lines following maghrib prayers. He breathed his last earlier in the afternoon at the Breach Candy hospital after scripting a legacy that stretched seven decades, transcended borders and drew thousands of biryani faithful around the world, including those here in Dubai and rest of the country.
"It was his pure passion to feed people that made him truly special," said Moin, who runs the eponymous Jaffer Bhai's restaurant on Zabeel Road in Dubai and was all set to open a second outlet in Barsha on September 11. "All of that has been put on hold, obviously. He was due to come and inaugurate the restaurant. He had also vowed to spend at least a month with us this time in Dubai but it's a promise he sadly couldn't keep," added the Dubai restaurateur, who last spent time with his father in Dubai in 2017 for "few days" on his way back to India from an Umrah trip in Saudi Arabia.
"He always reminded me that the foundation of his business was the reputation he painstakingly built over the years and that I must protect that name and image," said Moin, while recalling a story of how his father started out by delivering biryanis on a bicycle he bought in the 1950s for what was "a stash of Rs180 (Dh9)" in those days. Jafferbhai's restaurant in Dubai was voted one of the country's best biryani outlets in an unofficial poll by two Emirati bloggers in 2017.
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