Chris Yeo, on Food and the Finer Points of Grooming

Before Straits Restaurant Group Chef-Co-Owner Chris Yeo became known for his Chinese, Singaporean, and Malaysian food stylings in the kitchen, he let his hands go wild in a salon—Yeo’s Hair Design, to be exact. The Hong Kong-born chef opened his own San Francisco-based hair salon in 1980, after attending Vidal Sassoon’s school in London. But it wasn’t long...