A visit: Uma Curry & Roti, a Haymarket curry house run by refugees & asylum seekers
It’s 12.30pm on a Wednesday, and May Sally Win, culinary maestro of Parliament on King is crisping up roti’s for lunch as a queue of patrons grows outside. But this is not their usual Erskineville headquarters; instead we’re at Uma Curry & Roti, Parliament’s new Haymarket outpost, and the crowd is more neon-lit corporate than breezy inner-west. Nestled in the middle of artisan food court Maker’s Dozen at Darling Square, Uma marks a significant new chapter in Parliament’s social enterprise project, the International Shift. Aside from providing hospitality training for refugees and asylum seekers, they’d also run a catering arm …