About Us

Never Give Up & Find Your Passion

The Bavaria’s story began with two IT guys, Kenny Tan and Liaw Chee Quan. Giving up IT job offers that came with a RM15K salary in Australia, they chose to return to their Malaysian home ground in favour of IT entrepreneurship.
But Kenny took notice of Liaw’s disinterest in the field. Rather, Liaw preferred to pursue something in the F&B world and he was a foodie, to boot. Unsure of what products to create, Kenny suggested starting the business with healthy teas as Liaw was suffering from insomnia due to his caffeine reliance while working. They agreed to do just that, and for R&D, Liaw switched over to replace his caffeine intake with fruit and flower teas, thus reducing his coffee consumption. “However, none of them could fulfil both taste and nutrition at the same time. [They’re] either bland with nutrients, or tastes good but added too much artificial flavouring,” .
They pooled together some friends, Khaw Wei Jing and Chew Zhi Wei, with backgrounds in food science and civil engineering respectively. Their meeting discussed ways to provide people with a tea that was healthy, tasty, and instant at the same time. It took place at Kenny’s father’s homestay, Art Villa, located in Alor Setar. By the end of that meeting, the four of them had created The Bavaria.

Our team always believes that everything is “can-do” and hard work will always get rewarded. We started at my father’s homestay where we gathered every weekend to discuss the progress. Most of the partners sacrifice their “rest period” after work to make progress.