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Tastemakers: Wake up to better tasting capsule coffee with Singapore’s Morning

Mr Leon Foo, co-founder of Morning, at its retail store at New Bahru. ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN

Tan Hsueh Yun

UPDATED May 31, 2025, 11:15 AM

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SINGAPORE – In Britain , in Germany, in Russia, in South Korea, in Thailand and, indeed, in Singapore, there are people who wake up, slot a coffee capsule from an artisanal roaster into their coffee machine, push a button and wait for their cuppa joe to flow, not gush, out of it.

That sleek machine – The Morning Machine or MM730 – was developed in Singapore by Morning, a home-grown start-up. Its co-founders are coffee industry veteran Leon Foo, 42, and Taiwanese entrepreneur Bowen Chiou, 33, who was running his family’s manufacturing business in Taiwan when they met.

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