When he read in October 2017 that Taiwanese chef André Chiang was going to close his eponymous restaurant in Singapore, filmmaker Josiah Ng felt compelled to contact Chiang and ask if he could document the final days of the two-Michelin-star restaurant.

Chiang, now 44, agreed, not knowing the result would be a full-length documentary called André & His Olive Tree that was first released in Taiwan on Aug 21, is now streaming on Netflix and will come out in cinemas in Singapore on January 14.