What next for Miss Chu?

Once a citywide staple, this week Misschu​ stores in Bondi, Darlinghurst, Glebe and the CBD reopen as Saigon Lane, with new owners. With the famed moniker fading in Sydney, what has become of the group's founder and former owner Nahji Chu?

Chu has brushed herself off after seeing her group slip into voluntary administration and be sold, rustled up some new investors and is set to reload in 2017.

"We're opening Cocochine, a high-end Vietnamese restaurant, in March or April, at 47 York Street, and also at 5 Ward Avenue in Potts Point at the end of June. Potts Point will also have a Cocochu, where you'll be able to design your own dumplings," she says.

The restaurateur's quirky eye for detail evidently remains. "Cocochine will feature spinning "Lazy Chus" on tables," she tells Good Food.