Britesh is a brand that explores how cultures continually evolve and adapt to new environments, while keeping their traditions and subtle habits.

The travelling chai tea stall is a part of the brand. It functions as a mobile business and is a way of engaging with different communities by setting up a temporary environment in public spaces. The product is the food and the tools by which it is made, served and eaten. Together they provide the common ground which allows me to have the same conversation, be it in Southall or South Kensington.

When my great granddad moved to Britain in 1950, he made a living selling goods door-to-door from a home-made cart. Through hard graft this began the chain of hardware shops now run by my family in Glasgow. By adopting the same business model, every £1 from a cup of chai feeds back into the stall allowing the business to grow. The aim is to rig up the stall in three-wheeler tuk tuks and sell cups of proper chai in and around the city.

The Chai tea cups were developed in collaboration with Ian McIntyre.