Keeping his "superwoman" Mom in the dark, he returned to Tainan and, with some friends, put their money into a small shop they called Byblos, selling home-made cookies. Within a year, as if they were doing a whole street reconstruction in the manner often seen in Japan, they rented the two neighboring houses to open a "nouvelle cuisine" noodle restaurant and a clothing boutique.
他瞞著女強人媽媽，回到台南與友人合資「黎巴嫩玫瑰」小舖，販賣手工餅乾，一年內像在推動「造街」般，把隔壁兩間老房子都租下來開創意麵食、服飾店。