Perched along a sleepy row of shoplots in a commercial area in Subang Jaya in Selangor is T Bob’s Corner. Upon a cursory inspection, the restaurant may look disarmingly nondescript and benign, but take a look further into its recesses and you’ll discover a glass encased outdoor area where all the action happens. The show-stealing spectacle guaranteed to change your perception of the place takes shape in the form of the gleaming smoker that the eatery’s co-owner Mohammad Arizal and his business partners devised as a DIY project.

“We learnt how to make it from YouTube videos and experimented with different shapes using recycled items. Most of it is fashioned out of old tongs (drums), ” he says nonchalantly.

Arizal fashioned his smoker himself with recycled materials and uses local wood to fuel it.