Oli Khan

In 2022, he donated dried food to around 2,000 people in his hometown of Rainager in Bangladesh during Ramadan.

Khan and the team of Surma Takeaway Stevenage hold the Guinness World Record for cooking the largest onion bhaji. He received his MBE (Member of the British Empire) title at the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2020.

In February 2020, Khan and his team at Surma Takeaway also broke the Guinness World Record for largest onion bhaji. It weighed 175.48 kg (386 lb 13.8 oz).

In 2020, when Khan won the Guinness World Record, for the largest onion bhaji, it was used to feed more than 500 people, including 300 homeless people in London and the proceeds from the event were donated to the East London Mosque Trust.

At the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2020, Khan was awarded with MBE honours for his services to the hospitality industry and his charity efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK and abroad.

Khan eventually became the owner of some curry houses in Stevenage and Luton. Surma Takeaway was opened in 2002. Stopsley Surma was also opened, and Spice Rouge, which was formerly the White Hart pub until Khan bought and converted it into a curry house in 2010.

Khan opened his first restaurant, Tandoori Knight, at the age of 17. At the age of 23, he opened Kismet, his first curry house, with his brother-in-law in Linlithgow in 1995. Khan sold Kismet and moved south of Linlithgow after his father's death from cancer.

Khan grew up in the Sylhet region of northeastern Bangladesh. He moved to the UK in the late 1980s. His father served as a waiter in Britain and eventually became the owner of a curry house in Kent.