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Our young hawkers are not just taking heat from the stove, but from the older generation.

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Our young hawkers are not just taking heat from the stove, but from the older generation.

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For this young hawker, taking on his father's rojak business had his name on it - literally.

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For this young hawker, taking on his father's rojak business had his name on it - literally.

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is reserved demeanour and tattooed arms make Sebastian Kwek quite a mystery. As he sits huddled over a round white table at the coffee shop below Block 59 New Upper Changi Road, with the rain coming down in sheets, Kwek quietly contemplates the questions put forward to him. Why did he choose to take over […]

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here’s little to no chance of getting lost in the spanking new Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre, the second of 20 new hawker centres the Government pledged to build by 2027. Here, colourful directional arrows hang overhead, some bearing a cheeky scrawl of local slang like “sedap (delicious)” corner. It’s how we find our way easily […]

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[dropcap size=small]”O[/dropcap]NE KOPI-C KOSONG! Who ordered one kopi-c kosong, takeaway?” She might be just 29 years old, but Faye Sai has the traits you’ll expect of a seasoned hawker. The feisty marketing graduate joined her brother, Jack, 32, to take over a family business that dates back 81 years ago, when their grandfather started San […]

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NE KOPI-C KOSONG! Who ordered one kopi-c kosong, takeaway?” She might be just 29 years old, but Faye Sai has the traits you’ll expect of a seasoned hawker. The feisty marketing graduate joined her brother, Jack, 32, to take over a family business that dates back 81 years ago, when their grandfather started San Hai […]

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[dropcap size=small]F[/dropcap]ew would imagine the lanky, shaggy-haired guy working the curry rice stall at an industrial-building canteen as having been a sharp-suited foreign exchange trader working “short and sweet” hours at a local bank. Joel Chia would rather you see him as a dead ringer for Hong Kong actor Stephen Chow anyway. “The physicality of […]

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ew would imagine the lanky, shaggy-haired guy working the curry rice stall at an industrial-building canteen as having been a sharp-suited foreign exchange trader working “short and sweet” hours at a local bank. Joel Chia would rather you see him as a dead ringer for Hong Kong actor Stephen Chow anyway. “The physicality of the […]

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[dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]n an unassuming corner of a neighbourhood coffee shop, Almalic Faisal faces a snaking queue. Unfazed, he patiently turns his hands expertly to flip and twirl a piece of dough: left to right and right to left, until it is stretched thin and nearly four times its original size. This art of making a […]

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n an unassuming corner of a neighbourhood coffee shop, Almalic Faisal faces a snaking queue. Unfazed, he patiently turns his hands expertly to flip and twirl a piece of dough: left to right and right to left, until it is stretched thin and nearly four times its original size. This art of making a good […]

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