“There were customers who saw that it was me doing the frying and said, ‘Oh I don’t want already’, and I was sad lah,” said Huang Jun Ming, who is now learning the ropes to take over his father’s very popular char kway teow hawker stall.
, where the line is so long that customers had to be stopped from joining the queue as the food was already sold out.
He recalls: “Some customers tried my char kway teow and cancelled their takeaway orders halfway through eating. When I asked my wife to sample some of my food, it was so bland! So I adjusted my recipe until there was enough flavour.” Chin Chye had observed his son leaving for work early in the morning and returning home only late at night. “I felt it was very tiring for him. He might as well come and work for me. It’s better if you slog for your own business,” he opines.
Chin Chye is one of the few - if not only - char kway teow hawker who starts serving his customers at 5.30am. “Taxi and bus drivers who are hungry will come to our stall in the morning, because they know we open early,” he says. “I wake up at 2am every day, and I’m here by 3am.”
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