Serious Kim San Leng Coffeeshop Towkay And Patriot Uplorry!

[JohnTan]

Hoon Thing Leong, founder and boss of Kim San Leng coffee shop chain, passed away on April 29, 2021, aged 72.

He leaves behind his wife, three sons and two daughters.

Stubborn and hardworking businessman

Andy Hoon, 41, the second son who is now chief executive officer of the coffee shop chain, told media during the wake on April 30 that his father was a very traditional Chinese businessman, who was stubborn and very hardworking.

The younger Hoon recalled how when he was 11 or 12 years old, he would be woken up by his father at 5am to help out at the coffee shop.

The boy would make coffee and take orders.

The son said: “He always wanted his kids to start off with a humble beginning and not be like someone who was born into a rich family.”

Last conversation
The duo's last conversation was on Wednesday, April 28.

Hoon père told his son to take care of his mother if he died.

But the younger Hoon did not think too much about these words at that time as his father sounded "perfectly fine".

The elder Hoon's condition deteriorated by Thursday morning.

He died on Thursday evening at the Singapore General Hospital.

Hoon's death has been classified as “unnatural” and the family is waiting for autopsy results.

Chinese media reported that the elder Hoon battled a two-week fever before succumbing.

Hoon came from China to Singapore
Hoon arrived with his mother in Singapore from Fuzhou, China on a ship when he was five years old, The Straits Times previously reported.

He was the eldest of six children.

Hoon's father started a coffee shop in Hougang called Kim San Eating House, and Hoon worked there as a coffee boy.

Hoon then opened his own Jin Fa Coffee Shop in Bukit Timah when he was 23 years old.

Hoon's reputation as "Coffee Shop King" was sealed after he bought a coffee shop in Bishan Street 13 in 1990 by paying S$3.52 million -- S$2 million more than the starting bid.

He then renamed all his coffee shops Kim San Leng as a tribute to his father.

https://mothership.sg/2021/05/hoon-thing-leong-sons/

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

he died of what?
heartattack?
stroke?
covid?
a bit young to mati at 72
work so hard all these years, cannot enjoy very much on earth

 

[JohnTan]

he died of what?
heartattack?
stroke?
covid?
a bit young to mati at 72
work so hard all these years, cannot enjoy very much on earth

He was a fine towkay and grassroots leader.

 

[mojito]

Could it have some thing to do with vaxxing?

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

He was a fine towkay and grassroots leader.

u mean there's a correlation when one is a grasslooter and age of death?

 

[laksaboy]

I try to avoid patronizing the 'franchise' kopitiams wherever possible. Kim San Leng, Kopitiam Group, Kimly, Chang Cheng Group, S21 etc.

Look how they hyped him up in the past couple of years.

Kim San Leng: How A Man Went from Nothing to Owning Over 30 Coffee Shops
Jan 2019
https://www.ricemedia.co/current-affairs-features-kim-san-leng-hoon-moh-heng/

How This School Dropout Became Boss Of A Coffee Shop Chain With Over 30 Outlets In S'pore
Sep 2020
https://vulcanpost.com/714888/kim-san-leng-coffee-shop-chain-singapore/

 

[eatshitndie]

too much margarine, kaya, sugar, and sweetened condensed milk.

 

[waitifcuk]

too much margarine, kaya, sugar, and sweetened condensed milk.

KLN
Why bid the kopi pigeon cave at
S$3.52M????

 

[eatshitndie]

KLN
Why bid the kopi pigeon cave at
S$3.52M????

can earn back $6.9m from sinkies who gian png about kopi, kaya toast, and kueh kueh.

 

[rushifa666]

I try to avoid patronizing the 'franchise' kopitiams wherever possible. Kim San Leng, Kopitiam Group, Kimly, Chang Cheng Group, S21 etc.

Look how they hyped him up in the past couple of years.

Kim San Leng: How A Man Went from Nothing to Owning Over 30 Coffee Shops
Jan 2019
https://www.ricemedia.co/current-affairs-features-kim-san-leng-hoon-moh-heng/

How This School Dropout Became Boss Of A Coffee Shop Chain With Over 30 Outlets In S'pore
Sep 2020
https://vulcanpost.com/714888/kim-san-leng-coffee-shop-chain-singapore/

Next pciture is shaking harry yamashitas hand in hell with adolf

 

[rushifa666]

Oh so thats why he died. Stroke heng infected him

 

[face the facts]

I try to avoid patronizing the 'franchise' kopitiams wherever possible. Kim San Leng, Kopitiam Group, Kimly, Chang Cheng Group, S21 etc.

Look how they hyped him up in the past couple of years.

Kim San Leng: How A Man Went from Nothing to Owning Over 30 Coffee Shops
Jan 2019
https://www.ricemedia.co/current-affairs-features-kim-san-leng-hoon-moh-heng/

How This School Dropout Became Boss Of A Coffee Shop Chain With Over 30 Outlets In S'pore
Sep 2020
https://vulcanpost.com/714888/kim-san-leng-coffee-shop-chain-singapore/

honest question, are these the same people who keeps raising coffeeshop rentals and your barchomee goes from $3 to $4.50?
maybe died of too much money,

anyway RIP, 72 is normal age to die, hope he did some good deeds before up lorry

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

How was he a patriot? He built hospitals, schools or public housing? Lol.... KNN donating to charity for tax rebates doesn't count hor.

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

isn't he one of those culprits bidding jibuy high prices causing rentals to increase and food and drink prices to rise?

karma kills him early...

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Patriot my ass! What did he built beside coffeeshops to increase his personal wealth?

 

[waitifcuk]

can earn back $6.9m from sinkies who gian png about kopi, kaya toast, and kueh kueh.

KLN
Tiok Lah,
every second, 6.9 GCBs are born.

 

[waitifcuk]

How was he a patriot? He built hospitals, schools or public housing? Lol.... KNN donating to charity for tax rebates doesn't count hor.

KLN

With due Leespect,
"patriot"
refers to someone who vigorouslee defend Sgp against enemies.
So, who are his/our enemies?.

 

[waitifcuk]

isn't he one of those culprits bidding jibuy high prices causing rentals to increase and food and drink prices to rise?

karma kills him early...

KLN
His bid is 2,000,000++
peanuts more than starting bid.!!!!.

 

[laksaboy]

honest question, are these the same people who keeps raising coffeeshop rentals and your barchomee goes from $3 to $4.50?
maybe died of too much money,

anyway RIP, 72 is normal age to die, hope he did some good deeds before up lorry

There are hardly anymore classic 'kopitiams' in Sinkieland these days... most of them are wannabe (non aircon) food courts. Regular size stall partitions, one beverage corner, tables and chairs that are fixed to the spot etc. Also, no more family-owned stalls, but franchise owners or staffed by temp workers (tell-tale sign: the faces change all the time).

We had a Hin Hollywood Canteen but the rent-seeking whores had to demolish it to build another crappy generic mall.

You'll have to go to Malaysia to experience what a real kopitiam looks like.

This is 'Restoran Bobo', not far from the Batu Caves.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

When u pay $3 for a mixed rice.... with 2 vegetables in a coffeeshop, that is called screwing consumers. No air-con, no high rental but still high prices.