Serious Sinkie IT Division Head For MNC Upgrades To Sell Oppie-Style Bak Chor Mee!! Sinkie Following His Dreams To Be Towkay!!

[JohnTan]

Two-month-old Soon Heng Pork Noodles sits at an inconspicuous nook of the kopitiam located at the junction of Neil Road and Keong Saik Road. It serves only one item: bak chor mee in soup, with mee kia, mee pok, thin kway teow or mee tai mak. For the uninitiated — this soupy version of bak chor mee is often known as “Bedok style”. It's made famous by the many Teochew stall owners in the area selling the dish, especially those in Block 85 Bedok North Street 4 (aka Fengshan Food Centre).

From the outside, Soon Heng doesn’t seem very special. But their regulars — spanning middle-aged uncles to impeccably dressed OLs and sleek creative types — start streaming in even before the lunch hour.

Helming the little stall is a jovial, rosy-cheeked 44-year-old Andrew Tan who looks every bit the hawker stall towkay: except that his last position was as an IT division head for an MNC (he declined to name the company). A tech guy cooking bak chor mee? For real.

https://www.todayonline.com/8days/e...rned-hawker-serves-bedok-style-soupy-bak-chor

 

[mojito]

For you, with you, Mr Tan!

 

[JohnTan]

I'm heartened to see so many younger sinkies trying to save our $3 per meal sinkie hawker tradition. Perhaps this sinkie UNESCO trade, famed for its long hours and low prices, will endure.

 

[sweetiepie]

Helming the little stall is a jovial, rosy-cheeked 44-year-old Andrew Tan who looks every bit the hawker stall towkay: except that his last position was as an IT division head for an MNC (he declined to name the company). A tech guy cooking bak chor mee? For real.

KNN this is 1 of the easiest ft replaceable position KNN

 

[laksaboy]

And thus begins the propaganda about how being a hawker or kopitiam stall 'towkay' are viable career paths for everyone.

 

[ftan42]

saport garmen career switch

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

What kind of journalism is this? Didn't probe why he left. Did he earn a comparable wage? All these questions are basic no?

 

[AhMeng]

KNN this is 1 of the easiest ft replaceable position KNN

Hahaha.. you hit his sore spot...

 

[borom]

What kind of journalism is this? Didn't probe why he left. Did he earn a comparable wage? All these questions are basic no?

A govt controlled press ranked 151/180 in the 2018 World Press Freedom Index-and this is what you get.
Good chance got retrenched and replaced by Indian nationals or Pinoys from Universities we have never heard of.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

This is shit journalism. Sure let’s just promote the fucker’s business. No reason to understand the motivation or actual financial situation! Heck we won’t even find out if the food is good. We will just trust the motherfucker !

 

[A Singaporean]

Too proud to admit that he was replaced by cheaper FT from Anehland ?

 

[KuanTi01]

People like to glorify the hawker business with such new entrants but essentially, being a hawker is nothing but pain and suffering and standing for long hours.

 

[sweetiepie]

From the outside, Soon Heng doesn’t seem very special. But their regulars — spanning middle-aged uncles to impeccably dressed OLs and sleek creative types — start streaming in even before the lunch hour.

KNN what has sleek creative type got to do with this KNN they only eat special food meh KNN even pm also eat mee siam KNN

 

[mojito]

Too proud to admit that he was replaced by cheaper FT from Anehland ?

What to do? Sinkies all like to be towkay. No choice lah!

 

[po2wq]

I'm heartened to see so many younger sinkies trying to save our $3 per meal sinkie hawker tradition. Perhaps this sinkie UNESCO trade, famed for its long hours and low prices, will endure.

u shud haf stuck 2 calling him a retard 4 selling tis kind of make no moni biz n sel ur hi crass pasta n ramen ...

Only retards be hawkers. One bowl of sinkie cuisine sells at barely $3 whereas a bowl of pasta or ramen can easily sell for $10. Any sinkie with common sense should go sell pasta and ramen instead of loser sinkie cuisine.

 

[eatshitndie]

never like bak chor. mostly floating fat and fatty ground pork. every time i have mee pok i request for no bak chor.