This bodyguard of Singapore presidents swapped gun for ladle to run her family's hawker stalls

[Les grossman]

SINGAPORE — When visiting hawker stalls around Singapore, it is not uncommon to see photographs of the stallholder with celebrities who have dined there plastered on the walls.


So, many diners may not bat an eyelid at the photograph of President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and his wife with Botak Cantonese Porridge’s crew, positioned squarely in the stall’s front glass panel at One Punggol Hawker Centre.

Second-generation hawker Lim Hwee Yi, whose parents own the porridge brand, said that the picture was taken when the couple patronised their stall in early July.


However, that was no chance encounter with Singapore’s head of state.


The 26-year-old shares a deeper relationship with the couple, having worked as their bodyguard for six months.

Fresh out of her polytechnic diploma studies and before taking over the reins of her parents’ hawker stall, Ms Lim signed on with the Singapore Police Force in 2019.

There, she served as a security officer to two of the country's presidents, guarding them and their spouses for about five years.

Ms Lim was the only one of the 20 or so cadets in the same training cohort to become a security officer, after she passed three stringent selection rounds.


After that, she underwent three further months of training to be a security officer, where she was taught to fight, to shoot, and to execute certain operations.



Ms Lim resigned from the force in May this year to helm her family’s porridge business, in a move that took her from the grand surrounds of the Istana to a neighbourhood hawker centre.

More at https://www.todayonline.com/feature...idents-took-over-family-hawker-stalls-2476906

 

[Taylorshit]

Her parent's stall is Botak Cantonese Porridge, The Food Dossier gave it only 6.7/10

TLDR: Things went from pretty great to, well, pretty bald.

https://www.thefooddossier.com/2023/07/botak-cantonese-porridge.html

 

[lostvirgin]

Guard Halimah that useless thing? She's as useful as a sanitary pad for a menopause cunt.

 

[Aaron carter]

Her parent's stall is Botak Cantonese Porridge, The Food Dossier gave it only 6.7/10

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TLDR: Things went from pretty great to, well, pretty bald.

https://www.thefooddossier.com/2023/07/botak-cantonese-porridge.html

See lah, guard jiak liao bee presidents until standard drop, forget to give correct no. of pork balls

 

[UltimaOnline]

Oops! Mods pls merge :
https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/th...adle-to-run-her-familys-hawker-stalls.370461/

 

[jurongkechil]

Ang mo chio. She from Australia or europe

 

[Taylorshit]

See lah, guard jiak liao bee presidents until standard drop, forget to give correct no. of pork balls

 

[sbfuncle]

Good for her.
At least she realised is better to be a human than a dog.

 

[NanoSpeed]

She named the stall Botak to suan the President, right?

 

[syed putra]

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Inclusive but got pork meatball.
Best if they serve hor fun. Teow chew porridge got nice Ikan kering type fish in black bean sauce.

 

[steffychun]

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Teticles?

 

[A Singaporean]

Respect. Obviously not a coolie gene Sinkie otherwise she would have just stayed at home and wait for cdc vouchers like the other disgusting coolie gene Sinkies.

 

[Balls2U]

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SINGAPORE — When visiting hawker stalls around Singapore, it is not uncommon to see photographs of the stallholder with celebrities who have dined there plastered on the walls.


So, many diners may not bat an eyelid at the photograph of President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and his wife with Botak Cantonese Porridge’s crew, positioned squarely in the stall’s front glass panel at One Punggol Hawker Centre.

Second-generation hawker Lim Hwee Yi, whose parents own the porridge brand, said that the picture was taken when the couple patronised their stall in early July.


However, that was no chance encounter with Singapore’s head of state.


The 26-year-old shares a deeper relationship with the couple, having worked as their bodyguard for six months.

Fresh out of her polytechnic diploma studies and before taking over the reins of her parents’ hawker stall, Ms Lim signed on with the Singapore Police Force in 2019.

There, she served as a security officer to two of the country's presidents, guarding them and their spouses for about five years.

Ms Lim was the only one of the 20 or so cadets in the same training cohort to become a security officer, after she passed three stringent selection rounds.


After that, she underwent three further months of training to be a security officer, where she was taught to fight, to shoot, and to execute certain operations.



Ms Lim resigned from the force in May this year to helm her family’s porridge business, in a move that took her from the grand surrounds of the Istana to a neighbourhood hawker centre.

More at https://www.todayonline.com/feature...idents-took-over-family-hawker-stalls-2476906

Is her mother Melayu? She looks like a Minah. Her borak father got potong or not?

 

[syed putra]

Is her mother Melayu? She looks like a Minah. Her borak father got potong or not?

Chinese name so definitely no malay blood. I suspect chindian. They are tough hence body guard.

 

[Sustanon]

the current propaganda seems to be glorifying being a hawker....

 

[True Believer]

She named the stall Botak to suan the President, right?

It is a fact and not merely an opinion

 

[True Believer]

the current propaganda seems to be glorifying being a hawker....

That is because most of the PME jobs are going to foreigners.

 

[True Believer]

Respect. Obviously not a coolie gene Sinkie otherwise she would have just stay at home and wait for cdc vouchers like the other disgusting coolie gene Sinkies.

She is willing to work hard wielding her ladle everyday. I doubt that she has ever wielded her gun except during shooting practice.

 

[k1976]

Her parent's stall is Botak Cantonese Porridge, The Food Dossier gave it only 6.7/10

View attachment 204410

TLDR: Things went from pretty great to, well, pretty bald.

https://www.thefooddossier.com/2023/07/botak-cantonese-porridge.html

The best Porridge in Chinatown was a store that used to setup beside blk 4 in 1970s manned by an old Auntie call 鹅姐

 

[Balls2U]

She is willing to work hard wielding her ladle everyday. I doubt that she has ever wielded her gun except during shooting practice.

I wonder what she does with the ladle when it is not used to cook porridge. Especially the ladle handle.....