“The shaved ice must be densely packed into a uniform ball. Tan will also keep several shaved ice balls in the freezer, to stabilise them even further. But it is a little harder for char koay teow hawker Soon Suan Choo, 73, to make sure the takeaway version of her char koay teow will be just as good as eating it fresh off the wok. “Previously, during the good times, I got to sell more than 100 plates of char koay teow but now I only manage to sell around 30 packets a day. “I only depend on walk-ins as well as my regular customers,” she said when met at her stall on Sunday.

Source: The Star June 08, 2021 23:37 UTC