Last Updated on 2020-06-08 , 5:33 pm
So you think you have it worst: you can’t have bubble tea anymore, you have to go back to office to work since 2 June 2020 and you can no longer find a seat in public transport.
Just remember that someone has it worse.
Like Pamela Low, who started her hawker career on 1 March 2020 and a month later, Circuit Breaker kicked in.
Worst of all?
She sells soups—something that I won’t order during this period. Have you tried cold bak kut teh before?
But the hardworking lady is still going strong.
28-YO Hawker With Master’s Degree Sells Soup In the Morning & Used to Teach Tuition at Night
Pamela was featured in NEA’s Facebook Page yesterday as part of the Timbre X NYC Hawkerpreneur Incubation Programme.
The 6-month programme allows new and young hawkers to pay an all-in rental of $1,300 a month, and the hawkers will also receive mentorship from Timbre+Hawkers to further refine their culinary skills and operations.
Sounds great, except that COVID-19 came.
According to Shin Min Daily, the 28-year-old has just got her Master’s degree last year. She dreamed of becoming her own boss and after getting married and moving in Yishun in February this year, she thought, If I don’t do it now, I’ll never do it.
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Since she was young, her mother had often prepared soup for her. She then decided to sell soup, saying, “I don’t have any experience in the F&B sector, but I do have my family’s homemade tonic soup recipes. I believe that these soups have many health benefits, and contain no MSG and preservatives, so these soups are truly nourishing.
“These comforting soups are a testament to my stall’s concept of ‘less is more’, as you can get highly nutritious soup with just the right amount of ingredients, at affordable prices!”
Her mother and brother helped out in the stall: in the morning, she would man the stall with her brother, and at night, her brother would take over while she…went to give tuition in a tuition centre that she’s been working in for the last 4 years.
Tough? No.
Circuit Breaker then came, but she overcame that by tapping on food delivery platforms. Timbre+Hawkers’ Oddle page (kind of like an online store for eateries); that itself helped to increase her monthly sales by 25% to 30%.
This goes to show that tough times don’t last; tough men and women do.
You can check out her stall’s Facebook page here.
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