Unsurprisingly, the lights is very nice in the air-conditioned 21-seat eatery, which is filled with antique furniture. ” You feel at home here. My parents ‘ house, which they downsized, has some furniture in it. Wong claims that my uncle and my grandfather still work at the electric store that is right across the street.
He works full-time at the shop with his mother, who manually records orders placed by consumers. ” There’s no point of sale machine – I ca n’t afford it yet! Whatever profit we make, we]reinvest ] it here”, says Wong, who personally cooks at his shop.
The shop serves as a key home and pick-up stage for Mum’s Ngoh Hiang clients as well as for those who hanker for a hot meal right away. However, it is now a less hard to find, and sales has dwindled, as the region is under weighty building for the future expansion of the Thomson-East Coast Line.
There are also good and bad days. We have, in my opinion, reached out to more of our guests. However, there are times when we do n’t have any customers at all. If we did n’t start our business online, we would have died. It’s an benefit that we own this place, though we still have to pay for services”, Wong points out.
However, he intends to finally “venture out” and open a takeaway restaurant for Ngoh Hiang. ” Like a Mum’s Ngoh Hiang express kiosk”, he laughs. He likewise plans to introduce a teatime-friendly “meat and corn pressed hamburger” to go with his eateries coffee and tea variety.