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‘Help Young Hawkers, Or Else There Won’t Be Another Generation Of Hawkers’: The Hainan Story Boss Funds Stallowners To Open Outlets

['It i', 'sn’t easy', ' being a hawker — adding to the struggle with long hours, laborious work and demanding customers, these food sellers also have to grapple with keeping food prices low amidst manpower shortages and ever-increasing rent hikes.', 'The stoic pioneer hawkers feel the pain, and the young hawkers, possibly ', 'even more so', '. Educated and ambitious with wide-ranging career opportunities, they chose to enter the hawker trade to continue their parents’ business legacy, or to fulfill a passion to work in the food industry.\xa0', 'Which is why one F&B boss decided to fund two millennial hawkers to open outlets and expand their businesses. Terence Aw, 39, runs the popular ', 'at Tanglin Halt Food Centre, and Eunice Seah, 38, is the third-generation owner of ', '.', 'Their outlets are all located at a newly revamped coffeeshop at Blk 326 Woodlands St 32, which officially opened today (May 26).', '8days.sg', '.']

Vietnamese Hawker Whose Family Owns 3 Houses & A Biz Back Home, Sells Yong Tau Foo In Woodlands

['When she was just 21, Camelia Nguyen, now 29, made the bold decision to leave her comfy life in ', " to pursue a career in Singapore. Eight years later, she's the new", ' owner of her own ', ', ', 'Yi Xin ', ', located in a quiet coffee shop within ', 'an office building at a Woodlands industrial park. It’s hard ', 'to miss her stall with its cutesy sign board featuring a cartoon drawing of its lady boss.', 'No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from ', '8days.sg', '.']