['In less than a year, curry stall ', ' (Hokkien for ‘eat curry’) at ', 'Chinatown Complex Food Centre', ' has undergone a complete rebranding, going from selling Indian-inspired curry to Japanese food under the name ', 'Oh! My Bento', '. While this seems like an abrupt change since she had garnered a bit of buzz after ', ' articles and ', ' on her stall, it also kinda makes sense considering that hawker Larine Goh, 40, used to own a Japanese restaurant (named My Bento Booze) at Kovan for five years. It shut down in December 2022 due to increasing rental and manpower costs -', ' Larine lost $100K back then, as reported in our ', '.', 'No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from ', '8days.sg', '.']
['Nestled\xa0in an quiet Bukit Merah industrial canteen where Western chain ', 'Botak Jones', ' is located, ', ' catches ', '8days.sg', '’s eye with its striking poster advertising 桶仔鸡 (', 'tong zai ji', '), or what it calls “', 'Taiwanese chicken in the bucket”. Chicken House is not to be confused with a similarly named ', ' eatery in Thomson.', 'It is not chicken ', 'served in a bucket', ' a la ', 'KFC', ', but rather the Taiwanese speciality where the bird is traditionally ', 'smoked in a barrel with a sugarcane and charcoal fire. Both barrel and bucket are called ‘tong’ in Mandarin, hence the slightly confusing moniker here.', 'Besides its signature chook, ', 'the four-month-old stall helmed by entrepreneur-turned-hawker Gilbert Chua, 54, also offers a variety of affordable chicken dishes like Hainanese chicken rice, Taiwanese-style three\xa0cup chicken, and kung pao chicken.', 'No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from\xa0', '8days.sg', '.']