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‘Hidden’ Bukit Timah Dessert Stall Serves Refreshing Penang Chendol With Off-Menu Toppings Like Grass Jelly

['This month has been one of the hottest in Singapore’s weather history, and a bowl of ', 'refreshing chendol', ' sounds like just the thing to cool down in this sweltering heat.', 'One of the little-known spots to get Penang-style chendol is ', 'Ye Tang', ', a stall that is tucked away in an obscure corner at Beauty World Food Centre. It has a signboard boasting “absolutely authentic chendol.”', 'No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from ', '8days.sg', '.']

Rui Ji Chicken Rice Owner Opens New Ubi Restaurant, Employs Accident & Illness Survivors For Career Opportunities

['There are many ', 'chicken rice stalls', ' in Singapore, but ', 'Rui Ji Chicken Rice ', 'is unique in that it employs disabled staff who are considered atypical hires in the F&B industry.', 'The chain is opened by a relative of the folks behind Sing Swee Kee Chicken Rice at Seah Street, which itself is another ', 'family-run offshoot', ' of the iconic defunct Middle Road stall Swee Kee Chicken Rice. ', '“My mother is a Moh — her father [Moh Lee Twee] founded Swee Kee. Her siblings were in a ', 'legal dispute', ' over the family inheritance, but we prefer to do our own thing here, which is to uphold our family’s chicken rice legacy,” Rui Ji’s second-gen owner, Joseph Tan, 58, tells ', '8days.sg', '.\xa0 ', 'Swee Kee, which closed in 1997, was widely hailed as the pioneer of chicken rice and served the best version of it in Singapore before its closure. Sing Swee Kee (which means ‘new Swee Kee’ in Chinese) and Rui Ji (Swee Kee’s Mandarin pronunciation) have names that were derived from Swee Kee.', 'No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from ', '8days.sg', '.']