After receiving multiple news of the death of Hokkien mee and char kway teow hawkers and stalls closing down, Mr Ang Chip Hong decided to set up his own stall in hopes of preserving the dying trade.
But for someone who spent over 20 years in A*Star and and was a land IoT director at SMU, what would he know about Hokkien mee?
“I was offering as much as $4,000 to $4,500," he told The New Paper."Meanwhile, a chicken rice stall would have a line of applicants when the pay was $3,500.”His friend from Wuhan in China had a fried rice machine, which Mr Ang used to cook Hokkien mee and char kway teow. When TNP visited Wok AI on Jan 13, Mr Ang was testing three different plates of Hokkien mee, his version 8.0 that took three months to develop.
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