Ex-SBS Bus Driver, 29, Sells “Malaysian Homemade Fried Chicken” At Hawker Stall
He was inspired by Malaysian chain Winner’s Fried Chicken, which originated in his Ipoh hometown.
Fried chicken might be the ultimate comfort food — it’s simple, sinful and when done well, so satisfying. That’s part of the reason why Ipoh-born Bryan Yap, who hasn’t been back home since the pandemic unfolded, decided to open a hawker stall in a kopitiam on Queen Street peddling deep-fried chicken with a homemade recipe that the Singaporean permanent resident says is inspired by the fried chook he used to eat back in Malaysia.
The 29-year-old opened My Chicken Castle in October with his Singaporean business partner, Ching Kok Jiunn, 45, whom he’d met at his previous job at a personal chauffeur company, which came after he left his job as a bus driver with SBS Transit.
8days.sg speaks to the millennial hawker to find out what inspired him to start a business selling “Malaysian homemade fried chicken”.All photos cannot be reproduced without permission from 8days.sg