76-Year-Old Doctorate Holder Suffers Stroke A Month After Starting Hawker Job

“He took a bus to the hospital”

Dr Vic’s stroke happened almost two weeks ago. Simon (pictured above) was alarmed when he received a call from Dr Vic with the news. “I wanted to get him an ambulance, but he told me he took a bus to the hospital,” Simon tells 8days.sg.

Month-long MC

According to Simon, Dr Vic was given a 32-day MC and is now taking a temporary break from cooking at the stall. “He’s okay, he’s strong. He’s not physically affected by the stroke — he can walk fast in a straight line and his [facial muscles] are okay. He has recovered in such a short time that even his doctors were surprised.”

But instead of kway teow, Alvin is using the silky rice sheets usually found in kway chap for the pad see ew, which is offered with either Chicken ($6) or Beef ($8). The kway teow reua (Thai boat noodles) that Dr Vic had been serving is temporarily unavailable, though you can still get stir-fried holy basil dishes like Pad Krapow Gai ($5) and Pad Krapow Neua ($7) that come with either chicken or beef and a fried egg over rice.

Peace Thai Cuisine is at #02-52 Hong Lim Market & Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross St, S051531. Tel: 8927-6683. Open daily except Sun, 10am-3pm. www.facebook.com/peacethaicuisine.

Photos: Aik Chen/ Simon Ng