Popular He Zhong Carrot Cake Hawker Puts Up Adorable ‘Closed For Sakura Season’ Sign

Cutest closure sign

But on Mar 27, netizen Wei Lian (transliterated from Chinese) noticed that the stall was closed. Pasted on the metal shutter was a handwritten sign.

It cheerily said in English: “Closed for sakura season. 27th March to 3rd April.” And in Chinese: “Cherry blossoms are in bloom! Off to admire flowers!”

As it is now peak sakura season in Japan, we presume that the family running the stall is heading for a well-deserved holiday there. Considering how hard hawkers work, we can sense their vacay excitement from the exclamation marks punctuating the notice. Very cute.

Unique carrot cake

He Zhong Carrot Cake serves only white chai tow kway without dark soy sauce, yet it is still one-of-a-kind. It has the requisite chye poh (preserved radish bits) and radish cake (commonly called carrot cake in Singapore due to a literal Chinese translation) added to an omelette.

But He Zhong’s version boasts house-made radish cake cut into unusually thick cubes, and fried with beaten eggs so you get a plate piled with hefty discs of chai tow kway.