Jiakali Curry Hawker Shuts Biz & Opens Japanese Food Stall In Same Food Centre; Rent ‘5 Times More’
In less than a year, curry stall Jiakali (Hokkien for ‘eat curry’) at Chinatown Complex Food Centre has undergone a complete rebranding, going from selling Indian-inspired curry to Japanese food under the name Oh! My Bento. While this seems like an abrupt change since she had garnered a bit of buzz after 8day.sg’s articles and Tiktok posts on her stall, it also kinda makes sense considering that hawker Larine Goh, 40, used to own a Japanese restaurant (named My Bento Booze) at Kovan for five years. It shut down in December 2022 due to increasing rental and manpower costs - Larine lost $100K back then, as reported in our previous story.
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