3rd-Gen Hawker Of Popular Koh Brother Pig’s Organ Soup Opens Offshoot Stall In Maxwell Food Centre
Good news for fans of Koh Brother Pig’s Organ Soup, a hawker institution in Tiong Bahru Market and Food Centre with more than sixty years of history. The well-loved stall, awarded with a Michelin Bib Gourmand since 2019, quietly opened an outlet at Maxwell Food Centre in June – selling the same signature dish of assorted pig organs in a clear broth spiked with salted mustard greens, but under a different moniker.
Meet the very literally named The Pig Organ Soup, whose mod, minimalist branding is in stark contrast to the retro storefront of the Tiong Bahru HQ. In fact, the affiliation to Koh Brother isn’t even mentioned at all. Which begs the question: why?
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The patriarch (far left) then handed over the reins to his son Simon Koh (second from left), 61, in 2003. Thomas joined the family biz in 2013 at the age of 25. On why he decided to quit his previous corporate job as a graphic designer for the life of a hawker, he says, “My parents aren’t young anymore, and with pig’s organ soup, you need even more manpower than a usual hawker stall. [The stall] was about 50 years old then – I thought it’d be such a waste to let this business close down.”
Subsequently, the millennial took the lead in the biz in 2018, cooking daily with his parents at the Tiong Bahru stall.