With food prices rising each year, it’s rare to find a hearty, filling hawker meal for $3. Yet, 56-year-old stall Covent Garden Kway Chap is still offering its satisfying bowls accompanied by braised ingredients from a reasonable $3. And the food continues to be dished out by it’s 89-year-old founder, Chua Meow Ching. During 8days.sg's recent weekday breakfast visit, we observed how efficient the petite lady was: focused and rather sprightly as she took orders in Teochew, as well as sliced up and plated the gravy-soaked offal.
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1/101/10Started kway chap biz over 50 years ago -
2/102/10Runs the stall with her sons -
3/103/10Her secret to staying healthy at a ripe old age -
4/104/1010 to 12-hour work days -
5/105/10Went viral after re-opening post-circuit breaker -
6/106/10Not planning to retire anytime soon -
7/107/10The menu -
8/108/10The kway, 50 cents for small; 70 cents large -
9/109/10Braised ingredients, from 50 cents -
10/1010/10Bottom line