Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam shared an inspiring story behind one of his hawker food haunts over the weekend.
On Saturday (Nov 8), he took to Facebook to speak about Hai Nan Zai, a hawker stall at Chong Pang Market and Food Centre selling a variety of local stir-fried dishes including oyster omelette, hokkien mee — and according to the minister, one of his favourite hawker foods: carrot cake.
He opened the post with: “Teo: A carrot cake chef and a fighter.”
Continued Shanmugam: “Teo has been frying carrot cake and char kway teow at Hai Nan Zai for the past five years. He makes a very good plate of carrot cake — crispy, full of flavour with a hint of wok hey.”
But the minister also spoke about other aspects beyond the dish.
In the post, he also revealed that Teo, the hawker behind the stall, had been diagnosed with stage four intestinal cancer.
The minister added that the hawker has since completed chemotherapy and will be going for his review soon.
