{"id":13298,"date":"2025-11-21T07:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13298"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:45:34","slug":"viral-gen-z-school-canteen-vendor-who-closed-stall-sells-matcha-from-hdb-bedroom-window-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13298","title":{"rendered":"Viral Gen Z School Canteen Vendor Who Closed Stall Sells Matcha From HDB Bedroom Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We first discovered 27-year-old Rayner Tan several months ago on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@veg.eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, where clips of him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/newsandreviews\/singapores-first-prata-vending-machine-springleaf-prata-place-845336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toasting prata<\/a> and plating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/hawkerfood\/guy-expelled-polytechnic-bounces-back-open-vegetarian-hawker-chain-selling-buttermilk-fried-chicken-and-char-siew-kolo-mee-origanics-buangkok-hawker-centre-825971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vegetarian meals<\/a> at Hearty Green, a vegetarian canteen stall in Mee Toh School in Punggol, caught our eye. Before long, we dove down a rabbit hole of comforting videos showing different parts of his life.<\/p>\n<p>One moment, he\u2019s cycling to school before dawn; the next, he\u2019s chatting with students who recognise him from social media. And in another, he\u2019s highlighting his home-based biz hustle after wrapping up a day at the canteen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More recently, a now-deleted clip of him \u2018educating\u2019 primary school kids (their faces are always blurred for privacy) on basic manners became viral online. On the final day (18 Nov) of school before the holidays, Rayner revealed that he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/gen-z-canteen-stall-vendor-closing-business-850386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not be renewing his contract with the school<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8days.sg<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  { if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n   n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n   if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n   n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n   t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n   s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n   'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '686778738188379');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/newsandreviews\/mee-toh-school-canteen-vendor-home-based-cafe-corner-pane-matcha-850476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first discovered 27-year-old Rayner Tan several months ago on TikTok, where clips of him toasting prata and plating vegetarian meals at Hearty Green, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}