{"id":27565,"date":"2026-01-11T06:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27565"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:50:43","slug":"hong-lim-fire-shuts-zi-char-stall-indefinitely-leaving-80-year-old-hawker-unable-to-eat-or-sleep-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27565","title":{"rendered":"Hong Lim Fire Shuts Zi Char Stall Indefinitely, Leaving 80-Year-Old Hawker Unable To Eat Or Sleep Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After watching his zi char stall \u2013 his life&#8217;s work and his family&#8217;s sole source of income \u2013 go up in flames, hawker Teo Koon Guan has not been eating or sleeping well.<\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old, who has been running Ho Kee Seafood at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/hawkerfood\/accountant-handmade-beancurd-taiwanese-toppings-ddsd-tau-huay-soy-milk-hong-lim-food-centre-790371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hong Lim food centre<\/a> for more than two decades, used to have a hearty appetite and could down two or three bowls of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/newsandreviews\/sim-student-home-cafe-loyang-baked-curry-rice-room-cafe-852286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rice<\/a> at a go, said his wife Piti Saowanee, 52.<\/p>\n<p>This changed after the blaze.\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><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/hawkerfood\/hong-lim-food-centre-fire-ho-kee-seafood-hawker-couple-llivelihood-loss-852491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching his zi char stall \u2013 his life&#8217;s work and his family&#8217;s sole source of income \u2013 go up in flames, hawker Teo Koon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27566,"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-27565","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\/27565","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=27565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}