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88 Katong Laksa at Circuit Road Hawker Centre first made headlines in March 2022 after Melvin Chew, founder of Facebook group Hawkers United Dabao 2020, visited the stall and shared the hawker couple\u2019s story on the Facebook hawker group.<\/p>\n
Owner of the stall, Charlie Soh, affectionately known as Uncle Soh, has been battling Stage 4 cancer for the past 15 years, though the exact diagnosis is unclear. He says he has undergone multiple surgeries on his kidney, pancreas and spine.<\/p>\n
After being diagnosed with late-stage cancer in 2010, Soh opened the stall circa 2018 so that his wife Irene Soh would have a livelihood after he passed on. With doctors giving him only one and a half years to live back in 2022, Charlie Soh has defied the odds.<\/p>\n
In April 2025, the stall closed for a week after he was hospitalised at Changi General Hospital for swollen ankles from his first immunotherapy treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n After he was discharged from the hospital, Irene Soh reopened the stall alone. “Irene has no alternative but to open her stall to recoup her losses [sic] of incomes for the past 12 days,” Charlie Soh wrote on Facebook back then.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this year, the stall again closed for a month while Irene Soh recuperated from second-degree burns \u201cto her hands and leg whilst doing her cooking at the stall\u201d, Charlie Soh wrote in a post on Jan 4. She had also undergone knee replacement surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n