{"id":70400,"date":"2026-07-21T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=70400"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:23:01","slug":"chomp-chomps-ah-hock-fried-hokkien-noodles-hawker-dies-aged-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=70400","title":{"rendered":"Chomp Chomp&#8217;s Ah Hock Fried Hokkien Noodles hawker dies aged 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Veteran hawker Ng Hock Chuan, the man behind Michelin-recognised Ah Hock Fried Hokkien Noodles at Chomp Chomp Food Centre, has died at the age of 79, according to a Facebook tribute shared by a long-time customer.<\/p>\n<p>According to an obituary shared in the comments of the post by Facebook user Calvin Li, Ng died on Jul 16.<\/p>\n<p>Best known for his old-school Hokkien mee, Ng was also said to be part of one of the families that pioneered Singapore-style Hokkien mee.<\/p>\n<p>The customer shared that they had visited Chomp Chomp Food Centre looking forward to a plate of his Hokkien mee, only to discover the stall closed and learn from a neighbouring hawker that Ng had passed away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I saw the stall closed, I asked the neighbouring hawker if Uncle was okay. They quietly told me he had passed away,&#8221; the customer wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/dining\/ah-hock-fried-hokkien-noodles-hawker-death-6266861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran hawker Ng Hock Chuan, the man behind Michelin-recognised Ah Hock Fried Hokkien Noodles at Chomp Chomp Food Centre, has died at the age of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--_1tAhz81--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_141\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/07\/21\/ng_hock_chuan_ah_hock_fried_hokkien_mee_chomp_chomp_centre.png?itok=t0MBezln","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5747,26882,26883,3134,1853,1177,20971,2665,1736],"class_list":["post-70400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-aged","tag-chomp","tag-chomps","tag-dies","tag-fried","tag-hawker","tag-hock","tag-hokkien","tag-noodles","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70400","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=70400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}