It's not uncommon when your favourite Char Kway Teow or Hokkien mee stall suddenly "disappears" when the old hawker stall owner decides to retire, and there's no one willing to take over.

Jifeng, who'd developed his own recipe, had quit his full-time job as an engineer a year ago to set up the Hokkien mee stall. "I decided that if no one wants to do this job, I have to rely on ...