Boon Hock comes from a poor family and needs to balance school and helping out at the hawker stall.

恩赐飞腓节来自一个可怜的家庭和需要平衡学校和帮助在叫卖小贩摊位。

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Seow Lai Hao, 58, runs Chai Ho Satay, a hawker stall selling grilled chicken and pork satay sticks.

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Yet although she enjoys being her own boss, she also thinks that working in a hawker stall is not a job for young people.

BBC: Can Singapore's hawker food heritage survive?

As a schoolboy, he sold balloons for pocket money and, later, during World War II, started a little business peddling snacks from a hawker's stall.

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