Hawkers In Maxwell Food Centre: Keeping The Legacy Alive | On The Red Dot | Singapore Hawkers
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Located in the CBD, Maxwell Food Centre is one of Singapore’s most well-known hawker centres. But with work-from-home now the default, the absence of working crowds takes a toll on the hawkers there.
The owners of two well known stalls, China Street Fritters and Oriental Duck Stall, have survived decades in the hawker trade. Originating from roadside stalls at China Street, these hawkers have seen themselves through SARS, bouts of avian and swine flu, as well as the 2008 financial crisis.
But with age catching up to them, and no successor in sight, they reckon with the fact that COVID-19 may be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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Uncle and aunty. thank you very much for your service. Sad to see you go, but you have earned your retirement, enjoy the rest of your lives
Honestly, I think the hawker stall look cleaner than the restaurants I have worked at.
This place is really prime tourist spot comparable to Newton hawker, Govt can always do more by helping the hawkers lower their overhead cost from rental but then again quite a number of the more popular stores actually make a lot of money the work is hard though but they still make a good living but then again some stores just have too many competitors around so your product more or less has to stand out.
Probably casual dining where you worked
@@kenken0175 I would term it restaurant on a fast food level.
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Excellent documentary!! We should spread more awareness online so that people can continue to support our traditional hawkers and keep the food heritage going :)
What Seth said is so true. I kept buying food from my local coffee shops and hawker centers to support them but didnt realise the ones getting hit the most are the hawkers in CBD. Will definitely drop by Maxwell to support these coming weekends
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Fon support drlivery
I used to work at Maxwell House across the street and bought lunch there all the time. Not in Singapore anymore, back in Indo now. Miss those times.
Thank you very much Hawkers for providing such a tasty and cheap meals for all these years. I had a beautiful time with the food over there. If things get back to normal. Please give these hawkers a big tip.
Really heartbreaking to watch what is happening to the Hawkers at Maxwell and the other centres. I live in Australia and love visiting Singapore and the Hawkers throughout the Island are the heart and soul of the country. I look forward to going back as soon as it is possible.
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I miss this place at maxwel hawker center they are all so nice and friendly,, the food are cheap and taste so good,, I wont replace this place to any expensive restaurant, maxwel is always the best and other hawker center around singapore too.. I love you singapore hope I can comeback again soon for my 9th times if this pandemic finish... I miss all the foods and the people,..
My daughter is in Singapore for more than a year now, have not see her and missed her so much. Remembered when we still can travel she used to bring me to eat local food food at hawkers in Singapore when I came for a visit her. She also bring me to eat at Jewel a few times when she's back to Singapore. Really really missed her.
Can't wait to come back to Singapore and patronize all these wonderful hawker stalls.
haha it's all i do whenever i return, take all my $$ XD
I respect these hawkers. They started at a young age and some of them inherited it from their parents. They are a cultural heritage. But sad to say during the COVID-19 pandemic they were affected & father time catches with them. I missed the food they are serving. ☹️
one of the best places with the most iconic stalls!
Hello friend
I hope hawker owners still keep holding on. I a Filipino love Singapores hawker culture.
Respect and wishes from China. Thank god the pandemic is over and the influx of visiters is back. I'm visiting in a week and Hawker Food is on my must-try list.
This is so sad.
I've always wanted to visit Singapore and head straight to the hawker centers to enjoy as much of the delicious food as my wallet and stomach can handle. I've seen countless videos and articles proudly showcasing Singapore's hawker culture.
Just looking at the food from my computer or phone screen makes my mouth water!
Having lived in Hong Kong (currently in the Philippines) most of my life eating street food and Canto cuisine, I know without a doubt the food in Singapore is something to try at least once in my life.
I dearly hope that my wife and I will still have the chance to do so soon, once it's relatively safer to travel again!
18:55 "We are planning to retire next year, March 2022"
Thank you so much for not retiring!! I will forever remember China Street Fritters. Please never retire ^_^
Maxwell is one of my favorite hawker center too, cause my family usually stay at Bay Sands, and it's not that far by taxi. I really miss eating there jeezz ;((
always enjoy your great food - a true Legend, we salute 🏆
I lived in Singapore for 2 years, still consider it's my hometown too, excellent documentary
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On one hand the authorities want to preserve our hawker heritage and get more young people to go into the hawker culture. But then they increase rental. It is absurd and ridiculous to raise their rental. This is the problem with our government, lip service only with no idea what's happening on the ground.
Always their pattern.. Now give you rebate, later raise your bill. Always show nice to the world and yet let local hawker owner swallow the cost..Our hawker center and food given the Unesco real benefit should give to hawker themselves because their hardwork, effort and time.
How about the consumers who are willing to pay $20-50 to eat at restaurants but complain when hawker food raise prices by 50 cents? Its bc people are not willing to pay for good food just bc its in a hawker centre thats why nobody want to be a hawker anymorr
i miss eating and traveling to singapore.. foods here in hawker are tasty and cheaper than junk fastfood
Wow, so much work and these folks are not rewarded well.
Stuck in the UK and i miss Ngoh Hiang :(
Respect to the hawkers!
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We regularly had weekend lunch in one of our local chinese stall until one day they stopped the business and never been found again by many customers. What a lost of an authentic taste and place. Hawker's food can be a great miss to their customers' hearts even until generations.
I have Visited here many Times, So Sad to see how COVID has Affected the Hawker Scene.
Proud to have eaten at World heritage site.
When I was in Singapore, Maxwell was my local Hawker place. I would get something from there 2-3 times a week and found the variety of food was amazing. I miss so many food things from Singapore, but Hawker food I miss the most. I hope that my favourite stalls survived the bad times. Gyoza, Phad Thai, Kway Teow and the much needed lime juice. Few other varieties, but those were my regular ones. So sad that in UK, can't find lime juice anywhere and also can't find the correct noodles to try and make Kway Teow. Hopefully all the aunties and uncles can survive this - and more importantly, hopefully someone will take over. To me, as an outsider who had 3 amazing years in Singapore, hawker stalls were such an important part of what makes Singapore.
30% commission. I wonder if those ivy league graduates at grab actually consider if this is a viable model for the hawkers..or maybe just viable income source for their landed houses.
Those people are leeches. Same thing here in Indo with Gojek. They use american benchmark where food is around $10 with $7 profit margin. But in Asia, where most hawker only make $1-2, it just doesnt work
Our Hawker food price have already hit a premium price. With these food delivery guys giving it another push. It is going to be the same price as going into a restaurant.
All these, are blood sucker. A stupid low quality green bag selling to their delivery men for four hundred! The cost of the bag is less than a hundred. That is to make up to pay for his landed luxury property. The poor delivery guy is paying for it.
In F&B industrial life is not easy pathway now days, compare to the past time..
Do what you love. Love what you do.
Utimately Stallholder have greater heart than those people setting up online platform business. 小饭老板初心的价值远过平台的野心和贪心。
Singaporeans have like a Taiwanese accent. So hard to tell until they speak English. It’s so interesting.
Its called as "Singlish"
Very saddening to see Maxwell Food Centre stalls, stallholders greatly affected by Heightened Alert measures like I always go there after doing some important stuff and I find peace and comfort there.
Ahh, I missed a lot. Hope one day can visited again 🙂
@Steve Wolcott why ?
@Steve Wolcott wow really ?
Bro. No worries go ahead of your retirement as age catching up. Sure got people take over.
Same here retiring soon 65 food industry is hard long hours. Never get home till 10pm 7days a week
I tell my relatives if they travel they should go to Singapore for the good hawker foods.
20:40
SO VERY TRUE.
My mouth is juuust waaaaatering watching this =) love and respect from a white boy in Canada that wishes he had such glorious beautiful food choices at hand in my city =D
I think the government should provide generous support.
$1 million for this simple recipe, just pay me $100k, I teach my recipe. There's one stall at Boon Lay hawker centre selling the fritters that's as good as theirs.
I 101% salute and respect to all 3 local hawkers business owner,, without which, we can't have this real authentic foods of different dialects group.. Especially to Mr NG from Chinese fritters, 12 years old working at that time and 16 years old take over business due to financial and look after family . Now we looked at our youngster of 12 or 16,they should get wiser , be more hardworking and find some work to do.
Hello friend
This is really good!
Maxwells stalls need not support,,always long queues,,can’t find table to seat..plus Covid measure 2 months rental relief which make them richer
Nice video - informative and great choice of music too!
Hello friend
I don't think its worth etiquette its about knowing how to survive in a tough world. a worker will always have less interest in the health of the business than a business owner.
My favourite stall for Ngoh Hiang
Omg i miss sunto gyoza beef noodles stall.
Singaporean has to be grateful, today we Indonesian fighting 2 pandemics : Covid-19 & stupidity. 😖
Different places deal with different things and environment. You cannot ask A director to do A supervisor job right?
Not many!!! Uncle you give me la... The traditional foods won't truly die off... A lot of traditional foods are home food... Young eat until old, eat until die...
It is all about HARDWORK
most things are in life =)
Wow 1 million dollars for the recipe.
Exactly, do write down or better video down the whole preparation process and cooking process.
My grandma is a hwaker too and i already learned her recipe for her best dishes. We even flim it while she prepared the food. These video also make great memories n bonding time.
Come lah Singpore people, speak your Hokkien lah. This is not China.
The mindset now is different. In the OLD DAYS It is about survival. Today it is about being my OWN BOSS. Uneducated verses educated.
Will they ever quit? Most of the owners are more than half a century old,. It looks to me they're lighting their life candle in the kitchen. Hopefully there aren't regrets when the light ceased.
CNA should do a Special and interview the nice ministers what they think about this.
Grab, the market leader in Food Delivery, requiring 30% commission on hawkers whose margins are so so low. Nett effect is hawker food prices will have to go up i.e. inflation in a struggling economy.
NEA increasing the rent by 40% in a pandemic, also inflating hawker food prices in a struggling economy.
What have the government done to assist to keep the hawker culture going?
Minimally, they could delay rent increases, allow easier access to foreign labor markets for hawkers..... I am no scholar, I dunno what else they could do. But don't hit the hawkers when they are down!!!
Go check out who are the shareholders of grab. The ministers are under the party whip of their party and can't said anything on such matters at all. Singaporeans shouldn't dream of their government is able to help them out at all in this regard. They should already be thankful if pap doesn't spur their hides even more instead in their daily lives which is a fat dream in life in Singapore.
@@anglo-saxonconnor817 are you Singaporean?
How early does the China Street fritters stall close or sell out? Any chance to go for weekday dinner? How about weekends?
19:22 wow $1 mil for the business, if you have $1m, go buy blue chip stocks that earn you average 5% interest . Mean $50k a year and no need hard work.
After KAYLEE sell out their business fail. The Hawker take over have lose it's shine.
Wow.. $1 million for recipe.. free also hard to find someone to take over.. 😅😅
Ridiculous price! The person who took over the stall cannot even make 1 million easily!😂😂😂
likely the price for venture capitalist who want to invest in the brand and make it a franchise.
Singapore hawker food dominates the food landscape probably as much as 2/3 meals bought in Singapore. Its a sector that provides income to a broad range of lower to middle skilled people while providing affordable, convenient meal to large swath of the population. It can, sometimes, be an economic asset but at its core problem most food are not designed for scalability so its limited as an asset. If as a people and country we keep chasing money while not willing to pay for culture and food culture is the most basic culture, then it will dissappear by natural economic force reflecting what we value, who we are
Retribution- the hawkers at those places have been fleecing people for years. High rental are charged by original owners who sublet to others.
and yet 40% raise in rental and $1 bid increase to $300 min ?
Hope someone or some organization will make a special app for hwaker who does not charge more than 15% commissions.
We should try to support these hwaker too. They work hard to maintain cheap and large variety of food for us.
no charge commission then who pay delivery riders? lol
@@noproblematallmate are u blind or unable to read? Did i say no charge commission?
Also even with no commission added there are delivery fee.
Are u some greedy delivery rider who hope to suck blood off everyone so you can earn $5 per trip and make hundreds daily?
@@celestialstar124 wtf are you even clear of the situation before commenting?
drivers already make $5 and more per trip.
I am a hawker who also did Grabfood delivery while working as a hawker during spare time.
@@noproblematallmate so i am right you are a grab food delivery rider.
Working as hwaker during spare time. Lol
Certain food are meant for takeaway eg fast food. Homemade food is the best but in the 21 century if the factory can do it then it will not be a LOST TRADE. Unless someone have the CALLING to do this
It will be lost in the sense that the mass produced factory stuff is simply not the same as the lovingly produced food from one person to another, the character and pride put into that food cannot be recreated in a factory setting.
when companies-corporations take over, their focus is on cutting losses and making profits. ingredients are sacrificed from time to time and quality cannot be attained because a lot are premade products, packed frozen. many restaurants/f&b chain buy them in bulks.
@@sunchildtine exactly
feel so sad.... in another 10 years time...... Duck Rice and Ngoh Hiang will be considered premium delicacies in high-end restaurants ... spend $30 to $40 for a plat of Duck Rice...
Pay S$ 1 million liaos still gotta slog from 6am till evening. OMG, if really sincere to pass down the receipe, need the fee be so high???
I thought the uncle with red shirt is Teo Chee Hean
Nonsense lah DR Leslie Tay not all the hawker stalls doing well but the finish soup and chicken rice store here is everyday long queue one hor. If your food is good the crowd will come Covid or no Covid I work just across the street I eat from the fish soup store almost everyday whenever I have the chance to come into office and also the oyster cake there is pretty classic but costly still it is old school visitors coming should try. Chicken rice with the queue is over rated but still many good chicken rice store here.
Remember Never be a Hawker it’s the worst business only lunch & dinner busy after lunch time in between now you are free to catch flies 🪰👏👏👏
If they can do it, anyone can do it. Just need a bit of time to figure the recipe.
I go and I look , I go and put nose to street to look for. I go and I no see. So sad no children want to take it over.
The food of this duck seller must be tasted..There must be a lot of supporters of this duck seller..That means there is money to study the business carefully and then decide what is actually required. Please do the study before this duck man is dead..
Hawker food is just street food. Street food will never be worth 1million dollars. It's like selling snow to the Eskimos
There isn't much jobs for Singaporeans to do in Singapore. Being a hawker is among the most common choice a typical common Singaporean can have in Singapore. This is their fate. Whether it is a good or sad thing is a matter of perspective and how well you understand and agree or disagree with the intricacies of Singapore governance decisions and vision. Hey its a big world and some people do truly enjoying doing service orientated work and selling tissues on the streets while others might not so whatever float one boat then.
I asked in my reply in your other comment if you are Singaporean. From this comment of yours, I guess you are not. The typical common Singaporean is an educated office worker. Don't sprout your limited knowledge about our SG and judging SG with your Anglo-Saxon roots. You are here to make a living so have some respect.
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No wonder, all these drlivery all run by who,who is the owner?
Some pretentious people can clear tray at IKEA but when ask them clear tray at hawker centre they kpkb. At least now we have another way to easily identify who are the dirtbags of society.
疫情期间大家都不好受，没染疫已是万幸，少赚一点又算什么。
Goodbye chinatown curry rice,chinatown ngo hiang and 中国街卤面。现在只能在梦中回味。现在的孩子们没口福了
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ITE (its the end) RIP
Enjoy your retirement 👍👍👍✌✌✌👏👏👏🤣
You guy must ask for compensation from China CCP government.
hahaha....heritage became hesitate lo......think
Their plan is to reap off some retirement fund.
Didn’t feel like supporting them at all due to the frustration with the new tray clearing law. With the ban on dining in, I emphasised on home cook food instead and managed to reduce my dependence on takeaway to about twice per week. Managed to save approx $350 last month. I rather bring my business to restaurants with proper service from now on.
Edit: The top two cliché rebuttals from online good Samaritans wannabes who blindly support the tray clearing initiative :
1) Does insisting that cleaners should continue doing their jobs as before just because we paid for it means that as taxpayers, we can litter indiscriminately in order for cleaners to sweep instead of bring it to the trash bin?
Ans: Now this is plain silly. There is a distinct difference between blatant disregard vs standing up for consumers' rights. I advocate diners not making a mess of their tables especially creating "wantons" out of used tissue paper which I find particularly disgusting. But as diners, we can maintain a certain standard of tidiness eg; stacking utensils, piling food waste on the side etc within the confines of our tables so that cleaners may COME to us and perform their jobs efficiently.
P.S : The sheer amount of food waste is a consequence of complicated food menus which ought to be served and appreciated at diners' own pace at a proper restaurant with dedicated bussers but are now pushed out factory styled speed which overload cleaners.
2) We returned our trays at SAF cook house during NS with nary a whimper of complaint means that we should be OK with doing it in the public as paying consumers.
Ans: This is hypocrisy of the highest order. Now, most people I am acquainted with dislike NS and ICTs. But it is ad nauseam to reminisce fondly about a hated regime in order to justify excessive virtue signaling. I experienced the cookhouse culture pre food catering days. And I HATED washing and clearing the trays in a prison-like environment. Hello... people didn't complain because it is the damned military. Soldiers kept their mouths shut unless they want a butt kicking.
Lol you make your dining choice based on whether got people clear plate for you. Even Primary School students can clear their own plate. You really pathetic. Faster hire a few more maid to wash the kitchen after you cook.
@@noproblematallmate Of course. People usually dine out for convenience. And not having to do chores is part of that convenience. If you like paying AND clearing up, it also means you like to do self checkout for your groceries at supermarkets. Consumer rights be damned right? Rather than chasing after cleaning companies to upgrade pay, labour standards etc. You good Samaritans wannabes go and pathologise paying diners to do free labor for these cleaning companies who fail to fulfil their contracts. Guess what, now these same companies are hiring Tray Return Ambassadors at a higher salary than the cleaners who do all the work. Lmao
@@munster1404 convenience my ass... if you are Singaporean you really disgust me with your attitude. Why not argue that you pay tax so you throw litter on the floor for cleaners to sweep instead of bring it to the thrash bin? Stop being so ignorant. You girl or guy? Nvr go NS before? Say this kind of thing xia suay Singapore.
@@noproblematallmate The tax rebuttal is a dumb argument. Totally irrelevant. Ignorance and standing up for consumer rights are two entirely different matter. This means you cannot comprehend how civic mindedness had been hijacked to masquerade as cost cutting measures. Asking about gender or NS liability is also a moot point. But if you want to know, I’m a guy who served 9 years in the RSN as a regular. Reminiscing fondly about how we used to return our trays at SAF cook house yet most of us hate NS is hypocrisy at the same time allowing consumers being criminalised. You get it : SAF free food vs food/service that I pay for in the outside world?
@Steve Wolcott What a loser who throw a tantrum coz mummy is not around to clear your dishes for you. at IKEA you also nvr clear own tray? disgusting...