Hi Clive, I agree, the hawker food industry in Singapore is
dying. Apparently, most young Singapore generation do not know how
to cook and most of them are quite highly educated. They preferred
to work for people and get paid a fixs monthly salary, yearly
bonuses and employer’s monthly CPF contributions to
their CPF. To be in a food business is not easy
because most of the time you will be busy preparing food for
tomorrow while the customers sleep at night.
The future for hawker centres in Singapore looks gloomy and if
the government lower the monthly rental for hawker stalls, it will
not help them to encourage young Singaporeans to go into food
business in hawker centres either. Unless, they allow Malaysians to
open up food businesses in Singapore to carry on the traditional
foods in hawker centres.
It is no pride if cooking traditional fares, that is the main
cause. Besides Sg is now a playground for the rich and they eat in
fanciful restaurants with foreign sounding menu. It is dying more
on demoralisation than anything else.
