Fook Seng GoldenHill Chicken Rice has $2 chicken rice

$2. Chicken rice. When these two concepts combine, you bet our team is intrigued. Finding a $2 plate of chicken rice is almost like looking for a needle in a haystack—and yet, we found exactly that at Fook Seng Goldenhill Chicken Rice.

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En route to the Bukit Merah eatery, I was holding onto a piece of paper filled with questions for Mr. Chew, the eatery’s 73-year-old owner. But only one question persisted in my mind: how, or why, does he swim determinedly against the current, especially in today’s economy?

I recalled being half an hour early for my interview with Mr. Chew and was slightly abashed for eating into his break time, but he warmly invited me to his stall with a cup of coffee. As I waited in the corner, I observed his laid-back yet confident demeanour that exuded ease and expertise. 

Curious about his story, I broke the ice with my first question: How did you start selling chicken rice?