Sun Kee Drinks has cheap old-school soya bean in Kovan 

“You know last time one bowl of noodles only 10 cents leh.” If there’s an aunty in your life, whether she’s your mum, neighbour, or actual aunt, you’d probably have heard this grumble before. Obviously, not many of us take it to heart, since shelling out $5 or more on a single drink without batting an eyelid is a common phenomenon now.

But if said aunty refuses to stop complaining about inflation, you can bring her to Sun Kee Drinks to reminisce about the good old days. This hawker stall sells drinks at $0.30, and hasn’t raised prices since 1985. Curious about why and how they continue as they do, we decided to visit their stall to find out.

Owners of Sun Kee

There was a line at Sun Kee when we arrived, and the stall owners, a husband-and-wife team of Goh Kai Suah, 61, and Chua Choon Huay, 59, hardly had time to catch a breather between the ebb and flow of visiting customers for the entire time we were there. They serve a simple menu of three drinks—Bird’s Nest, Soya Bean and G...