Teen’s lorry char kuey teow draws crowds


Hard at wok: Yu stir-frying char kuey teow in the back of a lorry in Sitiawan. — Photo courtesy of Sin Chew Daily

Compiled by C. ARUNO, ZAKIAH KOYA and R. ARAVINTHAN

A TEENAGER who sells char kuey teow from the back of a lorry is making waves in his hometown of Sitiawan, Perak, Sin Chew Daily reported.

There were queues of about a dozen people waiting to buy from Yu Huo Yun, 18, who had earlier lost his job as a deliveryman.

Most of his patrons said they wanted to check out his food due to the novelty of seeing a young man preparing char kuey teow from a lorry, while others were repeat customers.

Yu said he learnt to make char kuey teow from his brother who used to be a hawker in Penang.

“One day, my elder brother tried my char kuey teow and said I was ready to open my own stall,” he said.

After being laid off from his job, Yu took his brother’s advice and started the char kuey teow stall using the lorry he had been driving to send out deliveries.

Yu admitted that he did not expect the lorry to be the X-factor that captured public attention.

He said the stall, which started three months ago, had no customers on the first day and it dawned on him then that running a business was not easy at all.

“Right now, my business is not bad. My biggest problem is that I get nervous when the queue gets longer. I’m afraid that I can’t fry fast enough and will lose my customers.

“I will try my best to overcome this,” he added.

Yu’s stall is open from 6pm to 10pm every day, selling char kuey teow for RM6.50.

> A woman, who recently lost her job at a pretzel store in Kuala Lumpur, alleged that she had been harassed at a previous workplace, China Press reported.

She wrote on social media Xiaohongshu that she had CCTV footage to back up her claim.

However, Internet users appeared uninterested.

“Go make a police report. You don’t have to tell us about it,” one wrote.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.

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