Finance veteran now banking on ‘chee cheong fun’
DESPITE a high-paying job in the banking industry, a woman in her early 40s decided to quit the job and pursue her dream of selling rice noodle rolls, reported Oriental Daily
and Sin Chew Daily.
Yong Yean Hui, a Malaysian living in Singapore for the past eight years, said there were more than 100 hawker centres in Singapore but it was difficult to find a stall that specialised in chee cheong fun.
“Even if there is, the stall only has one type of sauce,” said Yong, who set up her own stall in April at the Maxwell food centre, offering chee cheong fun with sauces that include curry, as well as the typical black and red sauces with sesame seeds.
It also comes with laksa gravy with eggs, fish ball, taukee (bean curd skin roll) and five-spice meat.
Yong, who took a six-month vacation to 18 countries before setting up her business, said that the flavours of her sauces were inspired from her journeys.
“My chee cheong fun sheets are different too, as I modified the texture using my own recipe,” she said, adding that she had a supplier who was able to produce the flour sheet rolls according to her recipe.
> X-Men actress Fan Bingbing has been banned from the China film industry for allegedly evading tax, China Press reported.
Quoting a source from China’s film industry, the daily said that the 36-year-old actress would be banned from filming movies or television series for three years.
In May, China’s tax authority launched a probe following allegations Fan signed “yin-yang” or dual contracts, with a public version stating her official pay and a confidential one with a higher figure.
Last month, China’s social media was flooded with rumours that Fan and her brother Chengcheng were detained to assist in investigations.
China issued new regulations on celebrities’ income tax rate, raising it from 6.7% to 42% applicable for backdated earnings since January
That would mean Fan still owed the Chinese government some 5mil yuan (RM2.99mil) in unpaid taxes for the past six months.