Mr Harry Tan Kim Song, second-generation owner of hawker stall HarriAnns Nonya Table at Tiong Bahru Food Centre, died on June 14 of colon cancer and pneumonia. His death was announced on HarriAnns’ Facebook page on June 15. He was...
Inundated by orders for Nonya kueh and festive cookies during the peak Chinese New Year period, Mr Harry Tan endured the abdominal pain and continued to work.
But in early June, blood clots were found in the elder Mr Tan’s lungs, and he was given medication to thin his blood. “My father was coughing up blood, but he was lucid and even waved to me. I gave him a thumbs-up sign as the nurse wheeled him in,” he recalls. Mr Harry Tan’s work days began at 3am, cooking the glutinous rice so he could sell it, along with Nonya kueh, from 6am to 1pm.While he kept to his mother’s original recipe for glutinous rice, he expanded the kueh range with kueh salat, ondeh ondeh, kueh keledek , tapioca kueh and kueh koswee.
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