The five-month-old Penang prawn mee stall previously had more generic branding. Its revamped signage looks suspiciously similar to another stall selling Hokkien mee.
During our chat with Boon Pin, now a Singapore PR, we ask about his eye-catching signboard, which bears a striking resemblance to Hokkien Man Hokkien Mee’s one. Even the names of their stalls and the towkays’ hairdos are similar. Boon Pin says it was his nephew who designed it and he had no idea they were so alike until a netizen pointed it out online.
He’s not bothered by the similarities and didn’t ask his nephew about it ’cos “what’s done is done”. And changing the signboard was not an option ’cos it had already been revamped once.“I designed the previous signboard. The stall’s name was originally in Chinese with the Hokkien name ‘Pin Neng Lang Prawn Noodles’ below it. But my family thought it was ugly, so we redesigned the signboard and menu in January.
is now helmed by his brother. When Boon Pin relocated to Singapore in 2006, he worked as a home renovation contractor, focusing on door installation, for a decade before switching careers to become a hawker assistant and cook. He learned the ropes at hawker stalls Lin Ji Pig Trotter Rice and Bai Nian Niang Dou Fu, both at Albert Centre Market and Food Centre, for five years, before investing $12K to open his own stall last year.
“Part of the reason why I changed careers was ’cos I injured my leg and have difficulty squatting [to fix doors]. Hawker life is tough. I feel overwhelmed ’cos I run the stall alone and there are endless things to do, but I never regretted taking this path.
But it seems like he has nothing to worry about. There was a constant stream of customers at the stall when 8days.sg dropped at 3pm on a weekday and there were times where Boon Pin had to pull down the shutters so he could catch a breather and have his lunch.work and eat at the same time,” he quips.Despite the Penang prawn mee branding, this tastes closer to our local hae mee, which is not spicy. Boon Pin doesn’t add chilli to his broth to cater to more customers.
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