Singaporeans encourage police officer turned hawker after her video about low December turnout went viral Singapore News

SINGAPORE: A young hawker who took to social media to share her worries about low customer turnout in December received a lot of encouragement from Singaporeans sympathetic to her plight.

Some even asked where her family’s stall was so that they could bring in some business.

Hwee Yi used to be a police officer but ended up taking over her parents’ Cantonese Porridge Business (Botak Porridge) at Our Tampines Hub. She let go of her job to help her parents retire early and travel the globe, which they’ve long wanted to do.

But this month has not been easy for Ms Hwee, as she shared in a TikTok post that has since gone viral.

In the opening slides of her post, she simply wrote that business has been “okay,” albeit “a bit slow” recently. However, in her last slide, she wrote that “on a deeper level… I really hate the …