Edmund Lye hasn't told his mother-in-law about his stall, Oyster Boy, at Golden Mile Food Centre. 'I don’t dare to tell her ’cos she’ll say, ‘Why are you doing this when you have a good office job? What if you don’t succeed? What’s going to happen to your wife and kids?’”
“You can say I am going through a midlife crisis,” quips Edmund Lye, 42, when 8days.sg asks the first-time hawker why he decided to start Oyster Boy, his three-month-old stall selling deep-fried oyster cake at Golden Mile Food Centre.
“When you have kids and a family, there are a lot of responsibilities on your shoulders. My wife is still working , which is why I dare to take this risk. If I stay in my old job, I’d be in my comfort zone forever.”Lye invested around S$20,000 to open the stall, situated beside the popular Golden Mile Curry Rice, in March. He runs the business with his mum, who used to work as a cook in a zi char stall.
“Also, to me, you can’t ask your relatives and friends to buy [stuff] from you. You get the impression you are doing well, then a few months later when they stop buying, sales drop. I hope [my friends and family] only find out [about Oyster Boy] when the business is stable, and I’m making money.”Lye's love affair with oyster cake started in his teens when a friend introduced him to hawker stall Maxwell Fuzhou Oyster Cake.
“I lost money in the first month. Things picked up in the second month and I managed to break even. Some days I can sit here playing with my mobile phone the whole day. This is also why I am scared to tell my mother-in-law about the business,” he said candidly. Making each fritter is a time-consuming process. Lye slowly spreads the ladle with a thin batter made from three types of flour, then adds a layer of minced meat, three shrimps and two oysters around the edges, before covering the filling with more batter, a sprinkling of silverbait, and lowering it into hot oil to fry.
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