In May, he was in good spirits and the family planned to take him on a holiday to Taiwan in December.
Fondly known as Uncle Harry to his customers, Mr Tan had been working there full-time, six days a week, right up to March, when he was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer.
The elder Mr Tan had been worried that he could be suffering from cancer and his worst fear was confirmed after a scan. But he took the news in his stride and went through four cycles of chemotherapy.In May, the elder Mr Tan was in good spirits and the family planned to take him on a holiday to his favourite travel destination, Taiwan, in December.
At 10.30am the next day, his father called to say he was coughing up blood. Mr Alan Tan, who was at work then, called for an ambulance. The business was started by Mr Tan’s mother, Madam Chia Nguk Eng, who became a street hawker in the mid-1950s, peddling Nonya kueh and glutinous rice out of a pushcart in Tiong Bahru.At the age of seven, Mr Tan started helping his mother full-time when his father died. He took over the stall in 1985 when his mother retired. His wife helped out on her days off.
In 2013, Mr Alan Tan left his corporate job as a general manager at an international information-technology security firm.
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