The Straits Times published this following story about a char kway teow seller offering to teach his skills to anyone willing to fork out S$10,000 to learn it:

However, the story should have been about the char kway teow hawker's plight of having to sell his skill to raise money for his cancer treatment:

This unfortunate re-positioning of the crux of the story started out life as fake news on June 30, 2017.

The eldest son and current owner of Armenian Street Char Kway Teow had to come out to refute a Lianhe Zaobao story that the family business started by his late father in 1949 was going to be sold off:

The bespectacled man featured in all the newspaper reports is the youngest son of the original char kway teow seller. He has cancer.

So, to reiterate: This is a story about the Armenian Street Char Kway Teow legacy and how the youngest son of the original char kway teow hawker has to close his stall, sell his cooking technique to a willing apprentice, just to raise S$10,000 for his colon cancer treatment.

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So here goes:

The original char kway teow stall hawker is the late Tan Chong Chia, also known as Lao Chen.

He opened the family's first fried kway teow stall at the corner of Armenian and Loke Yew streets in 1949.

After closing down in 2001 (or 2007, depending on who you ask), when the coffee shop the stall was in was demolished, it disappeared.

In 2011, Armenian Street Char Kway Teow reopened at Block 303, Anchorvale Link in Sengkang by the eldest of the four brothers, Tan Boon Kiat, 60.

He is the current owner of Armenian Street Char Kway Teow, which uses his father's recipe.

The youngest brother is Tan Boon Teck, 49, who was running the other Block 24 Sin Ming Road stall owned by his eldest brother.

Tan Boon Teck learnt how to fry kway teow from his eldest brother.

However, the Sin Ming Road branch is now closed owing to Tan Boon Teck's medical condition.

Tan Boon Teck said he wants to pass on his skills in frying char kway teow to someone else because he was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer in May this year.

For S$10,000, he is willing to teach an apprentice his skills. His offer will raise some money for his cancer treatment.

Interested apprentices can call Cindy Tan, daughter of Tan Boon Kiat, at 9851-3725

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