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He does not wear a designer suit and tie to work. Nor does the owner of chicken rice chain Boon Tong Kee go to work in a chauffeur-driven car.
When TNP met Mr Thian Boon Hua at his flagship Balestier Road restaurant, he was dressed simply in a white round-neck T-shirt and shorts and wore open-toed sandals with white socks.
And so it came as no surprise when Mr Thian, whose restaurants took $20 million in revenue last year, told us he lives in a five-room HDB flat and drives a Toyota Camry.
The 60-year-old’s humility comes from his tough past.
Read his story in The New Paper on Wednesday (Oct 30).
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30-10-2013, 02:00 PM
Sinkie man took $20 million in revenue last year from selling chicken rice
