These owners have delayed retirement to continue cooking Singaporean food

The Old Raffles Place's Alan and Carol Han can't stop cooking “carrot cake” and char kway teow – and Melbourne doesn't want them to stop.

You'll find two kinds of char kway teow at this Melbourne institution. Source: Audrey Bourget

 

When Alan and Carol Han opened The Old Raffles Place in Collingwood in 2000, it was supposed to be a small cafe, their retirement project.

“In that industry, when you’re approaching 60, people see that as retirement age, but we wanted to keep working so we decided to start a little breakfast cafe and it snowballed into something unexpected,” says Carol.

Read the full article in English here.