AFTER an enforced hiatus since March last year, hawker Ong Choon Chiang will resume dishing up his famous crispy chicken cutlets and butter-soaked French fries from Sunday.
The 65-year-old has been operating No. 1 Western Food at the Tanglin Halt Food Centre since it opened in 1981. But he and the other stallholders at the centre along Commonwealth Drive had to take a break when it was closed 10 months ago for a major facelift under the National Environment Agency's Hawker Centres Upgrading Programme.
Hawkers were allowed to resume business from yesterday, but only around a quarter of the 40 stalls - such as Malay food stall Alimah's Kitchen - were open. The rest will resume over the next few weeks.
Mr Ong had planned to open for business yesterday but his supplier delivered the wrong refrigerator - one meant for vegetables instead of meat.
'Many customers have been calling to ask when I'll open again, and I also can't wait to start,' he said after proudly showing a laminated Jan 23, 2000 Sunday Times review of his stall.
The hawker centre's renovation works cost $2.4 million and included upgrading of toilets, new floor and wall tiles, re-roofing and improvements to lighting.
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