Singapore's classic 1970s HDB lift, Nanyang coffee roasting machine now added to National Collection


Dominic Chua, managing director of Ho Tit Coffee Powder Factory, with his two industrial-sized coffee roasting machines on April 23. - ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): In 1988, about three years after Dominic Chua had started working at Ho Tit Coffee Powder Factory, his father Chua Tock Hoon – the shop’s founder – died following a traffic accident that left him in a coma for 11 weeks.

The suddenness of his dad’s passing meant the business’ genesis was forgotten forever.

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