A worker at Guan Guan Hai San, one of the dozen-over cockle wholesalers who still exist in Kuala Sepetang, looking at the empty shells and debris that are expelled from a machine that picks out live cockles. — Photos: SAIFUL BAHRI/The Star
LOH Yuen Teik dropped out of school at just 15.
Like most of the menfolk in the coastal town of Kuala Sepetang off Taiping, he became a cockle farmer.
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