Food seller Thi Ee Yin, 32, handing over orders of food and drinks to a customer who brought his own carrier bag at the pick-up point for motorists in front of the Batu Lanchang Market’s food court in Penang. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star
THE proverb ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ rings true for the decades-old hawker stalls in the Batu Lanchang Market’s food court in Penang.
Hit badly by an earlier outbreak of Covid-19 cases, the hawkers unsurprisingly suffered a severe drop in business.
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