Stepping up to keep traditions alive

Family business: Uan (left) with his father, Uan Cheng Chooi, selling pancakes at their Apom Chooi stall by the road side on Burmah Road.

GEORGE TOWN: While the research paints a grim future for the state’s hawker food scene, a few young people have actually stepped up to preserve the ko cha bi (traditional taste) of Penang.

Among them is 35-year-old Hokkien mee seller Lau Yong Lin, who said that preserving the old taste of Penang was akin to keeping the “George Town identity” alive.