When Jetstar Asia announced it would be shutting down last year, Kalvin Ng found himself at a crossroads. The youthful-looking 40-year-old with close to a decade of experience as an air steward, had rejoined the airline less than a year earlier before it all came to a grinding halt.
Instead of returning to the skies, Kalvin decided to pivot to the hawker trade. He set up OnlyMee last November, an Ipoh hor fun and curry mee stall located in an industrial coffeeshop in Ubi, selling a lean selection of noodles inspired by his family’s hawker business in Ipoh, Malaysia.
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