A tradition that was lost but revived - the hawker tradition
Nowadays, we have hawker centers in every neighborhood, providing us with delicious and affordable food everyday. The hawkers manning their stalls wake up in the wee hours in the morning to provide food for the early customers and only pack up when the sky is dark. This shows that the life of hawkers is not easy, and the money that they earn from being hawkers is quite little. This generation of hawkers have been working for very long ever since the 20th century. Now, the generation are more educated and they might view being a hawker as menial work, and might not want to continue the practice of being a hawker. This will inevitably lead to the loss of a tradition, especially when the median age of hawkers now is 60 years old, so they will eventually have to retire soon. However, if there isn't a new batch of hawkers to take over, the hawker culture will eventually die out. But the government has indeed taken a lot of steps to help the hawkers out amidst the pandemic. For example, ...