Gilbert serves up a Taiwanese speciality chicken dish called tong zai ji, which translates literally as 'chicken in a bucket', at his stall in 118 Depot Lane., which translates literally as 'chicken in a bucket', at his stall in 118 Depot Lane, nestled within an industrial estate.Instead, an entire 1.6kg kampung chicken is placed in a metal barrel and slow-roasted over a charcoal fire, to which sugar cane is thrown in.
As he had to entertain clients regularly for work, his diet was not the healthiest and consisted of lots of seafood, pork lard and other high-caloric foods, said Gilbert, who's also a Buddhist. "Tasting the marinade, controlling the fire, smelling the aroma are all the other ways," he told Shin Min.Due to limited manpower, he is only able to take 10 to 20 orders for his Taiwanese Chicken in the Bucket on weekdays from Monday to Thursday, with the number ramped up over the weekends.According to the Chinese evening daily, Gilbert had come out of semi-retirement just to become a hawker.
According to Shin Min and 8days, he had also opened a chain of 11 optical stores in Malaysia with his wife and dabbled in F&B businesses before the pandemic. He closed the eateries and moved back to Singapore in 2021.
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