'This shop is like my child': Old-school bakery in Bedok sold for $4 million after a 3-year search for successor

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As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. After almost four decades, the owner of Borobudur Snacks Shop at 537 Bedok North Street 3 has decided to retire, citing old age and occupational injuries. The owner, a 74-year-old man surnamed Zheng, told Shin Min Daily News that he's selling his entire business — which includes the...

After almost four decades, the owner of Borobudur Snacks Shop at 537 Bedok North Street 3 has decided to retire, citing old age and occupational injuries.

Borobudur Snacks Shop was founded in the 1980s by a Chinese Indonesian who was living in Singapore. Zheng became business partners with the founder in 1983, and has been running the business on his own since the founder passed away."At our peak, we could produce nearly 1,000 cakes a day, supply at least 10 well-known hotels and deliver to many other retail shops across Singapore," he told the Chinese evening daily.

He also experimented with different-flavoured kueh lapis cakes, including palm sugar, mung bean and durian to offer customers more variety. After searching for three years, Zheng has finally revealed found a buyer fits the bill — a couple who met Zheng through a middle man.

 

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