Belly Of A Nation is a 2 Part Documentary Series on Hawkers, aired on Channel News Asia (CNA) on 6 & 7 August 2019.

小贩摊又热又脏，创业成本又高，年轻人看不上？
国家环境局看来有意打破这个刻板印象，这回走美女路线，介绍清秀女大学生卖沙爹米粉和叻沙的故事，看她如何在干净通风的小贩中心学艺，踏出创业旅程的第一步。

29岁美女白天当小贩开档卖沙爹米粉，叻沙, 晚上进修商业和房地产经纪课程，为开分店做准备。

Hawkers wanted. No experience needed. Those who are looking to enter the hawker trade can sign up for the Entrepreneurship Programme by Fei Siong Food Management and successful participants could end up running stalls in a new hawker centre coming up in Hougang.

当小贩劳心劳力，抹黑起早，时间又长；书读那么多，干嘛要去吃苦？按照这个逻辑，当小贩的不都是没有读书，或者书读不上的吗？ 偏偏有大专毕业生，考获大学，理工学院文凭，不从事自己的专业，选择当小贩，靠劳力生活，还说有满足感呢！

Mr Ang, 29, with his mother Ling Ke Eng, 58, at his stall in the Ci Yuan hawker centre in Hougang. He is one of the 18 youngsters who graduated from Fei Siong Food Management’s programme last year.

29岁美女大学生当沙爹米粉小贩，环境局网上特写表扬，令她人气爆红，网民纷说要去捧场。

A Facebook post by the National Environment Agency (NEA) on Feb. 16 featured another young Singaporean who endeavours to become a successful new age hawker.

Mothership.sg interviewed Ci Yuan’s hawkers and customers on what they felt about our hawker centre, receiving positive comments about the infrastructure and management.

A desire to preserve Singapore’s hawker traditions and pass down the distinct culinary skills to the next generation has propelled Fei Siong’s Group Managing Director Tan Kim Siong (left) and his team to work together with NTUC’s e2i (Employment and Employability Institute)....

When you enter the new 24-hour hawker centre at Ci Yuan Community Club in Hougang, what catches the eye are the bright red machines situated prominently at each of the 40 stalls. They are self-payment kiosks which allow customers to order and pay for meals.

A career as a hawker is becoming hotter, going by the response that one organisation had to its hawker training programme.