Home-based businesses that flourished amid Covid-19 pandemic expand their reach

The Chua siblings at the newly-opened shop, CAI Eats, a ngoh hiang business in Jasmine Road. ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
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SINGAPORE - As Singapore came to grips with the Covid-19 pandemic last year, and people hunkered down at home during the circuit breaker period, home-based food businesses flourished like mushrooms after rain.

A year on - many of these businesses started in April or May last year - a few of the entrepreneurs are ready to take things up a notch.

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