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Last charcoal shop in Serangoon Road to shut after property is sold for $5.28m
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For almost a century, charcoal seller Tan Hiap Hong has occupied a shophouse on Serangoon Road. It is now the last of its kind and soon to go after the shophouse was recently sold for $5.28 million.
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SINGAPORE - Time seems to stand still the moment you step into Tan Hiap Hong, the only charcoal shop to have survived for close to a century in Singapore.
Located at the junction of Serangoon Road and Balestier Road, the shop, with its inconspicuous shopfront, can easily be missed.
