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Mr Wan Kok Weng, 73, leads fellow seniors at Ren Ci @ Woodlands to bake a raisin cake during a cooking session on June 28.

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Mr Wan Kok Weng, 73, leads fellow seniors at Ren Ci @ Woodlands in whipping up a raisin cake during a baking session on June 28.

ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI

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SINGAPORE – The customers have dried up and the shutters drawn down, but 85-year-old Madam Beh Ah Moy’s stove is still warm as ever. 

These days, she cooks not for the queues of loyal patrons who flock to her hawker stall in Bedok Avenue 4, but for the 40 or so seniors who congregate at Thye Hua Kwan Active Ageing Centre at 90 Pipit Road every Thursday. 

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