Egg tarts and wife biscuits: Hong Kong pastry and snack shops here draw the crowds

Joy Luck Teahouse at Ion Orchard. ST PHOTO: WONG AH YOKE
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SINGAPORE - Day and night, two perennially long queues snake around basement level four of Ion Orchard, at the open space under the escalators.

They do not appear to lead anywhere. The only clue lies in two signs at the head of the lines. One reads Hang Heung and the other, Joy Luck Teahouse.

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