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Lunch with Sumiko

Live every day happily, says Chew Chor Meng, whose kopitiam in Hougang draws the crowds

The actor, who has Kennedy’s disease, recently opened Tam Chiak Kopitiam with three partners. He tells executive editor Sumiko Tan that his condition has deteriorated, but he counts his blessings.

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Before the Covid-19 pandemic, actor Chew Chor Meng would swim for exercise.

Because

he has Kennedy’s disease

, an incurable neuromuscular disorder that causes progressive weakening and wasting of the muscles, he had to enter and get out of the pool with care.

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