A couple wakes up in the wee hours to cook Hainanese curry rice in sour, sweet, bitter and spicy notes - the flavours of life. But it is a vanishing cuisine and a poignant facet of Singapore.

Wong Kim Hoh interviews pioneer hawker Pang Teow Chin. Watch the video produced by film-maker Eric Khoo's Zhao Wei Films.

Pick up a copy of The Straits Times to read the full interview in the National Day Special.