Swee Kee and Ka Soh start next chapter

Singapore

AT Swee Kee Eating House in Amoy Street, the homegrown family restaurant business marking its 80th anniversary this year, there was always a fair chance that customers would get to see a fellow diner being given a rather public dressing down - by a member of the restaurant's wait staff.

The sharp-tongued waitress, who was hired by the founder of Swee Kee along with her mother-in-law shortly after the war, was fondly referred to as Ka Soh (or daughter-in-law in Cantonese) by regular customers, despite her fiery temper.