The couple has considered hiring help. “Yes, but so far they’re not able to stay long due to the hot atmosphere,” Tan said. Hence, they’ve partnered with their friend, who is a bakery factory owner. He helps produce some items like their Butter Cake (S$4.80).
“But for my husband’s Chewy Brownie and New York Cheesecake, when we tried to manufacture it in our friend’s factory, it didn’t taste the same,” Tan explained. “Anyone who tries to bake it also can’t top his brownies – they’re truly one-of-a-kind.”
WIFE FACED MISCARRIAGES, CANCER AND SUSPECTED SARS
Tan herself is no stranger to adversity, having survived cervical cancer, ovarian cysts, and what was suspected to be SARS during a period living in China when her husband was posted overseas as an engineer – experiences she described as “full of miracles”.
In her thirties, Tan faced multiple miscarriages followed by a cervical cancer diagnosis requiring surgery. Complications escalated when cysts spread to her ovaries. “One morning I was in pain and went back to the hospital,” she recalled.
By afternoon, she was rushed into emergency surgery where doctors discovered both ovarian cysts and her appendix had burst simultaneously. “The doctor told me if he had operated any later, I would’ve gone,” Tan said matter-of-factly.
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