Ah Xin started working in the provision shop to help her parents as a sprightly 10-year-old. Fifty years down the road today, she still bubbles with the good-natured charm of her childhood, supplying a colourful diversity of dried goods in her humble little space: dried red chilli, dried fish, dried mushrooms, dried chrysanthemum flowers, dried tofu… you get the dry idea!

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