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200 He won a $1 million lottery, then quit his cushy insurance job to open a Cantonese barbequed pork stall. Trading a corporate office for a hot kitchen was harder than he thought.

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Aditi Bharade @ Business Insider · 04/17/2025 20:18 EDT

He won a $1 million lottery, then quit his cushy insurance job to open a Cantonese barbequed pork stall. Trading a corporate office for a hot kitchen was harder than he thought.

Eight years after starting his hawker stall, 37-year-old Ivan Leong is rethinking his choice of laboring behind a hot oven and working 11-hour days.

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