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Lifestyle PUBLISHED ONOctober 20, 2024 4:48 AMByDrima ChakrabortyWe've seen many beloved eateries shutter as age and health issues catch up with their owners.Worried that local hawker culture could disappear in a few years, Hong Jifeng (transliteration) decided to test out a novel solution.Called Wok A.I., his stall is located at Margaret Drive Hawker Centre and the noodles are fried with the help of two machines.Jifeng, who'd developed his own recipe, had quit his full-time job as an engineer a year ago to set up the Hokkien mee stall."I decided that if no one wants to do this job, I have to rely on machinery and try it out to see if it works," the 53-year-old said in an interview with 8World.With the industry known to be tough and people being reluctant to join it, Jifeng believes that the wok can be replaced with technology...