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WALTER TAY

AGE: 30
WHEEL OF FORTUNE: Walter’s professional life
is the stuff of Korean dramas. The 1.82m-tall,
85kg hunk has held glamourous jobs — he was
a flight attendant who later went into multi-level
marketing, where he “became a millionaire in a
year” and lived the high life driving CARROT
a Mercedes Benz and donning
Rolex watches. “Then one CAKE BOD
project went very wrong Walter’s daily meals
[and my MLM company
closed down]. I had to include liberal portions
sell off everything and of carrot cake. But, of
pay off my debts. It course. “My stall also
was really bad, and sells char kway teow,
I was depressed for so I eat that too ’cos
a year,” he tells us. I’d need to taste the
“But I bounced back sauce,” he says.
with family support; To compensate for
my parents came the greasy chow,
out of retirement to
start a carrot cake he cuts down on
hawker stall called sugar and does
Father & Son with “intense workouts
me. I think it was with weights,
necessary for me calisthenics and
to go through this 10 to 15 reps
[ordeal]. Before of hypertrophy
that, I was so exercises”.
[cocky] that if you
see me, you’d want to
hit me (laughs).”

SHIRTLESS HAWKER OF THE WEEK
These days, besides being a hawker, Walter also runs Korean
cosmetics e-retailer Aresa Beaute. After opening their first stall,
Father & Son, in Bukit Panjang, Walter and his folks set up
another carrot cake stall in Admiralty called Mother & Daughter
run by, yep, his mum and younger sister. “My parents start
preparing food at 4.30am; I’m usually at the stall from 11am
until closing,” he says. Oh, and this hawker
hunk also has fans loitering around his
shop to catch a glimpse of him. “I’ve
seen secondary school girls wait
for two hours to ask me for my
Instagram details (@walkwithwalter),”
he laughs. Dad’s the
way: Walter
and his dad.

Read our review of Father & Son on www.8days.sg.

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