Money-making career: Traditional Kuay Chap, selling for more than 44 years

Trang, A 74-year-old grandmother has been selling traditional Kuay Chap for over 44 years. Her secret is simmering pork bone broth for over 6 hours to get a rich soup that doesn't need any additional seasoning. She stops selling every Buddhist holy day and public holidays. She sells for 4 hours a day and sells out, making a profit of over 3,000 baht per day. The atmosphere of the old-style Kuay Chap shop, which belongs to Grandma Somjit or Ms. Mui, aged 74, located on Tha Bandai Road, Yan Ta Khao Subdistrict, Yan Ta Khao District, Trang Province. Grandma Somjit has been selling Kuay Chap since she was 30 years old. She is the only one and has no branches. The secret to its deliciousness is the use of large pork bones, stewed with herbs and spices for more than 6 hours to create a sweet and well-rounded soup. As for the organs, including the liver, heart, intestines, stomach, and blood, they are cleaned several times until there is no fishy smell before being stewed with Chinese herbs for 5 hours until they are soft and tender without any additional seasoning. Each bowl is 50 baht, sold from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. It only takes 3-4 hours to sell out, with at least 200 bowls sold per day, generating more than 10,000 baht in income per day. After deducting expenses, there is still a profit of more than 3,000 baht. However, Grandma Somjit stops selling every Buddhist holy day because she is observing the precepts and does not want to sell or trade meat, and she also stops on public holidays. Grandma Somjit said that she has been selling Kuay Chap since she was 30 years old. She is now 74 years old. She only stops on Buddhist holy days and public holidays because there are no branches. The price is 50-60 baht because the cost of everything has increased. In the past, the price of garnished vegetables was 10 baht per kilogram, but now it has increased to 100 baht per kilogram. When customers come in, she wants them to eat until they are full. A little profit is okay. She focuses on large quantities, using more than 10 kilograms of noodles per day, just enough to make them healthy. In the afternoon, most people have already gone to work. She is originally from Bangkok and accidentally came here in 1988. She got married and has one child. Now she is a full-fledged Yan Ta Khao person. Source: Thai News Agency