These budding Overseas Chinese entrepreneurs and investors started as street merchants, peddlers, hawkers and traders. They generally settled in rural areas, where they subsisted typically as peddlers and hawkers. Those dishwashers, waiters and street stall hawkers are part of the reason. Many of those opened stores and became merchants and hawkers. They included depictions of low-class people such as fraudsters, charlatans, hawkers, prostitutes and musicians. The Indian population rapidly increased, the Indians becoming market gardeners, farmers, hawkers, and traders. Some Malaysian Chinese hawkers are known to make minced pork sambal. Hearst's newspapers compensated their force of newsboys or newspaper hawkers. Like "taho", "balut" is advertised by street hawkers calling out their product. Bakpau is found in Indonesia as a take away food sold by cart street hawkers. Middleton describes an area buzzing with hawkers and processions. Balut is a popular dish sold by hawkers in the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Some hawkers in Malaysia and Singapore, especially in non-halal settings, will add fried pork lard. This concept has totally eliminated street hawkers in Singapore. To distinguish them from other hawkers, he tried playing a tin horn to attract customers.