He was hungry after his night shift and wanted to eat some fries.
After leaving a pan of oil to heat on the stove the man, who wanted to be known only as Mr Ali, stepped out of the kitchen and went to the living room to rest.
The civil servant in his mid 20s dozed off and the next thing he knew, his stove was on fire.
After his attempts to put out the growing fire failed, Mr Ali and his family fled the Bukit Batok HDB flat.
Seconds later, they heard what sounded like a gas cylinder exploding.
The fire happened just before 11.20am yesterday at Block 350, Bukit Batok Street 32.
Twenty-seven other residents living on the first to fourth floors of the block were also evacuated.
A man in his 20s was found with minor burn injuries but declined to be taken to hospital, said a spokesman for the Singapore Civil Defence Force.
Source: www.tnp.sg
