Going home after living away for more than a decade always feels new and old at the same time. Catching up with old friends at new hip places and going to the same places I’ve been going to for decades with my parents. I still feel displaced, alienated, happy, sad all at once and I […]

There are lots of places to go for crab bee hoon in Singapore and the most popular one Sin Huat Eating house, which has over the decades have become crazy expensive (you’d have to be prepared to fork out at least 150-200SGD per person for a couple of dishes including the hero crab bee hoon). This […]

Tiong Bahru has become a trendy hotspot these days – nothing like the area I visited growing up. My aunt and uncle, both teachers used to live in the neighbourhood and back in the days it was very much a blue collar worker kind of residence, nothing like the hipster vibe it gives out today. […]