How Food Makes Merry
Female Singapore|May 2022
Like in the iconic sitcom Friends, our go-to eating spots are also often our favourite social spaces - something that the pandemic has reinforced, what with the regulations on where and how we've been able to gather during the past two years. Following March 29 – the day the cap on the number of vaccinated people allowed to dine in as a group was raised to 10 - we got four creative posses together at their F&B hangouts of choice to chow and chat about how food makes merry.
Keng Yang Shuen
How Food Makes Merry

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WHO (from far left): Photographer/ creative producer Chris Sim, who knows a thing or two about bringing folks together as the co-founder of the party organiser North East Social Club; Ryan Pagdanganan - a creative writing, screen and cultural studies student; Ada Quek, an outreach and communications research assistant in climate science; and data analyst Marcus Tan. This motley crew first bonded over mutual interests in music and can be spotted at all the cool indie gigs you never knew about. WHERE: The basement food court of Katong Shopping Centre (Sim's parents own a printing shop on level two) - home to Katong Mei Wei, a chicken rice stall that's been drawing snaking queues since the '80s. Besides growing up on the popular dish, Sim says the laid back, unpretentious setting is what the group leans towards, whether it's for a mid-day meal or drinks post-gig. ON THE IMPORTANCE OF MEALTIMES: “Sharing a meal with friends provides space to & decompress... I've fond memories of Sisus at BK Eating House on Circular Road in particular - it's another spot that we like to go to for a post-show beer. Its now-defunct mee sua stall was so integral to a night out at (techno joint) Headquarters, says Sim.

Pagdanganan and Tan wear Marni X Uniqlo tops, Uniqlo. Quek wears top and earrings H&M.All other clothes and accessories, subjects' own

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