Street life
I started coming to Cuppage Plaza for the light. The building is old, a little worn at the edges, with narrow staircases and corridors that smell faintly of charcoal and sake by early evening. But…
I reached Chomp Chomp Food Centre at 20 Kensington Park Road, Serangoon Gardens, Singapore on a Tuesday evening around 7pm, just as the place was beginning to thicken with supper energy. The tables were filling…
I visited Lau Pa Sat Satay Street on a Tuesday around 7pm, just as Boon Tat Street was changing its identity from a busy traffic route in Singapore’s CBD to a lively alfresco dining venue.…
When we talk about izakayas in Singapore, we often reduce them to simple after work drinks spots. We picture loud rooms where tired professionals go to drink cold beer and eat cheap bar snacks. But…
A chef stands behind a trough of white-hot binchotan charcoal. He holds a fan in one hand and carefully turns a row of wooden chicken skewers with the other. He does not rush. He waits…
When I first started photographing food in Singapore, I had a very narrow view of what Japanese dining looked like. I walked right past the smoky, loud, narrow storefronts of local izakayas. I thought they…
Let me tell you about the first time I walked into Fortune Centre with my camera. I expected a standard Singaporean food court experience: loud, chaotic, and heavily focused on the usual meat-heavy local dishes.…
The air inside the first floor of Fortune Centre is thick with the inviting aroma of toasted sesame and rich braised tofu. It’s just past midday, and the narrow corridors along Middle Road buzz quietly…
It is just past one in the afternoon at a busy mall in Tampines. A man in a pressed white shirt stands up from a small wooden table. He picks up his plastic tray. On…
When I first moved my photography workflow to the East Side, I assumed my dining options would be strictly limited to local heritage food. I spent weeks eating Katong laksa and Joo Chiat prawn noodles.…