A new experience at a low price: One Station
When How Wan Hai arrived in Brunei from Johor, Malaysia in 1979, he was already 30-years-old. He had a Malaysian friend, who suggested that...
From father to son: the stadium burger that’s still around
If swimming was your favourite past-time or sport of choice from the late 1990s, the sight of Pg Patra Pg Hj Othman and his...
The all-coconut recluse in the capital
Pick up trucks, with loading bays full of coconuts, pull over the side of the Britannia House, located next to the capital's defunct theatre,...
The mothers providing an all-natural alternative to skincare
Adrenne Chinn (pictured R) and Patricia Chin (pictured L) are cousins juggling between a full-time job, family, children and as of four years ago,...
‘Never too late to start’: Dapur Yuza
Next year Hjh Yusnani Hj Yussof (main picture R) will turn 60 and retire from a decades long career in the civil service. But...
The Rimba boys banding together to serve ice cream at your doorstep
Some things are best left simple. In Singapore, visiting the friendly uncle peddling an ice cream cart along Orchard Road is almost a pastime...
Nothing but fruit: Vanessa’s Jams
When I walked in their designated jam-making kitchen, an extension room segregated from the house, I was asked to put on a plastic mouth...
The self-discipline that drives the Taurean brand
This year marks a decade that Taurean Cafe have been running at the Arch, and almost 20 years since they first opened in Kiulap serving colourful mocktails...
Flipping with flair to make ends meet: Uncle J’s Grill & Sandwiches
Selling burgers made in the kitchen of his family’s home was never the dream of Azizi Fakhri Noor Azalie, owner of Uncle J’s Grill...
Capturing moments house to house: HD Studio
On the morning of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Abdul Hafiz Jawawi and his wife (pictured main) rise early to greet their parents and grandmother in...
