#so yeah I think it mostly would be ... general cuisines and kinds of dishes I'd like to try than specific food items

[allieebobo]

Hi Allie!! The update was really gooooodddddd! Anw, ive been stalking and reading through the asks & while I’m enjoying those, i don’t think anyone has asked u about urself yet. Or maybe i miss it but I’m interested to know more about the author who wrote 2 of my fave IFs. Just general questions like;

1. which part of SG were you from?

2. Fav food?

3. Fav place to lepak?

4. Pri/sec school (if you were educated in sg)

5. What made you migrated to USA?

6. Where are u currently based in?

7. Are u still a student or a full-fledged career womann

8. One place in sg that will always carry beautiful memories for you, now that u’ve moved abroad.

9. What sparked your interest in writing these IFs?

Hehehe. If some of the questions are abit personal, you don’t have to share ur answers. Have a good day ahead 🤍

Ooh!! Anon, these are great questions hehe!! Sure, we can do a get-to-know-me session!

I will answer a couple, and get back to the rest at some point, OK? If there's a question that I didn't answer that y'all are really curious about, you can send me an ask with the number and I'll get to it sooner rather than later.

(P.S. no, none of them are too personal, I just think it'd take me a gajillion years to reply if I tried to answer them all!)

Got long, so the answers are below the cut!

1. which part of SG were you from?

Redhill/Bukit Merah! There's a moment in Merry Crisis where MC talks about it, and that's directly from my life! West side, best side! If me and my partner were entitled to a subsidized public housing flat (we aren't, for so many reasons including we're queer and she's not Singaporean), I'd absolutely buy a flat in the exact same neighbourhood.

2. Fav food

Wow... I can't really choose one, but if I could cheat and pick a whole cuisine then Peranakan food, hands down. Petai (stinky bean) with ikan bilis is one of my fave dishes—and it reminds me of my grandma. Otherwise, ban mian is a big comfort food for me, and so are red chili oil dumplings. I also love kaya toast with eggs for breakfast. Herbal bak kut teh and teochew fish are things I love but wouldn't eat every day... All of these might show up (the fish already has I guess!) in the game at some point!

For non-Singaporean food, I could eat udon, all kinds of pasta, and som tum all day every day.

3. Fav place to lepak

<Lepak is Singaporean/Malaysian(? I think) slang for like, 'chill' or 'hang', btw.> As you can already tell I added a lot of my own experiences/things I love into Merry Crisis already, so I'm going to have to go with Labrador Park and Sentosa. As a kid my mom would bring me and my brother to the rocky coast in Labrador after school with a box of Sarpino's pizza and we'd play in the water and eat and get really sandy. Sentosa back in the day was less commercial/touristy, and we'd just park in the carpark for $2, and spend the entire Sunday just chilling on the beach (yes, I'm a huge beach person haha), and my dad (not a big beach person) would be napping under a big tree probably wishing his wife weren't such a big beach person because it's been inherited by his kids and now this is how he'll spend his weekends for the rest of his life.

6. Where are you based in? 7. Are u still a student or a full-fledged career woman

Have a full-time job, sadly. I've been working as an urban planner in Singapore for three years now. (Think that answers both questions at the same time.) So yeah, I plan the city. Mostly I make sure future generations have enough housing, even though I'm not entitled to one myself. 🤷‍♀️ I enjoy my work and I think it's fulfilling, but it's also tough and my hours are too long. One day I hope to write full-time but I really don't think it'll pay the bills. Maybe if I live somewhere cheaper than Singapore!

Quite excited to answer 8, 9 as well, but maybe those are for another day?

#author #kinda merry crisis related I guess #mostly because merry crisis is so much drawn from my own experiences #Q&A

[langernameohnebedeutung]

I'm just curious, is there an American you'd ever want to try? I've heard so many good things about German chocolate, I hope to have some one of these days

now, personally, I like to think that Americans would taste just the same as the people I eat around here :)

#(gjhgfj I just wasn't sure whether you meant American -food- in general or sweets/chocolate specifically-) #if food in general then I'd really like to try an authentic southern chili or a real bbq bc what we get here is An Attempt at best #also at the risk of committing more pizza-related anti-Italian hate-crimes on this website this week: #but I'd really like to try a typical New York and a typical Chicago pizza. Just to get an opinion in on that one. #also the chicago pizza looks actually interesting #also I know it's Mexican food but I always really really wanted to try Taco-Bell. :( #but I heard there are some restaurants in other Euro countries now so I imagine it's only a matter of time until we get them. #but generally I think you get a lot more spicy food over there and since I love spicy stuff that would be something I'd definitely enjoy #if you meant sweets specifically I'm not sure I can think of any specifically bc we actually get more and more American candy #plus we have some small English/American shops nearby and they sell American candy so I've tried quite a lot of it. #Oh our local supermarket now has Hershey bars which I really liked so that's one point for American chocolate! #a friend of mine brought me a box rainbow nerds back from his Florida vacation and it was much too sweet for both of us #so I'm gonna give anything in that direction a no #we even now get all kinds of cookie-dough stuff which was something I missed for a long time #hmm...as far as chocolate goes I'd recommend Toblerone. It's Swiss not German but tbh I prefer the Swiss chocolate. #and they're available worldwide AND cheap AND I assume they take their recipe quite seriously. So it should be authentic. #(I just checked and apparently you can get it at Walmart) #if you specifically want to try a German one - I just googled it and apparently Walmart has Ritter Sport. #They have a lot more variety than Toblerone though so that would be trial and error) #so yeah I think it mostly would be ... general cuisines and kinds of dishes I'd like to try than specific food items #nonfandom #personal #Oh Belgian chocolate is also pretty good! I was going to recommend Belgian Fruits de mer (chocolates that look like mussles) #so I just googled it to see if you can easily get them over there #but the wikipedia article specifically mentions that they're very local and quote-unquote: #Copycat products are sold at German discount stores #so I guess that means I've never actually had authentic fruits de mer. BUT! the knock-offs are great.