Over the past decade, much of Singapore’s dining scene has been defined by Instagram. Not only in the sense of the camera eating first, but in the intriguing way that micro-communities have formed around the act of dining in the city’s hottest eateries. Through Instagram, middle-aged foodies have met and formed tight-knit friend groups who migrate, like hungry nomads, from eatery to new eatery, in search of ripe pastures.
If one were to plot members of these ravenous groups in a Venn diagram, the data sets would show a particular name appearing in the intersecting circles. Chan Kwai Sum—or as he is often known by his Instagram handle—is arguably the city’s most ardent, sociable foodie. Scroll through your feeds and there he is at supper with chefs such as Labyrinth’s Han Li Guang and Euphoria’s Jason Tan. Here he is at Dick Lee’s birthday party, at Lee’s performance in Tokyo, at actress Michelle Chong’s birthday dinner, eating his way through Ipoh with
