This busy painting, choc-a-bloc with patterns, textures and colours delightfully expresses the strong mix of tastes described in its title. Viewed from a height at an angle, it has the feeling of a collage. Thickly painted gold-coloured Chinese calligraphy shines against the wave pattern of the restaurant logo on a dark patterned tabletop given further texture with cut-out foliar motifs, hovering above peranakan tiled pattern of the floor. On top of the table, kopitiam and food-court goers will recognise the matching black plastic bowl, spoon and chopsticks set for soup noodles, the little white plastic dish for chillies, the plastic “glass” for teh ais, the cardboard tray for Western-style sandwiches.

Sindy’s oil painting focuses on Malaysia’s “rich gastronomy”, and it shows how we are spoilt for choice when it comes to deciding what to eat for lunch on an everyday basis. The flavours, smells and décor on offer may come from local or Western-style traditions, sometimes clashing, sometimes complementing, “exposing what is in between the opposite and what is also a value of our daily life in terms of the likeness of Malaysians food craving”.