Rice Media

Established in 2017 by Mark Tan and Julian Wong, Rice Media is a media organization located in Singapore. It positions itself as "Asia's alternative voice," offering insights and commentary on a wide range of subjects, including food history and social issues. As of March 2020, Rice Media has built a following of over 39,000 on Facebook and 7,000 on Instagram.

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After the Vote: Jack Sim Wants a Singapore Where We Sanitise Toilets, Not Critical Voices

2 days ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

Jack Sim (also known as Mr Toilet) has a success story that reminds us that even bathrooms can be battlegrounds for change. The 68-year-old failed his ‘O’ Levels, then went on to make good as a businessman, becoming a self-made millionaire at 29. Jack could have rested on his laurels, but he instead chose to become a philanthropist and social activist.
After the Vote: Shawn Lim on Holding Space for Singapore’s Queer and Neurodivergent Community

2 weeks ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

At the age of 16, Shawn Lim had already been arrested twice. No stranger to detention and canings in school, he was even sent to a boy’s home at one point. Looking back on his tumultuous teen years, Shawn, now 33, theorises that he was acting out because he was “a queer kid in an environment that didn’t feel safe for softness”. Over the years, however, he’s come to realise that we don’t have to fit into boxes others create.
Stefanie Foo on How Singapore Can Address Gen Z's Job Woes

3 weeks ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

When Stefanie Foo was a child, she wanted to be an actor. Today, the 23-year-old is a final-year Communications Management and Sustainability Management student at Singapore Management University (SMU). Like many other young people, she’s already had to make pivotal decisions about her future: What to study, what to aspire towards, which passions to indulge, and which to give up. But as graduation looms and she watches her peers struggle to secure full-time employment, self-doubt lingers.
Lost in Transit: The Wayfinder Who Revamped Singapore’s MRT Station Signs

3 weeks ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

In 2014, Samuel Lim, then a design communications student at LASALLE College of the Arts, noticed something odd on his daily commute. As he stepped onto the Outram Park MRT station platform each morning, he would see harried commuters going up a particular escalator, before coming back down again, clearly lost. “People would make a mistake at the exact spot. I saw it happen with tourists, the elderly, and even kids. Every demographic made the same mistake,” Samuel recalls.
What 'Mission' Did Goh Meng Seng Really Accomplish?

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

GE2025 hasn’t officially kicked off, but campaign rhetoric aimed at splitting Singaporeans along ideological lines is already in full force. It all started, really, on March 3rd, when Goh Meng Seng, leader of the People’s Power Party (PPP), announced PPP would contest Nee Soon GRC to take a “principled stance” against the “LGBTQ agenda”. What LGBTQ agenda?
A Sociologist's Unexpected Lessons From Running a Holland Village Market Stall

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

At first glance, Global Village Snack Shop doesn’t stand out among its neighbours at Holland Village Market & Food Centre. Small details, though, set it apart—the fairy lights casting a warm glow on the storefront, the wall of art prints and New Yorker posters, the eclectic assortment of snacks. The tiny stall—only slightly bigger than an HDB bomb shelter—feels like a supermarket’s exotic food aisle on steroids.
The Malnourished Reality of 'Eat With Your Family Day'

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

“One Friday every quarter, your family gets more of you!” So goes the cheery—albeit slightly dystopian—tagline of the Eat with your Family Day (EWYFD) initiative. Launched in 2003 by the Centre for Fathering (CFF), the initiative has gained momentum over the years, becoming a quarterly tradition held on the last Friday of each school term. The first EWYFD this year falls this week, on March 14th.
Can You Crowdsource Kampung Spirit?

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

In the kampung where his mother grew up in, neighbours would freely loan—or even give— household appliances to each other, social worker Lewis Woo tells me. When old-timers speak of this elusive ‘kampung spirit’, a camaraderie born out of shared poverty and hardships, they speak of a time when nobody locked their doors. Neighbours shared food and minded each other’s kids. If you needed help, your village was there for you.
One Man's Quest To Revive Toddy, the Booze That Built Singapore

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

“They queue up several times at the shops, buy as much as they can, and sell again at twice the price to drinkers that arrive late.”The quote above is an excerpt from a 1956 Straits Times report on gangsters gaming the system at local shops selling toddy—an alcoholic beverage made from fermented palm nectar. It proves two things: (1) Scalpers have always been ruining shit for everyone else, and (2) toddy was once highly in demand here.
Meet Gang Kai, the Singaporean Who Moved to the US to Reach for the Stars at NASA

2 months ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

I was just eight years old when I read a newspaper article about Mars being at its closest distance away from Earth. Young me naively thought that it would be the size of the moon, so I tried to stay up late just to catch a glimpse of it. Sadly, my dad nipped my dream to see the Red Planet in the bud when he made me go to bed. I had school the next day, but I would have stayed up all night if he’d let me. It’s been three decades since then, and now I get paid to look at Mars all day.