Not My Mother's Baking

It was such a light-hearted movie tackling important issues on interracial marriage/relationships in Singapore. One that many perhaps might deter from engaging a conversation with each other: the inner prejudicial and often, misunderstood classification that our society very much face in the community at large. The idealogy could perhaps passed on to generation and one might wonder, when will the stigma ends? Do we want our young Singaporeans to inherit a stigmatizing belief?

This movie higlighted it in a humourous manner with alot of reflection for their viewers. I believed Singapore is evolving and so does our local storytellers. We should be brave to lend a voice to issues that matters most. There is simply no room to whether it is a taboo topic to talk about. Singapore has changed and now, creating many platforms for several others to raise concerns regarding racial equality, interfaith, intrafaith and many other identity concerns for us as Singaporeans. Thus, the filmmakers would love you to reflect upon what is the meaning of racial equality and how do we practice it ?

Today we finally overcame our cinema COVID fears because we wanted to catch this little local production called Not My Mother's Baking. While the movie casts many fresh new faces, the strong storyline and script got me laughing and crying along for 2 hours! It centers around the love journey of the daughter of a Muslim celebrity baker and son of a Chinese roast pork seller. All the bias, fears and conversations of other that inter-racial couples need to navigate w each other, with their families and even within themselves... But yet the heart knows when it has met its mate, regardless of how wide and insurmountable the gap may be, or how impossible that love may seem. Kudos to Remi and Ho Pak Kin for writing such authentic dialogues into a beautifully accessible script that keeps you watching just because you want to watch the almost musical like finale of the wedding.

Wishing you An Advance Eid Mubarak And Selamat Hari Raya Maaf Zahir Dan Batin

Enjoy this festive seasons!

Mr Keng (Kyiv)

Sends Regards to casts of Not's my Mother's Baking.

This film was a fun to watch film as it covered many issues...mother/daughter relationship, boy/girl, friendships , different race relationships etc. It covered a lot over 2 hours. Was very engaging and moved at a fast pace to keep the audience interested. Highly recommend. The only shortfall was that the relationship between Sarah and Edwin did not go into much depth. Before we knew it they were getting married.. Could have shown them on a few dates at least. It was also nice to see Singapore featured to give an international audience an idea of Singapore. This film will appeal to cities that are multi cultural in nature highlighting the challenges that an interfaith relationship can face.

At first, I found the title a tad weird but I am glad I gave it a chance. Twice actually. Experienced a rollercoaster of emotions throughout the whole course of the movie. Loved the comedy scenes and one particular sad scene stood out and hit me to my core. The movie bravely and successfully manages to tease out the mostly taboo and sensitive concepts of interracial & interreligious relationships. I really love how it portrays the multicultural, average Singaporean lives, rather than the one-dimensional, overly exaggerated and supposedly rich citizens. Kudos cast and crew! I hope this will arouse the local film industry to begin exploring and documenting the real Singapore.