If Magdelene had a dollar for every time her name is misspelled as Magdalene, she would be the youngest millionaire-in-the-making (YMITM). The self-proclaimed hawker buff believes in simple and sinful hawker food, and has nurtured a mild distaste for some pretentious and overpriced café food. When she’s not taking a nap with her fluffy golden retriever toy, you can spot her roaming the island in search of the juiciest orh luah [oyster omelette] worth choking her arteries. Magdelene loves going on local escapades to slip out of the inexorable food coma and burn off the excess calories. The Chinatown area is the YMITM’s choice lair to soak and laze like an old prune in the hodgepodge of old world charm and quirky hole-in-the-wall establishments. To fund her ceaseless appetite for good food, she marries both her first loves – food and writing – in her double weekend identities as a waitress and a creative writing teacher to unsuspecting kiddos.