Singaporeans are generally a fickle lot when it comes to dining and night life. Unsurprisingly, restaurants, cafes and night joints come and go with regular frequency. But tucked in a corner of the linkway between Millenia Walk and Marina Square is the venerable Music Dreamer Live! Cafe, which had been in existence even when Jeremiah was in Secondary School. It is a place where fledging local Chinese bands could perform, where friends could have a good time without burning the pocket, and a first date place for many who went to SAP schools.
Last Friday, when Jeremiah and his mates were weighing where to go for post-dinner drinks in the Marina Square area. The list narrowed down to Music Dreamer and Paulaner Brauhaus. Would they go for German beer and chill out in a nicely furnished restaurant/pub but with a somewhat pretentious crowd (that place has its fair share of SPGs)? Or they would head to a simpler place, with local bands brandishing Mandarin and Hokkien hits, freuqented only by heartlanders, serving no alocohol and only Asian tea/coffee drinks but in the process support the local music industry too?
Well, it was really a no-contest, for Jeremiah and his mates are 100% heartlanders at heart. And it is really heartlander joints like Music Dreamer that make up Singapore's cultural identity and heritage, not ersatz European joints.
Heartlands rulez. Majulah Singapura.
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