Ian wasn’t so lucky on his second visit to Bendemeer Shopping Mall. All the women he approached had different reasons to turn him down.
“I’m not free,” said one woman while another shot back: “My house is dirty.”
Another even straight up told Ian to “stop filming [her]” before turning away from the camera.
“I’ve barely been rejected in my life. I’m afraid of getting rejected again… that will make me feel embarrassed,” lamented Ian.
Unfortunately, that was what happened.
Basically, he’d approached more than 10 women that day, but did not get a single “yes”.
In an interview with Chinese media zaobao.sg, Ian explained that he decided to start this series after getting inspiration from Chinese reality shows Let’s Eat Dinner Together (2016), Darling, Mealtime (2019) and Amazing Dinner (2020), as well as Malaysian series A Challenge To Visit 100 Mums’ Houses For A Meal.
Before filming, Ian believed he wouldn’t have any issues finding people to cook for him.
“I thought it was going to be very easy. If an artiste wants to go to someone’s house for a meal, they would probably ‘give face’ right?” he reasoned.
Reality, it seems, turned out to be really humbling.
“In the end, I was rejected more than 10 times. I even wanted to give up at some point,” he said.