How Singaporean interior designer Jason Sim, 54, and his wife Haryenny, 40, who hails from the Indonesian city of Bandung, met is a love story for the ages.
In 2012, Jason came across a photo of Haryenny, also known as Yenny, while browsing Facebook. She was a friend of a friend and he thought she looked “not bad”, so he sent her a DM (direct message). They started chatting online and before long, Jason was on a plane to meet Yenny and her family.
What was it that attracted her to him? “I don’t know. I chatted with him because he was a friend’s friend,” Yenny told 8days.sg shyly. “It didn’t occur to me that he could be a scammer.”
“She did tell me that I looked honest and felt I was very sincere. I think it’s fate,” Jason chimed in.
After dating long-distance for six months, they tied the knot in 2013 and Yenny relocated to Singapore. They do not have kids.
The sweet couple recently opened a food stall in an industrial complex in Sin Ming selling popular Indonesian street snacks. Called Indonie, the two-week-old stall offers “hard-to-find treats” like Bandung-style bakso goreng (translated as fried meatball), pisang aroma (fried banana spring roll) and risoles ragout (chicken and vegetable croquette). You will see the couple reimagined as cutesy mascots on the stall’s signboard.