Ensconced along the ground floor of Wisma Lim Foo Yong is Improv Bistro. The eatery is incredibly charming – a large, sprawling space with art pieces by Iranian refugee artist Komeil Zarin lining the walls, a cosy corner filled with books, a stage smack in the middle and a curiously whimsical, almost fairytale quality about it.

“It was always a dream to open a small cafe with lots of books and paintings – somewhere where people who love the arts can come and sit down and just have a coffee and discuss things that matter – so that was the idea,” says Keira Ouali, one of the founders of Improv.