RUMAH

27/05/2025

A Goodbye from RUMAH

RUMAH means home, a shelter, a place where stories gather. It’s always been about more than just a space on the internet. It’s been about finding community, that feeling of belonging, of being seen and heard.

This journey has been long, winding, and full of moments that made this feel like a real home.I hope you’ve found your corner of comfort here, your own rumah,because that’s what matters most. Finding your people, your tribe, your story shared.It’s the experience that shapes us, not just the end.

Thank you for being part of this chapter.

Keep wandering, keep sharing, keep building your community.
Here’s to the stories we’ve shared, and the journeys still ahead.

All the best!

RUMAH
2020-2022
https://rumahkhai.wixsite.com/home

24/11/2023

Due to the horrific war taking place in Gaza, Ashtar Theatre is launching an urgent request to all its friends and theater makers around the world to publicly read or perform The Gaza Monologues on November 29th, 2023; The International Day of Solidarity with the Falastin People - a significant day for those who value justice, equality, and freedom for the Palestinian people.

The Gaza Monologues are testimonies written by ASHTAR youth in 2010, after the first war on the Gaza Strip. Tragically, these Monologues are still accurate today. They are highlighting the horrors, hopes and resilience of the courageous Gazans to a wider audience, bringing out the voices of children and people in Gaza.

Khai and Faizal have gathered 31 friends from the creative industry to read one of the monologues and record themselves, to stand in solidarity.

The recordings will be on .abdullah and Instagram page on Wednesday 29th November 2023. See you there.

28/09/2023

📢 Save The Date for BABYLON
🗓 18-20 October 2023
🔗🎟 https://www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/babylon-quang-kien-van/

The Albany presents BABYLON, a live Dance-Gig-Theatre performance spectacle created by Associate Artist Quang Kien Van .

Expect fearless dance, music, love and timeless romance, with a side dish of feisty polemics.

Featuring four outstanding multi-discipline performers and made using a life-affirming Yes Manifesto, expect fearless dance, music, love and timeless romance, with a side dish of feisty polemics.

Cast:
Yu-Chien Cheng
Laura Lorenzi
Femi Oriogun-Williams
Bianca Fung

Set & Costume Designer Rosalind Noctor

Marketing Officer Ting Ning Wen
Production Manager Leon Smith

Producer Nur Khairiyah Bte Ramli

Photography

13/09/2023

📢 Save The Date
🗓 18-20 October 2023
🌟 The Albany presents BABYLON, a live Dance-Gig-Theatre performance spectacle created by Associate Artist Quang Kien Van

Expect fearless dance, music, love and timeless romance, with a side dish of feisty polemics.

🔗🎟 https://www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/babylon-quang-kien-van/
Cast:
Yu-Chien Cheng
Laura Lorenzi
Femi Oriogun-Williams
Bianca Fung

Set & Costume Designer Rosalind Noctor
Marketing Officer Ting Ning Wen
Production Manager LEON Smith
Producer Nur Khairiyah Bte Ramli

10/09/2023

It's HOT☀️☀️☀️ Introducing cast & crew for October premiere at the Albany

Babylon- a QKV Project

Cast:

Yu-Chien Cheng
Laura Lorenzi
Femi Oriogun-Williams
Bianca Fung

Crew:

set & costume design- Rosalind Noctor
marketing officer- Ting Ning Wen
production manager- Leon Smith
producer- Nur Khairiyah Binte Ramli

The Albany presents BABYLON, a live Dance-Gig-Theatre performance spectacle created by Associate Artist Quang Kien Van. Expect fearless dance, music, love and timeless romance, with a side dish of feisty polemics.

Link to tickets https://www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/babylon-quang-kien-van/

03/08/2023

Here is my series in 7 photos. My name is Khai, I'm a Muslim-Malay Producer. Other then raising money, managing personalities, I also decide what food in the menu I would like to sustain myself and ice cream flavours to delight on.

And then it's back to smiling, flyering, conversations, hustling and then do a show.

Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?)

🗓 Shows 4-13 August 2023
🎟 £15 / £13
📍 Summerhall 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL

Ticket Link
https://shorturl.at/iWZ46

Reflecting on a Muslim-Malay Singaporean Indentity, Faizal passionate solo performance explores what it means to be Malay in Singapore and beyond.

📸 Mohamad Faizal Abdullah
Edinburgh Festival Fringe

29/06/2023

Brown Jaga Brown (slang for Malays looking out for other Malays) is a one-week venue takeover festival at that aims to build an ecosystem to inspire and empower the Malay diaspora in the UK. The festival aims to explore 'what is Malay?’ and celebrate our unique ethnic and cultural identity; shared by people across different regions.

From 24th-29th July, will feature intergenerational workshops, live performances,P. Ramlee film screenings, networking sessions and a communal picnic, all led by creatives from the Malay Diaspora.

Open & Accessible to all communities.

Produced by Khai & Faizal .abdullah

🎟️ Full Lineup To Be Announced
🔗 Programme Link in Bio

02/01/2023

📙 Reading 'The Food of Singapore Malays' does make me feel hungry. Whenever I miss home or Malay food, I'll visit a list of my go-to food places in London.
(📸 above taken by me - Clockwise from top .puteri.london.official, , )

The restaurants below are owned by Malaysians 🇲🇾, Singaporeans 🇸🇬 and Indonesians 🇮🇩 - that makes up some of the Malay Archipelago.

🔹Melur x - Nasi Kandar
White rice combined with an array of distinct curries, sides dishes, and gravies. The selection of curries consists of various blends of vegetables, seafood or meat. I recommend to pair it with Bandung (rose syrup milk)
(📸 from their IG)

🔹 - White Rice with Rendang Daging (beef slow cooked in coconut milk with spices & herbs), and Ayam Goreng Bawang Putih, (garlic fried chicken) paired with Teh 'O', Black Tea with no sugar - You're in heaven.
(📸 from their IG)

🔹 - Go for their BBQ platter for 2 The Satay reminds me of the East Coast Lagoon in Singapore. They also have Tiger Prawns and Chicken Wings.
(📸 taken by me)

🔹 - sells the best Char Kway Teow. A stir fried flat rice noodles with spices, soy sauce, vegetables and meat. Normally you pair it with a fried egg on top, known as mata lembu.
(📸 taken by me)

🔹During lockdown, I discovered Kuali Kak Ani (who is now at and her nasi minyak (ghee rice) with ayam masak merah (red chilli sauce with chicken) is to DIE FOR! She also sells malay kuehs (cakes) like Seri Muka, Ketayap and curry puffs
(📸 taken by me)

🔹Now speaking of puffs, this might not be Malay Food in general, but every Singaporean grew up with Old Chang Kee. It's a staple food when you're in a rush to go to work or school. I always had their sardine curry puffs, so I got way excited when is now selling sardine curry puffs - check them out. (📸 from their IG)

There are SO MANY MORE AMAZING MALAY FOOD IN LONDON, here's more of my favourite. Give them a follow this new year ❤️
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🌟 🎫Also Tickets for Who Took My Malay Away? By Faizal Abdullah at is still available.

https://vaultfestival.com/performances/siapa-yang-bawa-melayu-aku-pergi-who-took-my-malay-away/

01/01/2023

🧨 Happy New Year friends & family. It's been too long! I stayed home during new years eve, building a fort in my studio, made of pillows and blankets and spend the whole day reading Khir Johari's The Food Of Singapore Malays.

📙 The book was named 'Book of The Year' & 'Best Illustrated Non-Fiction' by The Singapore Book Publishers Association, and it has had three print runs!

🎁I bought the book as a new year gift to myself and also part of a research for producing Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?) which by the way is having its full length premiere at

🎫https://vaultfestival.com/performances/siapa-yang-bawa-melayu-aku-pergi-who-took-my-malay-away/

🥘You know I've always been a foodie. I've been called Girl Rempah (Spice Girls) because of my obsessions with Spice Girls and Nasi Padang. While reading this delicious 500+ pages, I somehow resonated with the author, when he said... 'By becoming the Other, far away from home, the inevitable question cropped in the stillness of night: what made me? Increasingly identifying as a Singapore Malay.'

🧳And his entry point is through food. His discoveries on regional trips to discover older foodways. I'm at page 76 now and he has mentioned
◾ The common frustration of every Singaporean Malays abroad, where people mistaking' Malay' for Malaysians
◾ A brief on British colonisation ◾ How 20th Century Singapore was the New York of the Nusantara, and
◾ The rise of music & cinemas at Kampong Gelam... And there are more chapters to go.

I'm having a gastronomic start to the new years. What about you?

26/12/2022

I know have been on a hiatus, especially in 2022 when I had a full time job. But thought I should announce during boxing day I am now a fulltime freelancer, and will be back!

The first production that our founder is producing, fits with RUMAH's ethos - Platforming the under represented voice. The unseen. The unheard. Who Took My Malay Away? Is a personal exploration by .abdullah back in 2020. He then created his learnings into a lecture performance piece.

Not your regular lecture in Uni (i promise you) but the lecture combines movement, music and visuals.

This is a 2 year in the making... And will have its final full length premiere.

So if you're a Singaporean, Whether or not you fit in the acronym (CMIO) Chinese Malay Indian Others, This is a love letter to you.

If you're not Singaporean, but want to know more about the culture, language and maybe food... Here's a visual treat.

See you in the theatre!
Jan 28,29 and Feb 4,5
4 days. 2 weekends.
https://vaultfestival.com/performances/siapa-yang-bawa-melayu-aku-pergi-who-took-my-malay-away/

#2023

19/08/2022

Hello. Hi. It's Khai. Just wanted to come out of the shell for a bit to say Hi. You know, during the pandemic we talked alot about pausing and learning...

Not going to lie, I feel a bit overwhelmed this year. We've forgotten about best practices and kindness.

So I'm going to stay in my shell still, but would love to know what and how RUMAH can serve you (Asian Diapsora Communities) 2023. Tell me, i wanna know👇

02/12/2021

On Nov 27th, RUMAH hosted our last crying party for the year, and we cannot ask for a better send off then having Shiva Raichandani and Dina from The Playful Indian - Greeting Cards & Gifts to facilitate our last one with bollywood dance/movement meditation and some crafts and sharing.

Thank you to all of the creatives we have collaborated with since the start of the year. Thank you for your love, generosity and energy. It's been truly an amazing online experience.

Thank you to the participants who showed up and decide to spend their last Saturday evening online with RUMAH. YOU are the reason why I do what I do. ❤️

WELCOME TO MY CRYING PARTYSAT, 27th November 2021https://www.rumahkhai.com/cryingparty shoutout to Shiva & Dina for hosting this virtual ...