Peranakan culture in Singapore is something that most Singaporeans will know a thing or two about, whether it’s Ayam Buah Keluak, Sarong Kebaya or through the Mandarin soap opera Little Nyonya. The culture is widely celebrated, admired and even endorsed by the state as a beautiful rojak of cultures of different ethnicities in Singapore.

However, there’s a less about talked side of the community: the conversion of most Peranakans to Catholicism. In this episode, we are joined by artist Jee Chan as they delve into their own family’s negotiation with the tug of Peranakan traditions of ancestral worship and their Catholic faith. Jee uncovers a banal and often overlooked side of the Peranakan community: the dynamics between tradition, family and faith. For a culture that has been deemed a “national heritage”, we see how this heritage is not static but is instead still evolving, or rather, rojakifying, with Peranakans negotiating different pushes and pulls of various societal forces in the present.