Sheryl & Collette
@inapicklesupperclub
For Sheryl & Collette, home is less a place than a person. After years of crossing paths, long-distance FaceTime calls, and a brief flirtation with building a life in Berlin, they’ve built a life in Singapore and moved into a home of their own. On weekends, that home occasionally opens up as In A Pickle Supper Club, where their love for hosting, cooking, and Peranakan heritage all comes together. In a city where queer domesticity is often quietly carved out, we celebrate their space: intimate, generous, and filled with the warmth of a life consciously made together.
Collette: “Sheryl added me on Instagram back in 2018 when we were both just hi-bye friends who occasionally crossed paths at gyms and cafés. In 2023, we were formally introduced and went on our first date after we both found ourselves single. It felt like the right person at the wrong place, because Sheryl was living in Berlin at the time. A lot of our early relationship was long distance and we briefly entertained the idea of moving our lives to Berlin, but in 2025 Sheryl moved back and we moved in together.”
Sheryl: “We started In A Pickle Supper Club because we loved hosting and cooking for friends and we had all this balcony space. We thought it’d be a really fun side-hustle. Collette has this amazing kueh pie tee recipe passed down from her Peranakan grandmother and she’s got good taste buds so she’s basically my taste-tester.”
C: “We felt it was important to keep the practice alive. It’s a small way of honouring Peranakan heritage while bringing back a sense of nostalgia for diners who grew up eating Kueh Pie Tee with the traditional bang kuang (radish) filling and belacan. I used to complain about the heat and dizziness when helping my grandma make Kueh Pie Tee for Chinese New Year as a child, so I’m pretty sure she’d be so proud of how far I’ve come haha!”
“Bits of supper club prep happen beyond Friday and Saturday: Kueh Pie Tee shells get made at the balcony on Tuesdays, sauce prep on Wednesdays, and grocery runs on Thursdays. When Friday comes around, movement in the kitchen and balcony are in full swing: the electric grill is fired, all stoves are occupied and the ambience is set with lighting, incense sticks and music… all ready to receive our guests. Clean up happens at 10pm after every dinner, and the BIG cleanup on Sunday mornings — the perfect reset for the new week.”
“We’re almost chalk and cheese in many ways, but moving in together felt as though we had already been cohabiting all along. There was no friction and everything that was different about us ended up being so complementary and so easy.”
“It’s usually a collective decision of what fits our home aesthetic when it comes to furnishing our home — raw yet edgy, playful yet grown up, or industrial with a pop of colour. Though there was no approval process when Sheryl decided to collect a slew of vintage glass cups and milk cups, we had to install a special rack to display them.”
“We’re so proud of our coffee table, which costs all of $10. A thrifted tempered glass (free, from Carousell) is held up by four cinder blocks ($2.50 each). Cheap and good!”
“We also love collecting little figurines from our travels, each with its own story and memory attached to it. Two plywood crates we built together house a book nook and our favourite vinyls — the things that inspire us and make home feel a little more like us.”
“A tiny home means that every part of the house is pretty much visible by our guests. Especially when they’re excited to play with our cats, Charlie and Morrie, who they often find chilling in our bedroom. Luckily for us otherwise, most of the work is done outside of our bedroom, so when we retreat back it really feels like it’s just the two of us winding down, be it a day of spending time with our friends or hosting 28340823 people.”
S: “Collette means home to me — wherever she goes, I go. Wherever she is, home is.”
C: “It sounds like I’m copying Sheryl, but Sheryl truly is home to me too. We could be anywhere in the world and I’d still feel safe and completely at ease with her around.”
“The only thing I’d add is that while home is ultimately a feeling for us, there’s something incredibly special about building a space together that reflects and strengthens that feeling. After a long day at work, there’s nothing more comforting than coming back to a home we’ve co-created.”
