Eslite

Many may remember CzipLee as the local stationery store that has withstood the test of time—and fire. When we last spoke with the business back in 2019, executive directors and brothers Alvin and Jason Chen had opened up about the 2016…

10.48AM. I am sitting in a nice, softly-lit cove somewhere in the middle of the 70,000 sq ft Eslite Spectrum at The Starhill. (I later find out this area is called the Arched City, distinguishable by a 60-metre-long wall of red bricks and…

People don’t go to bookstores just to buy books anymore. That’s not a novel revelation—pun intended—but it’s definitely one that has become evident especially in a post-pandemic world, where more people have come to realise the ease of…