TABLE THERAPY Jane’s setup
“Since the lockdown started and the kids can’t go out, I decided to make Sunday lunches extra special for my family. I started buying tablecloths and a variety of plates, cutlery, and glasses, so they will feel like we had lunch out like we always did pre-Covid-19,” says mom of three and
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Jane Kingsu-Cheng. Jane’s social media feed is the stuff of aesthetic IG dreams, blooming flowers spilling over her table, with beautiful plates in elegant patterns that sometimes belie the fastfood on it. On one post, she writes, “There are days I’m just too busy or tired to whip up yummy dishes for the fam bam, and last night was one of those days.” Chinese takeout food is lovingly rearranged in her blue-and-white plates, with her table covered in delicate doilies lace.