People who drink it.

Messages we have been sent, things people said at the Saturday door, and photographs they let us use. Quoted as written, first names only, and where they were when they drank it.

Four friends laughing around an outdoor dinner table, glasses of cold drinks in front of them — **Wei Ling’s birthday, Punggol.** Two six-packs, gone before the cake.

“My mother, who has opinions about drinks, said it tastes like the lime juice from the old Toa Payoh stall. That is the highest praise she has.”

Jasmine Toa Payoh, over WhatsApp

A woman in sunglasses and a denim jacket sipping a green drink through a straw in front of a pink wall — **Priya, Tiong Bahru.** Calamansi, on the way to work.

“Not sweet. Finally. Roselle with mutton kurma on Sunday, sorted.”

Hafiz Kallang, at the door

Three hands holding up glasses of pink, orange and pale green drinks with straws — **Three of the five, Saturday door.** Grapefruit, pineapple, calamansi, in that order.

“we bring a six pack to every east coast bbq now and someone always asks what it is. it’s the watermelon one. get the watermelon one”

Cheryl East Coast, over WhatsApp, no capital letters

Four friends at an outdoor café table in the sun with coloured drinks in cups and straws — **Lunch outside Sunbird, Jalan Besar.** Roselle in the plastic cups because the glasses had run out.

Three young women browsing a food stall under the lights of a covered market — **Pasar malam, Geylang Serai.** Someone brought a cooler.

A woman at a restaurant table laughing with her hand over her mouth — **Mei, a table in Katong.** The grapefruit, and a joke we missed.

“The pineapple one saved a very hot afternoon at the climbing gym. Salty in the right way — like a sports drink, except you would actually drink it.”

Ravi Common Ground, Kallang

Two women in running clothes sitting on concrete steps, one drinking from a bottle of orange drink — **After a run, Sports Hub.** Pineapple, straight from the bottle, still cold.

“Ordered on WhatsApp on Thursday, at the door on Saturday, Arif remembered my name. Small company things.”

Ying Serangoon Gardens

Hands clinking glasses of lime drink with mint and ice in low golden light — **A Friday by the Kallang river.** Calamansi over ice, extra limes.

“I bought one because of the name and six because of the grapefruit.”

Marcus at the Saturday door, in July

Friends clinking glasses over a lunch table in bright afternoon sun — **Long lunch, Joo Chiat.** The bottles came back on Monday.

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