Share a memory of Oven Marvel

Why does this page exist?

Because the public record of Oven Marvel has holes, and some of them can only be filled by people who were there. Nobody has published the year the shop opened, the date it changed its name from Delicious Muffins, what the sign looked like, or what the owners said when they closed. I have listed every gap on what we know and what we do not. If you can fill one, I would love to hear from you.

There are no reader memories on this site yet. I would rather leave this page empty than invent them.

How do I send a memory?

By email, to hello@ovenmarvel.com. There is no form, account or upload button, on purpose: no data collected by a website, just an email you control.

A useful message includes:

1. What you remember. The pie, the queue, the bag, the smell, the price you paid, the day it ran out before you got there.
2. Roughly when. A year is perfect. “When I was working nearby, around 2015” is fine.
3. How you know. Did you eat there often? Once? Did you work in the building?
4. Permission. Say whether I may publish it, and how you would like to be credited: full name, first name, initials, or not at all.

What kinds of memories help most?

What will happen to my email?

I will read it, reply if you would like a reply, and do one of three things with your permission:

• Publish it on a future reader-memories section, marked clearly as reader-supplied, credited the way you asked.
• Use it to check a fact, without quoting you, perhaps changing a “we could not confirm” to a “a reader who worked nearby remembers”.
• Keep it private, if that is what you prefer. Some memories are just nice to have been told.

Reader memories will never be presented as sourced facts. A memory, however vivid, sits in a different box from a dated review.

What will never be published?

• Anything without your permission.
• Personal details about Chef Johnny Ngiam, the family or anyone who worked in the shop, beyond what they themselves have made public.
• Claims about why the shop closed that go beyond what has been reported.
• Photos you did not take yourself.
• Anything that is really an advert for another business.

Are you connected to the shop?

If you are part of the Oven Marvel family, or worked there, thank you for every pie. If you would like anything on this site corrected, changed or removed, please email and say so. Your wishes come first.

A note on privacy

Emails are not shared or sold, and there is no mailing list. The address hello@ovenmarvel.com exists only to receive memories and corrections for this site. Who writes the site, and how, is explained on the about page.