{"id":927669,"date":"2026-10-14T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927669\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:20:10","slug":"philippines-raised-k-pop-star-sandara-park-surprised-to-find-jollibee-on-orchard-road-gets-dinner-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927669\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines-raised K-pop star Sandara Park surprised to find Jollibee on Orchard Road, gets dinner there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean singer and member of K-pop group 2NE1, Sandara Park, sparked a wave of Pinoy Pride on Tuesday (Oct 13) after revealing that she got dinner from the Jollibee outlet at Lucky Plaza on Orchard Road.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Busan, South Korea, the 41-year-old grew up in the Philippines before starting her career in K-pop. Till today, Park remains fluent in Tagalog.<\/p>\n<p>In her post on Tuesday, Park \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com\/entertainment\/singapore-grand-prix-2026-entertainment-highlights-concerts-celebrities-590236\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who was in town for the Singapore Grand Prix<\/a> \u2013 said that she was &#8220;walking around Orchard&#8221; and was &#8220;so surprised&#8221; when she spotted Jollibee.<\/p>\n<p>The Filipino fast-food chain first opened a store in Singapore in 1985, but the outlet eventually closed. Jollibee returned to Singapore in 2013, opening a new store at Lucky Plaza before expanding island-wide.<\/p>\n<p>Park added in her post: &#8220;I said, &#8216;This is going to be my dinner!&#8217; So I went in to order, and my fellow countrymen recognised me even though I was wearing a mask! And we took a group photo together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean singer and member of K-pop group 2NE1, Sandara Park, sparked a wave of Pinoy Pride on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,37911,9975,136],"class_list":["post-927669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-fast-food","tag-k-pop","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}