On the hit HBO series Entourage, fictional movie star Vinnie Chase and his posse often head out to hip West Hollywood spot, Urth Caffe, lounging on its patio and picking up pretty starlets.
So it is perhaps a fitting venue for a meeting with Singaporean pop singer Sun Ho, who arrives at the cafe early one evening surrounded by her own personal entourage of four - well, five if you count her young son.
After all, Ho has an image to maintain: a multi-platinum-selling Mandarin-language singer in her native Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia, Ho is hovering on the periphery of the big time, success in the US.
The singer moved to Los Angeles 18 months ago, after spending a year in New York working with Wyclef Jean on her upcoming album, Cause a Ruckus, which will be her first all-English release. After installing herself and her clan in a sprawling mansion near the boho-chic area of Silverlake, she set to work putting the finishing touches on the album, whose first single Fancy Free, a peppy pop tune, dropped on September 14.
'A lot of music people and producers from New York and Miami are moving to LA,' she says. 'I realised it would be easier if I were here too.'
Even in glamour-saturated Los Angeles, heads turn when Ho walks into the cafe. Her size zero frame is encased in a pair of black-and-white striped Alice + Olivia skinny pants and a ruffled Karen Millen top. As she sips a blended drink with her creative director Mark Kwan, the rest of the group hang back, playing with her four-year old son Dayan. (Ho's husband, Kong Hee, shuttles between Los Angeles and Singapore, where he is a volunteer pastor at the City Harvest Church.)