The Flow Fest · Dhaka
Speed Friending — meet your people
Every conversation is a new connection. Walk in and find your tribe — short, timed chats that rotate around the room, with prompt cards to keep things moving and platonic chemistry in mind.
Connection, not small talk for its own sake
Inspired by speed dating, Speed Friending keeps the same mechanic — a bell, a shuffle, timed one-on-one seats — but the goal is friendship. In a city where going out often means dinner or a movie, and old friends have scattered abroad, these evenings are a deliberate way to meet strangers who might become your people.
Flow Fest hosts sessions at Hiroshi Ramen in Gulshan: warm light, city views, and tables set for real conversation.
How the evening runs
Organisers explain the format when everyone arrives. You will not know who sits across from you until each shuffle — part of the fun, and part of the point.
Icebreaker card
Before the first bell, you get a short questionnaire — the real opener before the Dhaka starter pack kicks in.
Five-minute rounds
Four rounds of five minutes each. Enough for where you studied and what you do; sometimes enough for a shared injury story.
Shuffle on the bell
When the bell rings, everyone rotates. New seat, new stranger, fresh five minutes.
Ten-minute finale
The last round runs longer — ten minutes to go deeper with whoever you land across from.
Questions on the table
Prompt cards steer the chat away from pure résumé mode. Six questions in — dream trips, birthday gifts, one wish — and you often know more about a stranger than half your cousins.
Sample prompts from a recent session (featured in The Daily Star).
- 01What would you do with a million dollars?
- 02Dream travel destination?
- 03Favourite video game?
- 04Best birthday gift you have ever received?
- 05One food you would eat for the rest of your life?
- 06One wish.
From the room
Real evenings at Hiroshi Ramen — pairs, prompts, and the occasional debate about AI versus polar ice caps.
“In a Dhaka full of absent friends, it will do more than enough.”
Zawad Arif Arian wrote about signing up out of curiosity — and leaving with new Instagram connections and a little hope — after Flow Fest's Speed Friending at Hiroshi Ramen.
Read the Daily Star feature
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