The Indigenization and Hybridization of Food Cultures in Singapore

• Main Author: Lim, Tai Wei (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Ethnology-Asia.; Ethnicity.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Anthropology.; Asian Culture.; Ethnicity Studies.; Migration.

This pivot considers the use of porcelain vessels within multi-dialect cultural spaces in the consumption of cooked food in Singapore. In a place of ubiquitous hawker centres and kopitiams (coffee shops), the potteries used to serve hawker foods have a strong presence in the culinary culture of Sing...