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 Singaporeans. The book looks at the relationship between those utensils, the food/drinks that are served as well as the symbolic, historical, socio-cultural and socioeconomic implications o...
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Part I.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Food Vessels: A Brief Historical Survey of Ceramics Use for Food Consumption in Singapore’s Hawker Centres and Coffee Shops (
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Om författaren
Tai Wei Lim is a Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and a Senior Research Fellow adj. at the National University of Singapore (NUS)...