Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
1-2023
Abstract
Hawker foods characterize urban Asia, with similarities and differences across cities that forge both cultural commonalities and distinctions. From the itinerant to the fixed location, from the temporary sites to the purposebuilt, hawker foods are served in informal settings, with varying degrees of tradition and innovation, hygiene and squalidness, local authenticity and globalized influence. In the side-streets of Beijing where local delicacies such as scorpion are served, to the abundant food cart vendors on Bangkok streets, to the warung (small, typically family-owned eateries) in Surabaya, and the carefully planned and designed hawker centres in Singapore, hawker culture is a distinctive
Keywords
Hawkers, food centres, hawker centres, infrastructure, hawker trade, Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Human Geography | Place and Environment | Urban Studies
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
The cultural infrastructure of cities
Editor
Alison L. Bain & Julie A. Podmore
First Page
149
Last Page
160
ISBN
9781788214940
Identifier
10.2307/jj.4688122.15
Publisher
Agenda Publishing
City or Country
Newcastle upon Tyne
Citation
KONG, Lily and WONG, Aidan Marc.
Hawker culture and its infrastructure: Experiences and contestations in everyday life. (2023). The cultural infrastructure of cities. 149-160.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/153
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.4688122.15
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