Eating together: food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore

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"Analyses cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker centers, and coffee shops. Reflecting on these as sites for people's "different" culinary exchanges, the book captures resonances of national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity"--

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Full title :Eating together : food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore / Jean Duruz and Gaik Cheng Khoo.

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Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 262 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442227415, 1442227419, 9781322520155, 1322520151
oclc:ocn898769364
LC Classification:GT2853.M4
Dewey Decimal:394.1/209595

Introduction : making rojak or eating together-in-difference? -- Kopitiam : in search of cosmopolitan spaces and meanings in Malaysia -- Spreading the toast of memory : from Hainanese kopitiams to boutique coffee shops in Singapore -- Mamak, anyone? : Tamil Muslim eateries in Malaysia -- Growing up transnational : travelling through Singapore's hawker centers -- Dumplings at Changi : Singapore's urban villages as spaces of exchange and re-invention -- The little nyonya and Peranakan Chinese identity : between commodification and cosmopolitanism -- Currying the nation : a song and dance about multiculturalism.

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Food -- Social aspects Food habits -- Social aspects Food habits -- Social aspects -- Malays… Food habits -- Social aspects -- Singap… Habitudes alimentaires -- Aspect social… Habitudes alimentaires -- Aspect social… Malaisie -- Mœurs et coutumes malaysia Malaysia -- Social life and customs Manners and customs Singapore Singapore -- Social life and customs SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food