Eating together : food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore / Jean Duruz and Gaik Cheng Khoo
Publication details: Petaling Jaya, Selangor : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2015Description: xv, 262 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9789670630571Subject(s): Food habits -- Social aspects -- Malaysia | Food habits -- Social aspects -- Singapore | Malaysia -- Social life and customs | Singapore -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 394.1209595| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-253) and index.
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.
On analyses cultures of eating together and explores the national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity in Malaysia and Singapore.
In English
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