Eating Together: Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore (Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy)

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Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within on a regular basis spaces of “public” eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers, markets, cafes, restaurants, “food streets,” and “ethnic” neighborhoods to supply a broader picture of the meaning of eating in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the ways different people live, eat, work, and chill out together, and traces negotiations and accommodations in these dynamics. The motif of rojak (Malay, meaning “mixture”), at the side of Ien Ang’s evocative “together-in-difference,” enables the analysis to move beyond the immediacy of street eating with its moments of exchange and remembering. In the long run, the book traces the political tensions of “different” people living together, and the seek for home and identity in a world at the move. Every of the chapters designates a different space for exploring these cultures of “mixedness” and their contradictions—whether these involve “old” and “new” types of sociality, struggles over meanings of place, or frissons of pleasure and risk in eating “in a different way.” Simply put, Eating Together is about understanding complex types of multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore through the mind, tongue, nose, and eyes.

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