Eating together
Subtitle: food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore
By: Jean Duruz and Gaik Cheng Khoo
Contributors: Khoo, Gaik Cheng, 1969- author
Publisher: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre; Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD)
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9789670630571
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Social life and customs; Food habits
Description: On analyses cultures of eating together and explores the national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity in Malaysia and Singapore.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-253) and index.

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