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Singapore hawker centres: people, places, food
by
Lily Kong
176 pages
Published
2007
by National Environment Agency
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First the plus points: It's a book on Singapore Hawker Centres! And the fact that Lily Kong's book is illustrated with gorgeous photos of hawker centres, hawkers cooking up a storm and patrons tucking into all kinds of local fare. The minuses? Given that this is a book commissioned by the National Environment Agency, Singapore Hawker Centres is very much a PR piece on this quintessentially Singaporean institution (as Kong notes, "[t]he name 'hawker centre' is so familiar in Singapore that its ir...more
An inevitable book. The definitive history of hawker centres in Singapore. Talk to anyone who knows even a little about hawker centres, and they'll point you towards Lily Kong.
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