URECA Kristy Kang 2016-17

Sungei Road Flea Market closes on 11 July 2017. Just a month ago I went to a discussion panel (Sungei Road Market: A future for street culture heritage?) at the Substation hosted by Dr Chua Ai Lin, President of Singapore Heritage Society. The panelists include Prof Tay Kheng Soon (NUS), Dr Laavanya Kathiravelu (NTU), and Faiz bin Zohri, an architect and volunteer for the Save Sungei Road Read more →

For our field research on Tiong Bahru Market and Food Centre, Shoki and I went to the marketplace on 11 Feb 2017 before it closes for renovation and again on 28 May 2017 when the renovation was completed. We spent 5 hours stating 7am on a Sunday on location filming and photographing. Here is a reflection and update of what Read more →

Waking up in the early morning of a Saturday where the sky is still dark, Prof Kristy, Shoki and I made our way to Tanam Jurong Market on 21st Jan 2017. Singapore have a long history of hawking and Hawker Centre is intertwine as part of the history of hawking. As mentioned in Eating Together, “hawker food, traditionally, is street Read more →

Peranakan cuisine are unique as they are a fusion of mostly Malay and Chinese dishes. Historically, Peranakan are known as Straits Chinese as men from China settle down with the local women in Malacca. The men are known as Baba while the women Nonya. They spoke in Baba Malay (slightly different from proper Malay) and a Chinese dialect, with the Read more →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-2q-QMUIgY

From what I understand, World War II can often be seen in multiple angles and one of them is the fight for resources. The above CrashCourse video give an overview of World War II happening due to the lack of resources in the invading countries. This is also the theme in Wong Hong Suen’s ‘Wartime Kitchen’ and this post will Read more →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zYws8dqmc

Local television producer MediaCorp (back then known as Singapore Broadcasting Corporation) created a whole drama series known as Kopi-O (咖啡乌), centered around a few low-to-mid income families, you kind of get the idea how local coffee fit into Singapore’s cultural narrative. Kaya Toast, Coffee Shop, and Coffee itself was one of the early research topic and after some more reading, I Read more →

A click through an article posted on National Heritage Board‘s (NHB) Facebook page somehow brought me to their unique website – https://www.roots.sg/. They even have a Google Map Trails section not unlike the prototype we have on OSS right now.

But that’s not what this post is about though. After poking around in what the website offers, I came across Read more →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53zDWAFTww0&

As the research project deals with early history of modern Singapore and the immigrants and migrants of that time, Prof Kristy thought this documentary series would be useful as a case study since the story is similar to that of early modern Singapore (and still is to a lesser extend).

After the founding of modern Singapore by Sir Stanford Raffles, there Read more →

Singapore Dishes and Their Complicated Origins

Last week’s trip to Jurong Regional Library was a fruitful one as I found a copy of ‘Singapore Hawker Classics Unveiled’, a book by Temasek Polytechnic in celebration of SG50. It covers 25 popular local dishes, with some information on their origin, variation and even recipe.

In the past few weeks, I have already found out Read more →

Through the Looking Glass of Singapore’s Past

I took a bit of time to go through some online articles that I posted in the previous post, and also to read through 2 chapters each from Eating Her Curries and Kway and Food, Foodways and Foodscape. I just wanted to take some time to post my thoughts on what the authors have Read more →