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Hawker culture debate: The missing ingredient is our willingness to pay
Nostalgia over hawker culture may have trapped us into an outdated view that hawker fare must always be very cheap.
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Hawker centres bring together diners of different races, ages, and social strata to enjoy food derived from our multi-racial heritage.
ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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Perhaps it is no coincidence that while we wring our hands about how to make hawker culture sustainable in Singapore, hawker fare is thriving in Perth.
This crossed my mind while I was having kopi-o gau and kaya toast one morning in Perth, where I now live, and the thought developed over the next day, when I had nasi lemak and kopi peng.
