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'For Singaporeans, eating is a national pastime, and our hawker food is gaining global recognition for being delicious yet affordable. But what is hawker food? Is it the equivalent of street food elsewhere? In this episode of “The Library Report”, we find out the origins of hawker food in Singapore and its 200-year old evolution. Timestamps: 00:00 – Teaser 00:37 – Episode Introduction 00:52 – Opening Titles 01:01 – The Beginnings of Our Hawker Culture 02:08 – Problems Caused by Street Hawking 03:08 – Setting Up the First 6 Hawker Shelters in the 1930s 03:16 – Resurgence of Hawkers After WWII 04:10 – Hawker Shelters: A Space Where Ethnic Cuisines Borrowed from Each Other 04:37 – Hawker Culture Gets a Facelift 05:19 – Is There Any Real “Street Food” in Singapore? 06:51 – Closing Watch more from \"The Library Report\": https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJlLW0qKYHTND-1WUj5h-TJO27_Spj4dL - Visit our libraries: https://www.nlb.gov.sg/visitus.aspx Check out our eResources: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/main Follow National Archives of Singapore on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NationalArchivesSG Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nationalarchivessg/ #TheLibraryReport #NAS #Singapore #History #Heritage #Hawker #Food #Culture'See also:
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