December 19, 2020
Straits Times File
Confirm
liao, our hawker culture is now officially part of UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
We promise you we did not make up the name of that list. It exists. And it has 463 items including Armenian letter art, avalanche risk management from Switzerland (they aren’t only good in risk management of the private banking kind
hor) and whistled language from Turkey.
And now there’s our hawker centre culture
liao. So, today when you queue up for your favourite Hokkien prawn mee, nasi lemak, roti prata or kopi-O, be proud that you are going to have a bite of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.