A History Of Singapore Hawker Culture: From Food To Architecture | Hawkers In Our Centre | Part 1/2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ธ.ค. 2020
- From street peddlers to food masters in hawker centres, hawkers have been feeding Singaporeans for over a century. How did this humble trade become our national culture and part of our DNA?
The series looks at the parallel history between Singapore's development, and the emergence of our hawker culture, with hawkers feeding Singaporeans for over a century to date. Our story starts off with a look at the history, from how early settlers took to the trade, to the urgent construction in the 1970s of our "community dining halls" - the hawker centres.
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What is the future for Singapore's hawker culture? Watch more in the second part of #HawkersInOurCentreCNA: th-cam.com/video/9zTa3cAuKLo/w-d-xo.html
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As Singaporeans, today we are so blessed with almost all kinds of food that are used to be in-store or restaurant. Not any more, you could have a bowl of ramen, mala, Korean, western food in a hawker centre. Thank the hardworking hawkers who run the store and the people who plan and build the hawker centre in the early days.
This documentary makes me miss Singapore even more.
Thank you for the authentic documentary on the history of Singapore Hawker Culture. Congratulations. CNA Insider continue your well researched and authentic documentary. Much appreciated.
I never planned to watch this video. It just randomly turned up in my homepage. But I was hooked from the start and watched till the end. I thought this documentary was well done and resonated quite well within the Singaporean me and my love for hawker food.
Congratulations and THANK YOU to all Hawker owners, operators, helpers and cleaners. Without you guys food life in Singapore can never be where it is today. You guys helped to feed us and put Singapore food prominently into world map
Hawker culture is here to stay. Many good foods at affordable prices were spend with good company.
Singapore is the best place to live in and.got the beautiful healthy foods and the best place to live in thank you very much for the best foods thanks
This is what I call SINGAPORE PRIDE🦁🔥
Hawker centers in Singapore are a godsend.
Another fascinating documentary from CNA Insider. Informatively scripted, well balanced points of view, cleverly animated, and an important subject that sits at the heart of Singapore’s existence. Thoroughly enjoyed watching and learning from this production.
Lovely recreation of the stories through graphic animation.... really great and well put together documentary looking forward to more such creations :)
V well produced series, massive props to the animation team! Excellent research too
Hawker culture should continue. It is the only thing i miss in singapore since i left the country last 2013. I worked there from 2010 to 2013.
That's so great and very wonderful about Singapore civilization and lifestyle 😊👍
I lived in Singapore for last 20 years of my life
Had been Singaporen for my whloe life now
And when Singapore wanted Singapore hawer culture and heritage to be part of the UNESCO list
I was happy s the rest of the world will recognise our hawker centres as part of Singapore heritage for a long time to come
I aslo eaten at some of these hawkers before like the one at Chinatown
@@gwarguraqueentrickstarcoat9110 Yes thanks for your sharing
Hawker culture comes a long way
In the 60s, u sit to be served. Pay after you finish
In the 80s u queue to get food, pay when your food is ready to collect
In the 2000s you queue and pay 1st, then you get a number, your number will be called when the food is ready
In 2020s add on to 2000s plus return trays and utensils after you eat
Maybe in 2040s, you pay and cook for yourself then clean up plus mop the floor before you leave🤣🤣🤣
In 2050, after you mop the floor, you cut the toenails of the cashiers.
I've been going to hawker centres since '81 and I remember them underneath the residents and they were so cheap and the food was so good!!!!!😃🎤👍🇦🇺
What a great recognition given to this trade. A successful hawker has grit, passion and a desire to keep improving himself and stay competitive. For every successful hawker, there are just as many who did not make it.
We moved to SG just for the hawkers. If they disappear, we would be devastated. Outdoor dining is so much easier and more accessible during the pandemic because of hawkers. Stay safe!
As an overseas Singaporean, it’s so true that those of us abroad miss home for the 3 Fs… family, friends, and (hawker) food! And thanks CNA for yet another insightful documentary
We absolutely loved hawkers during our stay. We went to have breakfast daily at a centre called Broadway next to Sim Lim Square. ❤
well done. Thanks.
Omg... @26:36 Ms. Tia! My TP lecturer years back! I owe it to her for my love of appreciating colors! :D
Yummy! It is so hard to pick a favorite hawker dish! Now that UNESCO has recognized Singapore's hawker food as a living Cultural world heritage tradition, the government will have to protect and promote hawker centers in the country!
Food business seems great in Singapore. I think it's something I'll like to venture into when i have enough capital.
Sure, that's a great idea but have you thought of gathering more than enough capital off bitcoin? I think u should invest in that first. It takes you into another level of growth. Trust me, you will be starting up your business in more bigger and better way with the help of Crypto currency
yes you cant go wrong with food business but you should also think about the benefit of crypto currency.
Im very much thankful to PM LKY. This is the best of singapore. Majulah Singapura 🇸🇬
Most freeloaders n pests thank him
It's so inspiring
CNA is the BEST !!! Greetings from 🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳
I so miss Singaporean food now.
I only visit Malaysia/Singapore every 5 years, because I love all the food and I gain weight after each trip. I want to taste everything, it's hard to control since I knew I only have limited time to taste it, lol
Can someone please list down all the stalls they featured? 🙏🏼
Thanks for the video CNA, but is there any information about the sources if entertainment of street hawkers? Thanks!
Hawker centre food is the absolute best. The weather is just too hot in Singapore which is a pity, or Singapore would be just perfect.
Food King is a Channel which also tries food from Hawker Centre. :D
It used to be... day time open air parking lots in Shenton Way would be converted to a make shift open air hawker food stores. Then the tables and chairs were privately owned by each store. Usually there were fighting among store holders over customers' use. You would be lucky if the fights were near to where you are sitting. Lucky if you had eaten and simply walked away. The practice in those days were eat first and pay later. 😅🤣
So glad & shall always support these, Mom and Pop culture to sustain this economy. We need to stave off franchising, capitalism and build our entrepreneurial spirit that wealth may equally shared.
I admire SINGAPORE EVEN the hawkers community is been cope up in times so that people have jobs and business lucky you singporeans LOVE YOUR COUNTRY
Nice
Yay SG successful push hawker culture gain recognition under #UnescoHeritage list, now neighbouring MY morning wet market and night market hawker across 13 states to work on.
My favourite eating place in the 80's was the satay gardens...
Never feel hard to find good food in Singapore...they got all delicious food and clean areas...surprised to know that once satay was in danger for they tried to abolish its hawkers.
Good food goes by word of mouth 🤗 or just see which queue is longer
Congratulations.
It’s the story behind the food that makes these dishes more enjoyable! Keep at it team. Also to support your next door hawker, checkout urbantummy.com
the narrator is the voice we often hear in museums, lol
Didn't expect to see Mark Lee here, hahaha 8:30
wow now the indonesian wife has a singaporean malay accent too very niceee
Missing the days when I could have my meal at Hawkers every evening.
which hawker centre can I eat the 71 year old uncle hokkien noodles?
It's at Old Airport Road Food Centre, the stall is called Nam Sing Hokkien Mee.
Wow I wanna sell somtam(papaya salad), grilled chicken, beef, pork, and other Thai north-eastern and Thai southern recipe there. Hopefully being the first Thai food hawker there!!!
I'm thankful LKY that bunch of old guard resettle the hawker and preserve them. Other place like HK or Beijing destroyed their hawker culture and took it away. The few thing Singapore is cheap is the hawker food. And Malaysia leh, they don't have half as many market as us. Their people and hawker are still on the street.
Who actually also think that Karen Tan (Narrator for BOAN) would be narrating this too?
Thinking same thing - the caucasian narrator voice throws it off - I much prefer Karen Tan
The “angmo” narrator is competent but nobody beats Karen Tan from BOAN
Perhaps the tonality of Karen could exude the feel of homeliness of a Singaporean.
Kudos to our hawkers. We still need to solve the problems of birds eating leftovers, the wet, filthy toilets, oily stained tables when cleaners don't do a thorough job and uncouth customers who refuse to queue.
Are you serious? What else do you expect from stalls charging as little as $3 for your meals? Do you expect air conditioned seating with views of marina bay?
@@limpei6542 yes I am serious. It is a quantum leap from clean tables to aircon comfort with sea views. Can we not have clean tables without aircon? Why put words in my mouth and miss my point. Read carefully before replying.
This documentary makes me so hungry...
But the bidding system behind the scenes when one wants to start a small hawker stall makes the rent ridiculously high. With stall rents going for as high as $4k excluding other fees, how do you expect the tradition of affordable local food to maintain?
Singapore
food vloggers and bloggers brisk business after the announcement
A year later, the govt allows for people to buy over coffeeshops, raise the rent which in turn forces hawkers to relocate.
Tables separated?
Well it's reality now with covid-19, social distancing.
The horse stand dark old fellow frying Hokkien Mee is a legendary master. Don't play play...
I love hawkers centre. I only know how to eat n criticize.
This is the funny thing about Singapore getting UNESCO recognition for its "hawker culture". First of all, the way hawkers operate today is far removed from how our grandparents and great grandparents experienced it. It's a sterilized version of the vibrant atmosphere which was the original Singapore food scene. They forced travelling vendors off the streets and forced them to operate from one premise only at hawker centers. My late grandmother told me that the now gentrified Arab Street used to be abuzz with itinerant hawkers, some of them were residents of the shophouses who set up stall just in front of their front door. They know their customer's preferences by heart as they were neighbours and family. Then the Government swoop in and all these old neighbourhoods don't have any of their original communities anymore. My grandma said this is so different from when she was young. The sights, sounds, smells, and sense of community is not there anymore. And now they introduce this western notion of sending your own tray. That's not part of the Singapore experience. UNESCO should review "Singapore hawker culture" from its list of intangible cultural heritage because it is being changed to something even Singaporeans can't recognize.
Hawkers of the old are just like hawkers now in Thailand.
With our government strict control of licensing and standardising there’s no way the old ways can exist. The ‘soul’ of olden days hawkers are permanently put to rest so to speak.
The last I heard, hawker centers are for low SES so I guess these high SES scared the relevant authority to put effort to preserve it.
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Those days food was so tasty and more then we could eat and cheap. These days food is too little and no taste and too expensive. Why ?
you probably went to the wrong stall
@@PorKxChoPs 😄😄
true, the meat portion is really pathetic
The hawkers should not be changed rental, instead heavily subsidized hawker stalls should be given to aspiring young hawkers
Now hawker go syndicate, to me why hawker can have so many stall? Why is difference from the initial government aim to help family have their own living.
Example
Each family can apply for a hawker license in hawker center. Why now some individual hawker can have so many stalls across island? A chicken rice stall why he can owned so many stall? This stall like to show off his photo posting with some big shot.
Like in Bedok south Blk 18, Waterloo hawker center, Ang Mok kio...etc
Referring to HDB hawker center not private coffee shop
Good valid questions
@14:50 ... A Malay who cannot eat spicy food? wtf?
Then what he eat? lol
It is a multi-racial and multi-cultural society which the West could have difficulties in living with.
Diversity, is the key word.
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I suddenly miss Klang Bah Kut Teh TT
no doubt singapore has a better marketing than manalaysian food
Other then Chili Crab are not only exclusive culture of Singapore and part of Malaysia. Especially Hainanese Chicken rice originally come from Malacca.
where is the proof for chicken rice originating in Malacca? in fact it was an invention of the chinese migrants from hainan island. nobody can prove when exactly this dish was created.
I tried to watch this on TV and could hardly hear the narrator. It's the same on TH-cam. Would love to watch this but can't get past the awful sound editing. Please do something about it!
Agree with you, Cheryl. I could hardly hear the narrator too. CNA, please get a Singaporean narrator the next time.
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27 dislikes by Malaysians 🙃
Every single south East Asian food was made in Singapore la 😂😂
All malay vendors
Hawker? Is it worthy?
Can lah. Hawkers centers around here in singapore, is worthy. Not for singaporean but also for the foreigners visiting singapore. And also for foreign workers here. How about you? are you worthy ah? 🤪😅
@@lanceli4002 dumb
Of course worthy. They are their own boss. Compare to being keyboard warrior with dumb comments.
@@deschan2246 you ah
@@matbond4658 own boss? 🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂
Why is hawker culture only owned/claim by Singapore ?, as if other countries like Indonesia, Malaysia,Thailand and Philippines don't have hawker culture ?..lol
Nothing special here. Hawkers are all over SE Asia. In Singapore they are no longer hawkers but shops in food courts and restaurants. A misnomer.
there are hawker centres all around S'pore ,they are different from the food courts in the shopping centres.
Malaysian food is better
However Singapore food is the best!
History... really? Everybody knows Malaysia has better foods.
Singapore are creating their culture.
In any videos about sg hawkers, you get jealous Malaysian, Malaysians have loads of food vodeos too, Singaporeans rarely comment negatively there. Lets understand, there are great food in Malaysia as well as Singapore and also many other countries. And every other person have their preference.
@@tttan1843 @TT Tan Forgive him, Malaysia only makes the news for all the wrong reasons. Every sucess that Singapore has highlights Malaysia's failings on the international stage.
It should be 'every Malaysian knows'. I always see foreigners commenting abt how much they miss S'pore food and can't wait to visit S'pore again.
@@tttan1843 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@@JustScrap78 yeah these jealous Malaysians have a chip on their shoulder given how SG has progressed while their own country has languished (if not deteriorated in recent years). I actually feel a little sorry for them
Chinese is 扁擔 and Malay is kandar. Is there is special name in English instead of 'shoulder pole'?
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