SMU President Prof Lily Kong on the development of Singapore's hawker culture
Hawkers are so central to Singapore life that the country recently led a successful campaign to have the practice inscribed on the 2020 UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Professor Kong, author of Singapore Hawker Centres: People, Places, Food. commented on the development and future of Singapore's hawker culture in this article published in National Geographic in January 2021.