IIDA, Nagano Prefecture—Hideo Shimizu has been frustrated by the reluctance of a peace memorial museum here to display panels about the infamous Unit 731, where he worked during World War II.

A second home to many, Singapore’s hawker centers are a melting pot of cuisines where a number of subcultures have formed. Hokkien Mee chef tends to his hot wok. Photgraph by Nicky Loh 5 min ...

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SINGAPORE – Singapore’s hawker centres are great for many things: cheap meals, convenient access, even cultural cachet. It did, after all, earn Singapore its first inscription on Unesco’s ...

In Singapore, it’s not unusual for total strangers to ask, “Have you eaten yet?” A greeting akin to “Good morning,” it invariably leads to follow-up questions. What did you eat? Where ...

Hawker's Kitchen, at 1975 N. Ankeny Blvd. off Northeast 18th Street, pays homage to street food culture and Singapore's iconic hawker centers, where people gather to dine in open-air food courts.

SINGAPORE – On four occasions, a customer patronised a roast duck stall at Boon Lay Place Market hawker centre, each time ordering $50 worth of dishes. When stall owner Wang Mei Xiang checked ...

SINGAPORE: The rental renewal policy for successful hawker tenders will be revised from November to avoid overly high tender bids, announced the National Environment Agency (NEA) on Monday (Nov 4).

Worried that local hawker culture could disappear in a few years, Hong Jifeng (transliteration) decided to test out a novel solution. Called Wok A.I., his stall is located at Margaret Drive ...

Dr. Norman Hawker is a professor of finance and commercial law at Western Michigan University's Haworth College of Business. Prior to joining the faculty at the Haworth College of Business, Hawker ...

Newton Food Centre was brought to fame following its feature in the star-studded blockbuster film Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and has since cemented itself as a must-visit destination for tourists.

This apparent decline seems to be symptomatic of the complicated issues that plague the hawker trade as a whole. With inflation and rental costs, hawkers are finding it increasingly difficult to ...