Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet
Ann Ang, Daryl Lim Wei Jie and Tse Hao Guang (Eds)
Landmark Books: 2020
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Thanks in part to Singapore’s colonial past, English is the language of power, business and the globalised elite. This is doubly true of grammatically correct, flawless English, of the sort you’ll find in the pages of Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, an anthology of writing about food in Singapore. Most Singaporeans are conversant in English, many are fluent, but almost none of us uses the queen’s English unless the occasion is uncomfortably formal.
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