S'pore owns hawker culture because of better marketing, says article


Singapore's Hawker Centre. - Filepic

PETALING JAYA: As the "food fight" between Singapore and Malaysia continues to simmer, an article in a Singaporean website is asserting that hawker culture belongs to Singapore because "they have more money than Malaysia".

The opinion piece, which was published on news portal ricemedia.co, acknowledged that Malaysian food was cheaper and better, but it said nobody cared about this.

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