The best ways to understand a new place and it’s cultural milieu on the street is to walk it and eat in its hyper local spaces where the regular folk eat for lunch or dinner. As a professional intellectual flaneur who studied the culture of risk, food spaces are understudied in migration or global cities literature where the affective spaces of the global from below are at odds with the shiny citadels of urbanism from KLCC to Dubai Mall to the Fullerton.
Here is a humble brunch in a Chinese coffee shop on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur where the sound of the wok and the whiff in the air, are the symphony of the global from below city.
Change Thinker 