Burmese Nasi Lemak

A lot of people ask me, regarding my cataloging of food pictures on the digital realm. I think food is a register of everyday cultural politics, that it speaks a lot about diasporas, which I am a child off.

Food is care, food is race, caste and socioeconomics. The politics of food, is loud and speaks about a place without speaking about it. As a food and travel writer, one can write about migration and worlds of globalisation intuitively by writing about Nasi Lemak cooked by Burmese workers in Malaysia after the coup, for instance

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