Depending on your perspective, all food is "fusion". If you take any dish, it's always going to be a fusion of different cultural, and trade, and climate, and a

Depending on your perspective, all food is "fusion". If you take any dish, it's always going to be a fusion of different cultural, and trade, and climate, and agricultural... influences. Today's perspective on "traditional" could be yesterdays tradition-defying modern innovation. You find (with very few exceptions) that it's vary hard to define what a dish actually is. There's no such thing as a "correct" Laksa recipe for instance, so if you want to understand what it is, you have to investigate how different people make it differently, and how that's changed over time. Where you draw the line of "traditional" is mostly rather arbitrary.