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Hawker centers, like many other nice features of Singapore, is powered by immigrants paid much less than other citizens, while being strictly regulated in a way
by monsieurbanana 1y ago
Hawker centers, like many other nice features of Singapore, is powered by immigrants paid much less than other citizens, while being strictly regulated in a way that only a wealthy yet tiny country can do.
I'm not saying it's necessarily all bad, just that it's not something we can replicate in western countries.
- daseiner1 1y agoWho do you think is delivering food?
- monsieurbanana 1y agoThat's just part of it. Anyone can deliver food, but effectively being a small food stand is completely different. Now having enough small food stands to create a hawker center is even more difficult. But having a hawker center 10 minutes from anywhere, ran exclusively by immigrants but somehow still properly regulated?
- AntiqueFig 1y ago> is powered by immigrants paid much less than other citizens I mean, that's how Deliveroo and other delivery services (Uber eats and equivalents) works (at least here in Europe).
- monsieurbanana 1y agoIt was a mistake from my part to write a quick comment, there's much more than having a low pay that makes it impossible to have a similar hawker culture in other countries. Singapore is effectively a big city, just the difference in geometry between it and pretty much any country you're thinking of makes it impossible to have a "hawker center 10 minutes of walk away from anybody".
- JimDabell 1y agoUntil this year, only citizens / PRs were eligible to work at hawker centres. Even today, it’s quite restricted. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/hawker-stalls-can-hire-long-term-visit-pass-holders-stall-assistants-4676341 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/hawker-stalls-can-...
- noobermin 1y agoPartially true but not really. You're thinking about food courts, not hawker centres.