2025-12-24
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You might think food brings people together but on the internet it has at times led to heated debates.
Food disputes are most intense between close neighbours like China and South Korea or Singapore and Malaysia.
Take Hainanese chicken rice as an example.
Was that really how chicken rice was invented?
What do you think?
Singapore considers it to be its national dish But in 2009,
a Malaysian minister said it was uniquely Malaysian, but it had been hijacked by Singapore.
And we're not just talking about who can claim dishes like chilli crab or bibimba.
Countries are also arguing over who came up with the food markets known as hawker centres.
few things are as politically charged, passionately defended, or purgently divisive as the durian,
with Malaysia and Indonesia both staking cultural and agricultural claims to the king of fruits.
In the dispute over the so-called king of tropical fruits,
durian has even involved the United Nations.
I think a lot of times food has this nice reputation of it's bringing us together,