ABSTRACT
Gentrification projects in “ethnic” neighbourhoods of postcolonial cities of the West suggest intriguing implications for culinary futures. This chapter traces ways traditional tastes of Singapore and Malaysia’s “mixed” food cultures are re-invented in cities where shared histories of British colonialism intersect with Florida’s “creative city” planning. Recently, in both Toronto and Melbourne, “fusion” food, together with associated hipster lifestyles and landscapes, has been declared “hot”. While this trend might be cast as culinary adventuring, it is possible that new spaces and identities of belonging, vested in the “Asian”, the “cosmopolitan” and the “hybrid”, are being forged.
