Foodie heaven makes the list

One for the books: Customers having lunch at the Maxwell market hawker centre in Singapore, a day after Singapore’s street food culture was included on the Unesco list of intangible cultural heritage. — AFP

The country’s tradition of communal dining at hawker centres, open air food courts popularised by celebrity chefs and hit films such as Crazy Rich Asians, has been recognised by Unesco for its cultural significance.

The United Nations’ cultural agency announced on Wednesday it had added the city-state’s “hawker culture” to its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, nearly two years after Singapore submitted a bid to be included in the list.