Fann Wong and Li Nanxing celebrate hawker culture with a song
The local celebrities are featured in the song Our Dining Hall, which commemorates the first anniversary of Singapore hawker culture making its way to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Fann Wong singing Our Dining Hall as a tribute to Singapore's hawker culture (Photo: YouTube screen grab)
Want to hear Fann Wong, Li Nanxing and other local celebrities wax lyrical about kaya roti, kopi C, bak chor mee and chicken curry? You absolutely can in the brand-new song celebrating hawker culture that just dropped on Tuesday (Dec 14) called Our Dining Hall.
Supported by the Federation of Merchants’ associations, the song commemorates the first anniversary of Singapore’s hawker culture being added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Julie Tan, Shane Pow, Vivian Lai, Vincent Ng, Constance Song, Luo Kemin and Rayson Tan are also featured on the track.
In an interview with AsiaOne, Wong and Li weighed in on this question that surrounds hawker culture: Is it okay to ‘chope’ a table using a packet of tissue paper?
Wong said that her preferred way of reserving a table is by sitting there – "the old-school way", she quipped, while Li, on the other hand, admitted that he has even "choped" seats using his car keys.
Wong also told AsiaOne that she loves that the song “feels very happy and the rhythm is catchy”. She added that songwriter Harry Yap is “amazing because he managed to include every delicious hawker dish name into the lyrics”.
You can say that this catchy jingle is a feast for our ears and our taste buds.
