The dishes look like they are from a fine-dining restaurant. Yet the food on the plates was bought at ordinary hawker centres. Boasting close to 4,000 followers, Instagram account Dabaogram, was started two years...
The process of creating the up market-styled dishes first involves a discussion over the dish to feature. Once they settle on the “relatable yet impactful” styling to implement, they hit the hawker stalls – usually in the west of Singapore – to get the food.
The food stylists then take about 20 to 30 minutes to plate the food – depending on the complexity of the ingredients – before the finished product is photographed and posted. The images gaining likes on the image-sharing platform look a world away from the plastic plates and Styrofoam boxes one might usually receive the dishes on.Mr Yap shared: “We try our best to not add additional ingredients and stay true to the original dish.”
Singapore’s hawker culture has been nominated to be added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Regarding the nomination, Mr Yap said: “Hawker culture here is unique in that there are a lot of different dishes in one location.Dabaogram has it’s own global reach. It often receives messages from Singaporeans overseas, who reveal that they, upon seeing the pictures, miss home.
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