FROM PAUL CHAN POH HOI
APRIL 8
By 2027, Singapore will have 20 new hawker centres. However, society should drop its dated image of hawker centres to raise the profile of the hawker workforce. (“Ten more hawker centres to be built in next 12 years”; March 12)
If society continues to hold hawkers in low regard, we will fail to embrace them in our supposedly inclusive society.
It is time we appreciate their culinary skills, raise their status and transform their working environment to remove the stigma attached.
