Food, Memories, and Identities in Hong Kong

Chan, Selina Ching

doi:10.1080/10702891003733492

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“…Memories have an important role in assessing food and its taste [61], and in affecting the present eating practices [62]. Post-millennials are in their early 20's, but their hellim/halloumi consumption is hugely affected by memories of their family, especially of their ancestors, friends, and others.…”

Section: Memories That Surround the Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Perspective of Traditional Cheese Consumption Practices and Its Sustainability among Post-Millennial Consumers

Garanti

Berberoğlu

2018

Sustainability

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(1) Background: The consumption of traditional foods has been linked to economic, social, and environmental sustainability; therefore, the main challenge of a changing marketplace is to ensure that young generations continue consuming traditional products. The current study uses a consumer culture theory (CCT) perspective to examine the following: (1) the way individuals use their traditional products to identify themselves with the culture and to feel that they are a part of the community, (2) the underlying values that turn young consumers into loyal customers of hellim/halloumi cheese, and (3) its implications to hellim/halloumi producers. (2) Methods: A qualitative research method is applied to study the perceptions of post-millennials towards traditional cheese products from a cultural perspective. (3) Results: The results of the study reveal that loyalty towards traditional food products amongst post-millennials is build based on (1) the memories that surround the food, (2) the rituals that preparing and eating a food involve, and (3) the identity that it builds, allowing people feel sense of belonging to their ethnic group. (4) Conclusions: Loyalty amongst post-millennials towards traditional food products tends to be emotional, rather than rational or behavioral. It allows us to present both theoretical and managerial implications. It also calls for more empirical research to understand the changing marketplace and post-millennials’ consumption habits.

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Section: Memories That Surround the Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Perspective of Traditional Cheese Consumption Practices and Its Sustainability among Post-Millennial Consumers

Garanti

Berberoğlu

2018

Sustainability

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“…The psychological context (e.g., life satisfaction, positive effect, self‐esteem, and acculturative stress) may influence food preferences . The nostalgic recollection of comfort food from the immigrant's country of origin can evoke memories that temporarily distract from current realities, hardships, and life stresses . Acculturative stress among immigrants could arise from the process of adapting to a new host country .…”

Section: Uses Of the Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concept analysis of dietary biculturalism in Filipino immigrants within the context of cardiovascular risk

2017

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“…Consuming local produce has become part of the identity politics related to discourses and actions to ‘maintain a distance’ from China, especially from negative influences (such as unsafe food), and political interference. The discussion of local organic food production and consumption can be considered a continuation of the sustaining debates on local food identity (see Watson, ; Chan, ; Cheng, ).…”

Section: Worldwide Food Activism and Food Localisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the revival of local food production in HK through a turn to organic farming has occurred in the context of a worldwide concern of food risks and promotion of eco‐agriculture, it has also to do with the particularistic momentum in search for a local food identity characterised by a differentiation between more trustworthy local production and unscrupulous production in China. Chan () has studied the emergence of punchoi as a popular dish around 1997, and shown how this has reflected different layers of Chineseness and the HK identity. She argues that punchoi has become ‘a symbolic parlance of Hong Kong identity and is used to mark the difference with the rest of the Chinese in Mainland China’, enshrining the local identity politics on the eve of HK's return to China.…”

Section: Food Politics and Cross‐border Food Relationsmentioning

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Food localism and resistance: a revival of agriculture and cross‐border relations in Hong Kong

Chan

2016

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Hong Kong, a part of China, yet separated from it by a borderline and a different social system, relies mostly on China for its fresh food. With a high incidence of food contamination, many Hong Kong people have turned to a new food alternative – locally grown organic vegetables. The number of organic growers has risen significantly over the past decade. This paper examines the emergence of local organic food production in Hong Kong since the turn of the century. Not only is this revival of an interest in agricultural production (manifested in the increase in organic farms and organic food consumers that is related to the global movement of eco‐agriculture), it is also intertwined with a public discourse relating to land preservation, the balance between an agricultural economy and urban development and food localism. Continuous food news revealing the scale of substandard and poisonous food produced in China have escalated the scare surrounding unsafe food and has helped turn consumers to local produce and to build the discourses on food localism. The paper argues that such a local food consciousness has been fed by the local politics of resistance against negative influences from China in the evolving cross‐border relations between China and Hong Kong.

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Food, Memories, and Identities in Hong Kong

Cited by 32 publications

References 19 publications

Cultural Perspective of Traditional Cheese Consumption Practices and Its Sustainability among Post-Millennial Consumers

Cultural Perspective of Traditional Cheese Consumption Practices and Its Sustainability among Post-Millennial Consumers

Concept analysis of dietary biculturalism in Filipino immigrants within the context of cardiovascular risk

Food localism and resistance: a revival of agriculture and cross‐border relations in Hong Kong

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