Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Fusion food on food trucks

Have you ever watched a TV programme named "Eat Street"? It is a TV programme intorducing food trucks which serve different tasty food. I would like to introduce to you food trucks which serve fusion food. Let's watch the video!!
You would see that there are loads of transnational elements in the food served. For example, there are use of ingredients like Sriracha Hot Sauce ศรีราชา and Tomato Salsa for the food served by the first truck. These names involve transliteration, which meanings are not comprehended by people who are unfamiliar with their cultures. However, if one know the meaning behind their names, they would somehow realize more about their cultures. Sriracha is a place in Thainland. It is famous for producing serfood dishes. Using the place name Sriracha with "hot sauce" may implies Thai's love for spicy seafood. Salsa is a word for sauce in Spain. However, it is commonly seen in Mexican food. This may imply that culture is always under influence. One's culture would be affected by another culture. Since Salsa would appear in Mexican cuisine, it may imply that Spain and Mexico have strong relations.
In the video, Chana Dal and Sev are intorduced. Chana Dal means Fried Lentils, while Sev means Chickpea Flour Noodle, as explained by the video. They are connected to Indian cuisine. These cases, once again, are related to transliteration. If Western words can be used to explain both terms, why their original langugae is represented through transliteation? It maybe related to the theme of the programme. Since it is to bring different kinds of delicious food which are served on food trucks to audience, and this episode is to intorduce food which have different cultural elements, preserving original language maybe a good way for audince to approach to cultural diversity.
What are your opinions?

2 comments:

  1. Hi Winnie.

    Would you try to eat those fusion? Because i am a person who don't like spicy, i am not willing to eat the Thailand food. Because Thailand food are all spicy!
    But it's a good tv programme i think TVB also has some street food task!

    By Miller

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  2. I am a Thai food lover, but I am not sure if I would have a try since they looks GREATTTTT to me (in terms of quantity) lol
    I am afraid of Thai food initially, but after trying it for a few times (under my mother's training), I find myself being unable to eat noodles, fishcake, meatballs, etc without spice sauce
    Hope you would find spicy food yummy in the future!

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