From Dried Seafood to Instant Ramen
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This chapter provides an example of how imported foods become integrated into Hong Kong life through the work of cultural intermediaries. Hong Kong is now the biggest market outside Japan for Japanese food items – far greater even than the United States, with a population 40 times that of Hong Kong’s. Using Demae Iccho instant noodles as an example, the chapter shows how a transnational Chinese merchant family in Kobe, using existing Chinese networks for distributing dried seafood, played an indispensable role in the process of diffusing the product in Hong Kong from 1969 onwards.
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pp. 1-21
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