This book offers a step-to-step guide on how to create a shared food experience that can be used to aid in subsequent projects that helps new foreigners to better settle in Singapore. Through the interview done between a few pairs of Singaporeans and foreigners, key factors were identified first before recommending possible solutions to help mitigate the issue of disconnectedness at hand.

This project hopes to become a stepping-stone for Singaporeans to change their perceptions they had towards foreigners. In Singapore, the growing diversification of food from overseas has shown how Singaporeans are accepting towards foreign cuisines. In fact, the consumption of foreign cuisines has become a way for Singaporeans to build a cosmopolitan identity for themselves (Duffy & Yang, 2012) and being cosmopolitan means an “openness to otherness and difference”. (Young, 2006) Hence, food could potentially be a narrative that Singaporeans shared and it can be a method that we can approach to address the problem between foreigners and locals by creating a shared food experience together.