The Polls show that Hainanese are the biggest Foodies
The results of the polls are out and it seems that of the different dialect groups, the Hainanese have the largest proportion of foodies!
Altogether, 2873 people voted and the breakdown is as follows:
In terms of numbers, the Hokkiens (26.9%) have a narrow lead over the Teochews (24.3%), followed closely by the Cantonese (18.8%) with a smaller population of Hakka (8.9%) and Hainanese (11.4%).
However, this does not really tell us whether being of a certain dialect group would make you more of a foodie. What I think would give us a more accurate picture is to compare the proportion of the voters to the proportion of dialect groups in Singapore in general.
According to this website, the proportion of the dialect groups in Singapore are: Hokkien (45%), Teochew (22.5%), Cantonese (16%), Hakka (7%) and Hainanese (5%). So what we can do is to divide our results with that of the general population to get a ratio which we shall call the foodie dialect index (FDI).
The way to think of the FDI is as follows: We know that 45% of the chinese population are Hokkien, but only 26.9% of the voters here claim themselves to be Hokkien. The FDI is thus 26.5/45 or 0.58. So that means that there are proportionately less Hokkiens who are foodies than the general population. (Either that or they are really bo chap and cannot be bothered to vote but let's just assume they are not). So anything less than 1 means that the dialect group probably value other things more than food and if the FDI is greater than 1, that means that food is an important part of the culture of that particular dialect group.
With the FDI, the Hainanese came out tops by far with an index score of 2.28. This was followed by the Hakka (1.27), Cantonese (1.18) and Teochew (1.08). The Hokkiens are a distant fifth with only 0.58.
So if we draw an analogy from the English and French, we can say that the Hainanese are more like the French who really put an emphasis on the enjoyment of food while the Hokkiens are more like the English where food is just smaller part of their life. (Some people tell me the Hokkiens are just more interested in making money). Whatever it is, I am pretty disappointed that us Teochews did not even come close to being second. But at least it sort of explains how a small dialect group like the Hainanese are responsible for so many of our hawker favourites like Chicken Rice, Kopi and Kaya Toast, Hainanese Pork Chops and Curry Rice etc.
So do you all think this is a pretty accurate reflection of the different dialect groups?
View the results here
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20 comments:
erm leslie, r u sure e hainanese have the largest proportion of foodies?
it seems to me it's e hokkiens 26.9% vs hainanese 11.4%??
What I am saying is that there is a higher chance that a Hainanese is a foodie than a Hokkien because with so many more Hokkiens around, the number of Hokkiens voting should be closer to 45% but they only have 26.9% of the votes. Whereas the Hainanese who make up only 5% of the population managed to garner 11.4% of the votes. So these numbers tell me that if we were to randomly put 100 Hainanese and 100 Hokkiens together, there should be more foodies from the Hainanese group than the Hokkien group
I die die agree with the results~ hahaha, I'm hainanese mah and yes, we all love food leh.
well.. i m not surprised..
the Hainanese are known to be good cooks and chefs..
I like the poll and the analysis thingy, quite interesting and pretty accurate reflection.
For Teochews, I think they are also money makers as most Teochews that I know are businessmen. :)
Your methods might be alien to some readers who cannot understand your FDI lol.
To put it simply, ieat basically is looking for the percentage of each dialect who is a foodie. Not the absolute number.
i finally understand what you are talking about......moooahahahahahahah
thanks for explaining=] i was like blur blur when i saw the title and statistics.
i agree totally with your FDI, yes, the true blue hainanese are the real deal foodies. you can't argue with these hainam ah-kors who were the early good cooks. step aside, sam leong! as you may have guessed, i am hainanese n proud of it :)
I too am a Hainanese foodie and proud of it too. Many of my friends(including the businessmen) were blur when it cums to food :)
Hmmmm.... certainly didn't see this coming. Had thought that either the Teochews or Cantonese will win...
Half Hainanese Foodie!
thank leslie for e clear explanation! was reading e first few paragraphs when i posted my comment!
by e way, it's really irritating to see so many anonymous comments without a pen name..
Yay! Hainanese foodie!!! hee... :D
Sorry I retract my comments about anonymous writers being irritating. Guess I am having my pms :)
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ABOVE COMMENT: "Sorry I retract my comments about anonymous writers being irritating. Guess I am having my pms :)" IS NOT WRITTEN BY ME.
to e anonymous who "tried" to imitate me: wanna copy also copy properly..
n i never retract anything i said..
tat's y i said those under anonymous id r super irritating n YOU proved me to be right? ;)
Yeah! Interesting poll. I am a Hainanese foodie too. :P
I thought hokkien win the highest foodie population?
I'm Hainanese, and I love food! Although I must say, the result does come as a surprise, because I'm the only Hainanese amongst my friends and all of them (of various dialects) love food even more than me! And I'm the only one in my family who loves food!
But then again, I guess I can't speak for everyone, and my friends can't represent everyone as well, so YEAH! Hainanese foodies rock!
Me hainanese too! And me super foodie. I like western and jap. =]
i didn't vote on the polls, but anyway i'm hainanese and i love good food. =]
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