Laurance Tibère, Cyrille Laporte, Jean-Pierre Poulain, Elise Mognard & Marcella Aloysius
Abstract: This article examines the social construction process of nasi lemak as a national dish in Malaysia. Considering its institutional valorisation, especially in the field of tourism, the study attempts to understand the social imaginaries related to the dish as well as its practical status in the day-to-day food habits using empirical data from the Malaysian Food Barometer (MFB)...