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Charlene Chow

Charlene Chow

Assistant Editor, ThinkChina
Charlene Chow is the assistant editor of ThinkChina. She was previously with the Singapore Foreign Service where she worked at various desks and was posted abroad. She later joined a food magazine where she produced features, personality profiles and other print and online stories. She enjoys exploring the worlds of people, culture and food.

Articles by Charlene Chow

Culture

Why we eat alone

In urban cities, from Singapore to Beijing to Shanghai, eating alone is increasingly embraced, even if it seems to go against human instinct or some food cultures of communal dining. The pandemic has changed some nuances, but the essence of having a cuppa with yourself, nourishing mind and palate, is here to stay.

Charlene Chow

23 Dec 2022

Culture

Lasting ties: Food for the departed

In life as in death, food brings people together and is a means to commune with one another, as seen in rituals during the seventh lunar month or Hungry Ghost Festival. Perhaps in feeding the spirits of the dearly departed, the unknown and indeed their own, people are reminded that an ending is not the end and that the bond between the living and dead is never broken.

Charlene Chow

12 Aug 2022

Culture

Chicken rice for the Singaporean soul

With Singapore HeritageFest around the corner, ThinkChina's Charlene Chow counts the ways she finds a friend in chicken rice.

Charlene Chow

29 Apr 2022

Culture

Full Circle: Ruminating on the round in Chinese New Year dining

As Chinese around the world celebrate the Lunar New Year, it is almost taken for granted that the round is auspicious and preferred. What is this fascination with the perfect circle, and how does it present itself in the dining traditions and dishes of the season? For ThinkChina's Charlene Chow, the circular jogs the memory of the beautiful things in life.

Charlene Chow

04 Feb 2022