Fukienese

The dancers included representatives of the island’s aboriginal non-Chinese minority, of the Fukienese, Cantonese, and Hakka migrants from the mainland who took over the lowlands long ago, and of the KMT mainlanders who came in at the end of the second world war.

Rooms are named with Fukienese surnames like “Chen” and “Huang”; employees don traditional Chinese cheongsams.

Naming it for the city-state’s Fukienese people, who hailed from Amoy, China, the company wove in Chinese-themed detailing throughout the hotel.

“There is more spontaneity, joy, and warmth in Singapore than we are given credit for,” he says, noting that his favorite places to eat include Wild Rocket and the Tiong Bahru Market, a hawker center near the city center that is packed with dozens of stalls serving fantastic dishes like Fukienese prawn noodles and chwee kway, a classic breakfast dish of steamed rice cake topped with minced preserved radishes and slathered with chili sauce.

The Nationalists crowd the island, they have an air of superiority, they find it hard to understand the Fukienese dialect the Formosans speak, and Formosans dislike having to learn Mandarin just a few years after having to learn Japanese.