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Cammy Yiu

A-Link Plus
Ends Oct 31
You are what you freeze -  that  is what a group of students from the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University discovered eight years ago when on a trip to Singapore.  Led by teacher  Siu King-chung, they went  around several households in the Lion City and took pictures of the contents of people's refrigerators.
'We started to have a sense that there was a lifestyle issue related to the contents of a refrigerator. It was a way to look into people's daily lives,' says Siu, who is also a co-founding member of the Community  Museum Project.
The exercise has since been continued locally by Howard Chan  Pui-hoe  and Tse Pak-chai,  also of the Community Museum Project. Results of their survey conducted in Hong Kong in collaboration with Oxfam are  on show at A-Link Plus in You Are What You Freeze - Food Storage and Our Everyday Life.
The findings on food usage and storage   were derived from visits to  more than  20 households from a select spectrum of social-economic backgrounds. The exhibit  provides a visual image of life in Hong Kong as seen through the contents of a fridge.
The research for You Are What You Freeze was 'exhaustive', Siu says. Families were chosen by Reviewing CSSA Alliance who, with  its strong community involvement, was critical  in helping to gain entry to homes.
Each item was taken out of the fridge, recorded and photographed. This process took from several hours to a full day. A  record was made of the foods from each household and a statistical picture emerged which provided the basis for a fuller understanding of life in Hong Kong.
Chan says the research provided some astonishing discoveries, including the finding of foods considered so precious they  had been in some fridges for  two decades.  He believes  the exhibit will provide valuable insights and encourages the public to examine  the results and the methodology  of the research.
'Everyone has a refrigerator at home.' he says.
'The contents of the refrigerator is an unconscious reflection of our lifestyle. Perhaps now people will reflect more about their own.'
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You Are What  You Freeze