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June 3, 2026Open Access

Consuming Paradise: Fusion Cuisine, Culinary Tourism, and the Construction of Multicultural Hawai'i

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PXPuxin Xia

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Thesis examines how fusion cuisine shapes identity in Hawai'i, suggesting implications for tourism narratives.

Key Points

  • This thesis explores how fusion cuisine in Hawai'i constructs a narrative of multiculturalism that conceals historical inequalities.
  • Conducted digital ethnography analyzing tourism websites and restaurant menus.
  • Utilized discourse analysis on online food media to evaluate cultural representations.
  • Highlighted the visual and sensory aspects of food in constructing local identity.
  • Fusion cuisine creates a simplified image of harmonious multiculturalism for tourists.
  • Culinary representations obscure the realities of settler colonialism and indigenous struggles.
  • The analysis indicates that food practices are involved in the production of colonial imaginaries.

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Puxin Xia (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1fc6cddee9eb8c0dce7b8dhttps://doi.org/10.6082/ezbt8-3wz74
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