Hi! I'm Ryan Kueh, a Singapore-based cultural researcher and author of the bestselling From Streets to Stalls: The History and Evolution of Hawking and Hawker Centres in Singapore (2024). I am also the co-editor of Ten Year Series: The Singaporean Examination (2025), an SG60 anthology of essays from Singaporeans everywhere.

I enjoy dabbling in a wide variety of areas, with a focus on the intersectionalities of consumption culture and history, and a secondary interest in international affairs and politics.

A third book is currently underway — exploring more hawker culture and Nanyang Chinese food culture, its evolution, and origins.

I hold a master's degree from Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar, and completed my bachelor's at Yale–NUS College reading Politics, Philosophy, Economics (PPE) and History.

In the day from "9 to 5" (probably longer, much to the chagrin of my wife), I work at Bain & Company. On my off days, you can catch me kopi hopping somewhere.