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Hungry Ghost Festival: Caterers launch delivery menus and frozen food; getai performers and fans go online
Caterers launch delivery menus and frozen items for the seventh lunar month, while getai performers and fans head online
Open-air banquets with live auctions - a staple of the Hungry Ghost Festival - are conspicuously missing this year. But caterers are still serving up food - for both the dead and living - in the form of mini buffets, bento meals and packed frozen cooked food.
Shi Cheng Ba Hai Gong temple in Tampines, for instance, ordered 85 sets of frozen food items for use as offerings to the dead during its prayer service recently.
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on September 13, 2020, with the headline Hungry Ghost Festival: Caterers launch delivery menus and frozen food. Subscribe
