15 Jul, 2021
Possibly one of the national dishes of Singapore, one of the most beloved special family dishes and one of the famous foods when you’re visiting as well. This is the combination of hard-shell crabs, semi-thick gravy and tomato chilli base, and eggs. The source is not all that spicy despite its name but its sauce is pretty unique. It is tastier if you eat it with bread or fried buns!
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If you want to try the mixture of Chinese and Malay flavors all in a single bowl, you should definitely try this dish. There is a different kind of laksa, but the basic recipe consists of starch in a bowl of laksa, gravy or curry, some pieces of protein, and vegetables and herbs. You can try Asam Laksa, Curry Laksa, or Katong Laksa.
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Bak Kut Teh is popular throughout Singapore and Malaysia with Chinese origins, meaning pork bone tea in English. Pork ribs, garlic, salt, and white pepper are boiled in water until the pork becomes tender and other ingredients are mingled into the pork bones in order to create a comfortingly flavorful soup. Rice and often braised tofu and preserved mustard green, hot tea is served with Bak Kut Teh.
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Hokkien Mee is one of the most popular fried noodle hawker dishes in Singapore which features a combination of yellow egg noodles, white fried rice noodles, seafood, and bean sprouts. According to the customers’ requirements, Hokkien Mee is making a drier or with a gravy sauce and served with some sambal chilli sauce.
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Although it is just a simple mixture of boiled chicken, rice, and sauce, this Chicken rice ranks as one of the most well-known and beloved dishes to eat in Singapore. This is special because the rice is cooked with chicken stock, ginger, garlic, and pandan leaves as well as served with red chilli, often sweet dark soy sauce.
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Char Kway Teow is actually fried rice cake strips, one of the signature local favorites. This is a dish of flat rice noodles, shrimp paste, sweet dark sauce, pork lard, stir-fried with egg, chilli, bean sprout, Chinese sausage, and cockles. Char Kway Teow takes some serious skills from chefs by cooking at a high temperature to make the dish smokier.
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This is not a Western dessert, it is just one of the standard and common Singapore dishes which you can find at every food centre throughout the city. Despite its name, it does not contain any carrots instead of containing rice cakes, white radish, and eggs. Most popular version in Singapore though is the chopped up version with radish cake cubes.
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One of the most popular noodle dishes you must try in Singapore was influenced by Hong Kong cuisine. The familiar mixture of wanton dumplings filled with pork, egg noodles, and some small boiled vegetables with a small bowl of soup on the side. The wanton dumplings may be either deep-fried or moisture dumplings. There are two types of Wanton Mee noodle, the spicy type with chilli whereas the non-spicy version with tomato sauce is suitable for children.
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Yet another beloved dish influenced by South India, China, and Malaysia is Fish Head Curry. Variants consist of a huge fish head and cooked vegetable in a curry which has an added tinge of sourness from tamarind fruit and served with rice or bread. Usually accompanied by a glass of local lime juice or “calamansi”.
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This is a Chinese dessert made with bean curd tofu, sugar syrup, grass jelly, or soya bean milk. There are different types of Tau Huay with different flavors such as mango, melon, or sesame and it can be eaten hot or cold.
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