Singaporean Cuisine?

Question

I am from Singapore and just wanted to know how many people here are familiar with our delicious cuisine or have ever tried it? It is a wonderful mix of Malay, Chinese, Indian, Indonesian....

What is your favorite recipe or dish?

Answer 1

i love Singaporean food. especially Singapore fried rice

Answer 2

For vegetarian food, besides restaurants which would be more expensive, there are a few kinds of Chinese foodstalls in Singapore's foodcourts (usually in shopping malls) or hawker centers & coffeeshops (all over Singapore, but concentrated in the heartland) where you can find plenty of veggies at reasonable prices (you'll save money compared to the meat eaters!).

1. Yong Tau Foo (Niang Dou Fu) - you'll see a wide display of various raw & cooked ingredients: Many types of veggies (leafy greens, beansprouts, mushrooms, tomatoes, bittergourd, carrot, broccoli etc), fish/seafood balls, different tofu products, deepfried items etc. You take a bowl & pick your desired ingredients (if in doubt ask what that item is made of) and have them boiled with or without noodles. There's various kinds of noodles to choose from, you can have all the stuff served together in soup or have the soup separated. Even with no meat & eggs, you can have a whopping serving. For noodles, suggest to stick to white ones like kway teow (flat noodles) as yellow noodles might be egg noodles.

2. Chap Chye (literally mixed veggies) or Cooked Food stalls - you'll see many serving containers with a wide range of different homestyle dishes already cooked. There'll definitely be a number of stir-fried veggie dishes & tofu dishes, just indicate what you want to be served with or without rice. This is a good & cheap way to eat real Chinese homestyle dishes, short of getting an invitation to a Chinese home.

3. Zhi Char stalls (not commonly encountered by tourists as mostly in the heartland coffeeshops) - The difference with Chap Chye stalls is that dishes are already cooked & just being warmed in Chap Chye stalls, while dishes are freshly cooked at Zhi Char stalls. It's just like ordering from a menu in a restaurant, so there's definitely veggie dishes available. Usually more advisable for groups instead of a single person.

There's also the Malay equivalent of Chap Chye stalls called Nasi Padang (but not if you can't take spicy food) and the Indian vegetarian restaurants. Some other vegetarian or meatless hawker dishes you can try: popiah (specify with no hardboiled egg added), carrot cake fried with dark soy sauce (specify with no egg), rojak, plain roti prata with veggie curry etc. Don't miss the desserts, beverages & snacks: deepfried banana fritters, sweetened soyabean curd & milk, fresh sugarcane juice, chendol, bubor cha cha, pulot hitam, various nonya kuehs, peanut pancake, vast array of fresh tropical fruits etc. There's plenty of choices for non-meat eaters :)

As for my favourite Singaporean food, they include: satay, fried Hokkien noodles, char kway teow, roti prata, fishhead curry, Hainanese & roasted chicken rice, braised duck with yam rice, yong tau foo, ngoh hiang, Chinese mutton soup, kway chap, nasi lemak, mee siam, oyster omelette, fried carrot cake, Teochew porridge, satay beehoon, ba ku teh etc etc etc. Sigh, so much food, so little space (in my stomach)!

Answer 3

hmm i can't say im that familiar. i only know 2 dishes and both i adore equally. i bulk buy the sauce sachets at my local chinese store :) laksa coconut curry noodles and hainanese chicken rice. droool

Answer 4

Yes! I love Singapore and it's amazing cusine. I am also a vegetarian, and I found the choice for meatless dishes incredible! The best place I have ever visited for veggie food without a doubt. Not sure where Andromedan_Ambassador went, but he missed out big time. My Auntie took me to many great veggie restaurants where they served Mock meat dishes in the style of every type of meat.

I love Gado-gado, Bee-hoon, Rojak, Nasi-goreng, Singapore noodles, Kaya on toast, Chai tow kway...(which I'd love a recipe for if you have one!!) .oh my gosh the list is endless!!

Answer 5

My brother lives in Singapore and I love to visit him, the food is fantastic.  It is a unique mix of various cultures.  I love all the noodles dishes and the hawker stalls.  Cant wait to go back!

I esp like the Indian versions of rojak, nasi biryani, thosai, mee goreng, kangkung, bee hoon, roti prata....

Answer 6

Chili crab, Nonya chicken, sate

Answer 7

I love Singapore food, and always have a wonderful time eating when there, the food courts and restaurants are fantastic.

Unfortunately now live in a city without and Sing food, so can't wait for my next visit- chicken curry, chili crab, sates and the noodles all so good and cheap

Answer 8

Well, I don't eat meat or eggs so it was difficult for me to find a dish to eat (I have visited Singapore), so I ended up eating at Little India every day. If you could recommend some dishes, that would be greatly appreciated! Jurong bird park was my favorite place.