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Halloween Bites: 5 local dishes to freak you out
Care for some pigs innards? How about suckling on a bone marrow or two? Singapore Kopitiam food blogger Raj suggests 5 hellishly unique local dishes for your Halloween menu.
Pumpkins are so passé, and anyway, how can an orange vegetable even be scary? This Halloween, have some local fare that will scare your pants off you. Tulang Crime scene investigators will feel right at home devouring this local delicacy. Mutton bones cooked in a tomato-based spicy sauce, its blood-red gravy has been enough to put off many, even before attempting to taste it. This Halloween, dress up in white and head to the nearest hawker centre that serves sup tulang and do not hold...
Ramadan Bazaar at Geylang Serai
The Ramadan Bazaar at Geylang Serai, held during the holy month of Ramadan, is a food paradise brimming with many delicious things to eat. Resident blogger Raj treks down to the bazaar and samples some of the food on offer.
Once a year, Geylang Serai transforms into an exciting visual spectacle. Illuminated by an array of lights and festive songs, this sleepy enclave in Singapore springs to life in a whirlwind of noise and activity. This is often accompanied by the wafting smells of barbecued meats, kebabs and traditional pastries -- just a sample of the food items available here. The festival atmosphere, evergreen festive songs harkens many back to their childhood days. Event Information The Geylang...
Luscious Laksa Loving
Another favourite of Singaporeans, laksa is known for its spicy and rich flavour. Like many local foods, Laksa comes in a multitude of variations. Malaysian, states like Johor, Kelantan, Sarawak and Penang each have their own take of it. All are served in thick spicy-rich coconut gravy with the exception of the Penang version, which has a tart and sour zing. Cooks specializing in Penang-type laksa also use a special ingredient -- flaked fish -- to add a bit more chunkiness into the gravy. In...
Heady Delight
When I was a kid, my father would sometimes order a take-away of the chicken masala from either Banana Leaf Apollo or Muthu’s Curry, two restaurants famous for Indian delicacies, and in particular, fish head curry. He would tell stories about how mainly non-Indians and tourists would be the ones consuming it, making a huge mess on their banana leaves when they are done. This gave me the impression that it was more of a gimmick rather than serious food. It just didn’t seem logical to me at...
Xiao long baos dumplings; delicious and divine
My late exposure to these lovely morsels of flavour is quite unfortunate, having been deprived of something that is now a monthly staple in my food calendar. It was actually an expatriate friend who introduced me to these delightful little dumplings as he too has them on a regular basis as it’s rather pricy in his home country. As a child, I loved dim sum but never saw xiao long baos served in the dim sum restaurants of Singapore. For a while, I thought no one in my family knew that such an...
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