Local Food You Must Try 1
Singapore Kopitiam Team | 28 April 2010
Bak Chor Mee | Briyani Rice | Chai Tow Kway | Char Kway Teow | Char Siew Rice | Chicken Rice | Chinese Fried Rice | Hae Mee | Hokkien Mee | Indian Rojak
Bak Chor Mee
What is it:
Bak Chor Mee is a Teochew dish. It is often served with Chinese noodles and a sizable amount pork meats and slices.
Where to buy it:
Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle
Block 466 Crawford Lane #01-12 Singapore 190465
Briyani
What is it:
Originally a Persian dish, Briyani has since been adopted into Indian culture. The rice is usually coloured yellow, from the exotic mix of spices, and served with intensely flavoured curry. The aromatic flavour of this dish is mostly derived from spices such as coriander, cumin, cardamom and cloves.
Where to buy it:
Afghanistan Coffee Shop,
Tampines St 23 Blk 201E
Chai Tow Kway
What is it:
Chai Tow Kuay is a common Teochew dish, which literally means “fried carrot cake”. It is made from rice flour and white radish, and the rice cakes are later fried with chopped preserved radish, garlic, eggs and Chinese fish sauce or soy sauce.
Where to buy it:
Bedok North St 3 Hawker Centre Blk 538
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Char Kway Teow
What is it:
Char Kway Teow literally translates into "stir-fried rice cake strips", and is a popular noodle dish. Flat rice noodles are stir-fried with light and dark soy sauce, chilli, shrimp paste, tamarind juice, prawns, cockles, bean sprouts and Chinese chives.
Where to buy it:
Marine Parade hawker Centre
50A Marine Terrace, Singapore 441050
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Char Siew Rice
What is it:
Char Siew is barbequed pork, flavoured with honey, five-spice powder, fermented tofu, dark soy sauce, hoisin sauce and red food colouring. Sometimes, sherry or rice wine is added to enhance the flavor. It is then served with rice and thick sweet gravy.
Where to buy it:
Tiong Bahru Food Centre
Lim Liak St Blk 84A
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Chicken rice
What is it:
Chicken rice is often considered a “national dish” of Singapore, and consists of tender steamed or crispy roasted chicken and oily flavourful rice. The chicken is boiled in chicken bone broth, which is later made into soup as well. The savoury taste of the rice is enhanced by specially prepared chicken stock.
Where to buy it:
Maxwell Food Centre, Maxwell Road
Singapore
Chinese fried rice
What is it:
Chinese Fried Rice is made by stir-frying rice with eggs, meat, vegetables, light soy sauce, garlic and onion. It is a fluffy, fragrant, simply dish that can be found in almost all Chinese restaurants.
Where to buy it:
2 Lorong Mambong, Holland Village
Singapore 277671
Hae Mee
What is it:
Hae Mee is a noodle soup dish with Hokkien orgins, and literally means “prawn noodles”. It consists of egg noodles boiled in a richly flavoured dark-coloured soup made from prawns, pork slices and fish cake slices. Some stalls add pork ribs as well.
Where to buy it:
Newton Food Court, Newton Circus
Singapore
Hokkien mee
What is it:
Hokkien Mee is sometimes considered the dry version of Hae Mee. It’s a fried noodle dish that is often topped off with vinegar, soy sauce, oil and chilli. It is common to eat it with freshly sliced red chilli soaked in soy sauce.
Where to buy it:
Blk 492, Jurong West St 41
Singapore
Indian rojak
What is it:
Indian Rojak is a traditional fruit and vegetable salad dish, “rojak” meaning mixture in Malay. It contains fried dough fritters, bean curds, boiled potatoes, prawn fritters, hard boiled eggs, bean sprouts, and cucumber mixed with a sweet thick, spicy peanut sauce.
Where to buy it:
S11 Food Court, Tampines Central 1
Singapore 520506
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Singapore Kopitiam Team | 28 April 2010
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