Singapore best eats — 9+ best food to try in Singapore & food must eat in Singapore

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Enjoy soy sauce chicken with rice at Hawker Chan – Singapore Michelin star first time ever food stand at an extremely cheap price (#best food to try in singapore)

Since receiving a Michelin star, you come here anytime and you will see people lining up in front of the stall until it closes. The street food vendor’s famous dish is chicken rice with black soy sauce. The special thing in the plate of chicken rice, which costs only $8 SGD (dubbed as the cheapest Michelin-starred eatery in the world), is that the chicken is roasted with a glossy brown skin, but the meat is still very tender inside, and the rice is filled with black soy sauce and served with soft stewed salted peanuts, add a little spicy chili sauce, just want to order more plates.

The cutest super chef in the world. The owner is very lovely and enthusiastic. There is a legend that when the shop closed to organize a celebration party for the staff, the owner noticed two tourists lining up and ran to open the door to invite them in and invite them to eat together. Making it even more popular for tourists and locals alike.

However, this dish has quite a lot of spices, especially black soy sauce and salted peanuts, so the taste will be relatively strong. For those of you who eat it for the first time or if you prefer a light taste, you will find this dish quite salty. However, in addition to the typical chicken rice dish, the restaurant also serves noodles and hor fun (the noodles are similar to pho but the noodles are large and flat, softer than pho noodles) which are also very delectable.

Address: 02-127 Chinatown Complex and 78 Smith Street.
Opening hours: from 10am-9pm daily

Fried porridge at Royal J’s Seafood – One-of-a-kind dish in Singapore (#best food to try in singapore)

Wow, you didn’t read it wrong, fried porridge, ice cream can be fried why not for porridge, right?!

Hearing the name is a bit wrong, this is a super delicious dish and the special thing is that there is only one place selling this dish in the whole country of Singapore. While most restaurants cook thin white porridge, Royal J’s Seafood literally “fried” porridge.

Porridge is cooked from super delicious Japanese rice, bone broth and homemade black soy sauce to create a thick, fatty, extremely fragrant and rich fried porridge. Then, the chef will bring porridge to fry with a lot of ingredients such as dried shrimp, taro, shredded crab meat, dried fish, dried onions and green onions. In addition, the shop also has fried squid with salted egg, one bite will make you want to eat more because it’s so tasty. Crispy roasted pork in this restaurant is also very good.

The price is reasonable for a small pot of fried porridge for 6 – 10 SGD, the fried squid with salted egg is extremely hot, so the price is a bit high for 28 SGD, the plate is quite big. Should go in a crowd of about 4, 5 people and order 4 dishes, the average person is about 10 SGD.

Address: 30 Foch Rd, #01-02, Singapore 209276 (Dynasty Fried Porridge)
Hours: 11:30AM–11:30PM

Nasi Lemak at Ponggol Nasi Lemak Centre (#best food to eat in singapore)

Nasi Lemak is an addictive dish in Singapore. Rice cooked with coconut water and pandan leaves is both fragrant and fatty. There are fried chicken and otah (grilled fish cake rolls with banana leaves), peanuts, roasted dried small fish and a spoonful of special chili sauce, both to eat and smell in. This dish is similar to sticky rice in Vietnam.

My favorite restaurant is Ponggol Nasi Lemak Center at Tanjong Katong road. Side dishes at this restaurant are quite diverse: otah, omelet, super delicious roasted peanuts and especially crunchy fried stick beans with small shrimp. The best is… chili sauce. Chili sauce is made very elaborately (not the type of bottled chili sauce), chili, onion, garlic, ginger are minced, stir-fried, put a little dried fish and add typical spices of the Malay people makes the taste rich, spicy but sweet.

The prices at Ponggol are a BIG PLUS POINT, only $4-8 a plate depending on the side dish you order.

Address: 238 Tanjong Katong Rd, Singapore 437026
Hours: 4:30–11:30PM/Thursday: Closed

Roti John at Raimah Eating House (#food must eat in singapore)

This is an original Indian dish, both delicious and cheap, and very satisfied with the stomach. The most typical is Roti John (not Roti Prata, my friends). Roti means bread, John is the name of a Western man who often eats bread. Just kidding, I’m not sure if Mr. John eats bread or not, but Singaporeans are very fond of this dish.

Roti John is actually a very simple dish, a whole loaf of baguettes cut lengthwise, fried until golden brown with minced lamb or goat (mutton), with lots of onions and peppers, and finally drizzled with homemade super fat ketchup and mayonnaise. There are also many shops that keep a separate plate of mayoinese for you.

Crispy bread with mutton flavored with curry (seasoned to suit the taste of Singaporeans) with sweet onions, served with hot chili sauce, sipping the tarik (Malay’s milk tea), I have to say there is nothing better than that.

The price of a portion of Roti John is only $3-5, Teh Tarik (milk tea) is $1.5.

Address: 56 Jln Kembangan, Singapore 419120 (Indian restaurant behind CenterPoint building, Orchard Road, near Concorn Hotel)
Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday: Open 24 hours/Thursday, Friday: 7AM–12AM/Sunday: Closed

Singaporean fried rice noodle (Char Kuay Toew) (#food must try in singapore)

Fried rice noodle is stir-fried on a hot wok with high heat, adding bean sprouts, sausages, eggs, oysters, usually clams with fish sauce and black sauce. The secret is to make a delicious plate of char kuay teow is that the wok must be very hot so that the noodle is soft but not crushed. And there must be fish sauce to wake up the smell of a corner of the restaurant.

Talk a little more about the “booking” culture of Singaporeans. When you walk into a hawker center (non-air-conditioned dining area, cheaper price) or food junction (air-conditioned dining area) and see many tables with a tissue pack, that spot is already occupied. Please. You just have to find another seat, especially during rush hour when office workers come out for lunch, you will find a whole bunch of tissues on the dining table.

Address: 16 Bedok South Road, #01-41, Pasar 16@Bedok, Singapore 460016
Opening hours: 10:30am to 4:45pm from Tuesday to Saturday

Bak kut teh at Song Fa Bak Kut Teh (#most popular food in singapore)

Bak kut teh (Pork bone tea soup (Pork Ribs Tea)). A dish originating from Chaozhou, is pork ribs stewed until tender in a broth with whole cloves of garlic, peppercorn and quite a few special spices of the Chinese. Served with stewed salted peanuts and pickles. To know if you eat the right Bak kut teh delicious or not depends a lot on the taste of the broth, the broth must be fragrant with pepper and garlic flavor, have a mild spicy taste but not too strong, the pork ribs are soft but not too friable and must be soaked in spices.

On a rainy day (Singapore has up to 6 months of rain every day, so people here love this dish). Sip a cup of soup with hot rice to wake up the body and soul. The feeling of pleasant pleasure is unmistakable. Not only delicious, but this dish contains a lot of energy and protein. Therefore, this dish can be considered as a nutritious dish.

Address: 133 New Bridge Rd, #01-04, Singapore 059413
Hours: 11AM–9PM/Friday, Saturday: 11AM–9:30PM/Sunday: 10:30AM–9PM

Dim sum at Dim Sum Wen Dao Shi (#best food in singapore)

Dim sum is famous here because it is both delicious and cheap. This place also makes Din Tai Fung or Tim Ho Wan (2 famous dim sum restaurant chains) also be wary. Come here, you should try the delicious and the signature Siu Mai (Shumai – Chinese Steamed Dumplings), shrimp dumplings. Hot rice noodle rolls in Chinese style is soft and hot with a little bit of shrimp meat. Or char siu meat, fried dumplings served with crab sauce (though I can’t see the crab’s shadow, LOL). In general, eating delicious to full and delectable, 7 to 8 dishes for 2 people is only 30 dollars.

Address: 126 Sims Ave, Singapore 387449
Hours: Open 24 hours

Sambal Stingray

Sambal is present in many dishes in Singapore, mainly from the people of Malay origin. You should eat this dish at East Cost Park, right next to the sea. There is a dining area with all kinds of dishes. From crab, frog to grilled stingray, chicken rice, skewers, you can choose and drink. Next to it is an area for fishing, cycling, roller skating along the cool sea.

All kinds of Kueh in Bengawan Solo

These are traditional cakes (usually steamed cakes) of the people of Singapore. Cake originated from Malaysia. With the main ingredients are always coconut milk, coconut water, pandan leaves, jaggery, glutinous rice flour. Thanks to these ingredients that make the cakes always have a mild aroma and easy to eat.

You should try Kueh Lapis (thousand-layer cake), Kueh Binka Ubi (steamed cassava cake), Kueh Kosui (cake made mainly from jaggery with glutinous rice flour, topped with fresh shredded coconut). Kueh Salat (a cake with a layer of steamed glutinous rice and a layer of steamed milk eggs with coconut milk and pandan leaves, extremely delicious and fatty), Yam Talam (also a double layer cake with a layer of fatty coconut milk and one layer is purple potatoes cooked with milk and coconut)…

You can head to the Bengawang Solo chain to enjoy a wide variety of Kueh, a $1.2 piece.

Laksa noodle soup (spicy coconut noodle soup) at 328 Katong Laksa

Laksa is a relatively popular noodle soup. In which, most commonly found in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia. However, each country will have its own way of preparing. The most famous laksa noodle soup in Singapore is katong laksa. Big noodles (like Hue beef noodle soup in Vietnam) are cooked with a spicy broth. Laksa is flavored with coconut milk and dried shrimp, topped with ingredients like blood cockles, shrimp and fish cakes. Especially, the noodles are cut into small pieces, so you can completely eat this dish without touching chopsticks.

Address: 51 E Coast Rd, Singapore 428770
Hours: 9:30AM–9:30PM

Last words: Remember to taste all of the above dishes when you come to Singapore, you won’t regret it.

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