Singapore Local Food

1. Fried carrot cake

Little cubes of rice flour and radish rapidly fried to crispy perfection. The black is sweeter than the wide variety.

2. Bak Kuk Teh

A herbal pork-based soup chock full of pork ribs, garlic, and spices.

3. Chicken rice

Silky smooth poached chicken on top of fluffy rice infused with chicken stock – a Singapore signature.

4. Rojak

Quite simple, it’s an Asian salad. The Chinese version is heavy on fresh fruits and vegetables; the Indian variety is a mixture of deep fries fritters.

5. Roti Prata

Flaky on the outside, deliciously elastic on the inside. Fill it with anything from eggs to onions to even strawberries, and dip away in dhal and curries.

6. Chilli crab and black pepper crab

Crabs cooked in a tangy, spicy sauce of sweet and sour. The black pepper version is smoking hot – and equally gratifying.

7. Char Kway Teow

A heady mixture of flat rice noodles, eggs, prawns, and cockles. A near perfect balancing act of sweet, salty, crunchy, and chewy.

8. Laksa

In a robust spicy gravy, smooth rice noodles are topped with prawns and cockles to produce a sensational curry based dish.

9. Fish head curry

Large, meatly fish heads stewed to tender perfection in a tamarind-based curry sauce, and surrounded by vegetables.

10. Satay

Succulent strips of beef, mutton, chicken and pork skewed, grilled, and complemented by cubes of rice lontong  and a spicy peanut sauce.