It’s feast fest in July every year, a chance for you to sample the finest of Singapore food. So if you’re in town, join us at the Singapore Food Festival as we celebrate our nation’s gastronomic love affair! Enliven your senses with the different textures, colours, and aromas of Singaporean flavours. And at the same time, you’ll learn about Singapore’s heritage and multi-cultural cuisines through an exciting line-up of culinary classes, workshops and competitions.
Don’t miss these must-try local dishes:
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Hainanese Chicken Rice
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One of Singapore’s flagship dishes, the Hainanese chicken rice is popular among locals and visitors. The wonder of this dish lies in the exactness in the temperature needed to cook the chicken to perfect tenderness, the complexity of fragrant rice cooked in chicken broth, and the special blend of chilli, garlic and ginger that tastefully balances its succulent chicken slices. |
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Char Kway Teow
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The char kway teow is Singapore’s speciality, a hot favourite amongst locals and found in most hawker centres. The dish started off interestingly with humble beginnings as a cheap meal for labourers and has since then progressed into a crowd-puller. It comprises of fried flat rice noodles with dark sauce and pork lard, sprinkled with other ingredients such as cockles, prawns, bean sprouts and eggs. |
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Satay
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The satay is famed both in Singapore and throughout Southeast Asia. It consists of marinated lamb or chicken meat diced and skewered on slim wooden sticks, then charcoal-grilled and dipped into a generous serving of sweet peanut sauce. The dish comes with sliced onions, cucumbers and ketupat (rice bundled in palm leaf). |
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Laksa
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This is a spicy Peranakan dish which has a mix of both Chinese and Malay styles. Comprising of thick white noodles, blanched bean sprouts, sliced fish cake, cockles, prawns, eggs, and mouth-watering gravy soup, laksa makes a great dish anytime of the day. Although easily available in most hawker centres of Singapore, traditional ones are likely to be found in the eastern part of Singapore, particularly the Katong area. |
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Carrot Cake
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The Singapore fried carrot cake is unlike the Western version which is a sweet spiced cake. And far from having carrots within, it comprises of rice flour cakes, with white radish, scrambled eggs, spring onions and chye poh. You can savour this popular dish in two ways. Order the ‘white’ version, which is a slightly charred crusty exterior fried together with chilli, or try the ‘black’ version, which is sweeter and fried with dark soy sauce. |
For food reviews and recommendations, check out Hungrygowhere.com, soshiok.com, Makansutra, or Yum.sg.
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