What's your favourite restaurant/place to eat Singapore traditional/famous dish?

• hehe...as i'm goin to Singapore soon, i would like to try it's good food ^^, prefer the Cheap-famous delicious food-shop, please tell me the name of the shop/restaurant , and your favourite/famous food in that shop ^^, also the address :D. ~also want to know bout good Singapore traditional food-shop, like Carrot Cake, etc~ Do you know where i can find good teh tarik, and Arab/Indian pancake which is eaten with curry? or a bread named long-john..or something sounds like that, i saw it on TV Travelling isn't complete without tasting the traditional dish of Spore ^^ ~Sorry for my poor english b4 :p~

• Answer:

  There are many traditional dishes in SG. It's usually a mixture of different ethnic groups. I'll list down a few places that you can try below . Of course, all these foods can be found in most hawker centres in SG. 1. chicken rice - It's all in the rice; fragrant and chewy. Shao Kee Chicken Rice (02-25 Hong Lim Market & Food Centre, Blk 531A Upper Cross St) 2. Pork Rib Soup - Like Chicken Rice, it's all in the soup. Got to have herbal undertones. Pork should fall off the ribs. Ng Ah Sio Pork Ribs Eating House (No. 7 Keppel Road #01-05/07 PSA Tanjong Pagar Complex) 3. Roti Prata - A fried dough pancake. Goes well with curry. Also try the Murtabak (a fried dough pancake with meat, eggs and oinions stuffed inside it. A beefed-up version of the Taiwanese Oinion pancake). We affectionately call these places "Prata shops" Al-Jilani Restaurant (127 Bencoolen St) 4. Carrot Cake - I like the black version. It's a little sweeter. Food Street Carrot Cake (Stall 4, Chinatown food st, smith st) 5. Fish Head curry - It's a big fish head floating in pot of a curry. Usually served in Indian restaurants. Try the Masala chicken, Dhaal. Go with friends. The Banana Leaf Apolo (Serangoon Road) (48 Serangoon Road #01-32 Little India Arcade) 6. Laksa - White noodles smoothered with spicy coconut gravy. Has cockles and other ingredients with it. The measure its taste is in the gravy: rich and almost cloying. Sungai Road Laksa (#01-00 Blk 27 Jalan Berseh). Katong Laksa in Katong. 7. Drinks - Teh Tarik can be found most Indian restaurants / prata shops. Also try Milo Dinosaur (Milo with milo powder on top of it. Garuanteed sugar rush), Kopi/Teh-Cino (the milk and teh/kopi floats on top of each other. Like watching a lava lamp) 8. Nasi Padang - Like economic rice (i.e. Chai Fan) but with an Indonesian bent. Try the beef rendang. Warung M. Nasir (Killiney Road) (Not cheap though. about $5 - $6 / meal) There are other places to try Nasi Padang. 9. Nonya food - Ehhh... Sorry. I'm sorely lacking in this area. But Katong Village (east of Singapore) is said to have some superb Nonya food. Ivin's (Binjal Park, Bukit Timah) Try the hawker centres that were mentioned by the other posters. If you're in Tanjong Pagar area for lunch, Maxwell Market / Amoy Street food center is always a good bet. Tips: 1. Bring friends. Easier to sample many things at once. 2. Buy a copy of Makansutra (guide to local hawker food) from a bookshop (SGD 10 / guide). There are probably other food guides as well but Makansutra is one of the more famous. Enjoy.