🍽️ Cuisine
Singaporean cuisine is a hawker paradise—Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Peranakan fused into unique dishes.
Chilli Crab
National Dish
Mud crab in sweet-spicy tomato sauce—Singapore's signature.
Ingredients: 1 large mud crab, For sauce: chilies, tomato sauce, egg, sugar, vinegar, Garlic, ginger, Mantou buns for dipping.
Preparation: Cleane and chop crab. Fry garlic and ginger. Add crab, stir-fry. Then add sauce ingredients, simmer. Stir in beaten egg at end. Serve with mantou to mop up sauce.
💡 The sauce is the star—you need mantou buns to finish it.
Laksa
Spicy Coconut Noodles
Rich coconut curry soup with noodles—Peranakan comfort food.
Ingredients: Rice noodles, Laksa paste (dried shrimp, chilies, lemongrass, galangal), Coconut milk, Shrimp, fish cake, tofu puffs, Bean sprouts, laksa leaves.
Preparation: Fry laksa paste until fragrant. Add stock and coconut milk. Simmer with proteins. Then cook noodles separately. Assemble in bowl. Finally, garnish with laksa leaves.
💡 Laksa leaves (daun kesum) are essential for authentic flavor.
Hainanese Chicken Rice
National Dish
Poached chicken with fragrant rice—simple perfection.
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken, Ginger, garlic, pandan, For rice: chicken fat, garlic, chicken stock, Chili sauce, ginger sauce, dark soy.
Preparation: Poach chicken gently in aromatic water. Ice bath to tighten skin. Cook rice in chicken fat and stock. Then slice chicken, serve with rice. Three sauces: chili, ginger, sweet soy. Add cucumber and soup.
💡 The rice absorbs chicken flavor—that's the key.
