What are the specialties of Singapore Singapore must eat food inventory

Because of its geographic location and history, Singapore cuisine reflects cultural diversity, including the mingling influences of China, Indonesia, India, Vietnam and the United Kingdom, allowing Singapore's delicacies to leap onto the international scene! Get a few sheets of toilet paper ready to wipe your mouth now and come and see what must-eat food is available in the country of stars!

Exotic food culture in Singapore

1. Meat Bone Tea

"Meat Bone Tea" is known as Singapore's national food, initially, meat bone tea is dock workers in order to replenish energy, with cheap bits and pieces of herbs, spices, boiled pork bones with meat, as a morning meal. The taste of pork bone tea is also divided into "Teochew style" and "Fujian style", Fujian style pork bone tea is famous for its herbal fragrance, which is heavier and darker in color; many people think that pork bone tea is more or less the same as stewed pork ribs with medicines, but Taiwan's stewed pork ribs with medicines are quite heavy in Chinese medicine flavor, which is not suitable to be eaten together with rice or noodles again.

As for Singapore's common meat bone tea is the Teochew school of white soup, white pepper and spices for the soup base, soup color is lighter, focusing on the aroma of pepper and garlic; blanch pork ribs, into the soup stewed to soft, tender taste with a little grease and aroma but not greasy mouth, the soup through the rich white pepper is the most important feature. In fact, meat and bone tea is "soup" rather than "tea", the Taoist way of eating meat and bone soup with rice or with doughnuts to taste, after eating tea to remove the grease, and therefore the name "meat and bone tea".

The meat bone tea.

2. Laksa Noodle

"Laksa" is a Nyonya cuisine originated in the South Seas, and is now one of the representative snacks of Singapore and Malaysia, with a wide variety of flavors, including curry laksa and Katong Laksa, which originated from Katong. Generally, the curry sauce is made of spices with coconut milk to produce a unique rich soup, together with shredded chicken, clams and other ingredients, as well as steamed rice noodles, tastes sweet and spicy, is not to be missed signature flavor.

3. Hainan Chicken Rice

Hainan Chicken Rice originated from Hainan Island, locally known as "Wenchang Chicken Rice", and later spread to the New Malaysia region, becoming a highly recognized cuisine. Hainan chicken rice is not chicken with white rice so simple, just "chicken rice" is quite time-consuming and labor-intensive, the use of Thai fragrant rice with red onion, garlic, ginger after bursting incense, add chicken broth, chicken oil together with steaming, so that the entrance to the rice has a strong taste of chicken broth; chicken thighs cooking is more sophisticated, fresh broiler to low-temperature simmering, so that the meat in the mouth is soft and tender, chicken rice fragrant and tasty, known as the national dish of Singapore.

Singaporeans also pay considerable attention to the sauce and seasoning of the meal, the stores also have a special sauce, in addition to the basic oil and onion sauce, sweet black soy sauce, will also be provided by the kumquat, chicken broth and chili pepper specially tuned orange chili sauce, as well as yellowish ginger sauce, etc.; eat a bite of the original flavor, and then dipped in the sauce, the flavor level is quite rich!

The sauce of Hainan Chicken Rice is also the key to deliciousness.

4. Fried Kuey Teow

Kuey Teow is similar to the Hakka's Kuey Teow, which is a Q-shaped rice snack made from rice. In Singkok, the wide, flat kuey teow is stir-fried with rich ingredients such as bean sprouts, eggs, fish cakes and bacon, and flavored with sweet soy sauce and sambal, which makes it spicy and slightly sweet.

5. Stir-fried turnip cake

Singapore turnip cake will be stir-fried with preserved vegetables, egg and garlic, and the specialty is that the turnip cake will be cut into different sizes with a spatula while stir-fried. The taste is divided into black and white 2 kinds, the former will add black sweet soy sauce, eating sweet, and the egg will be scrambled into the pan; as for the white turnip cake is more salty, the egg is in the pan before the turnip cake on the batter, fried into a burnt egg skin, is the star country special local snacks.

Singapore carrot cake in English is Fried Carrot Cake or Carrot cake, at first glance will think it is carrot cake! (Photo)

6. Muesli shrimp

Traveling to Singapore, in addition to Hainanese chicken, meat bone tea, muesli shrimp is also a must-eat dishes. Who says cereal can only soak milk? This creative cuisine will be the perfect combination of fat fresh shrimp and oatmeal, absolutely in Taiwan can not eat the cuisine! Local practice will be the fresh shrimp deep-fried until golden brown, and then covered with crispy cereal together, without the sauce is very delicious.

7. Chili crab

The unique taste of Singapore chili sauce blended with tomatoes and stir-fried together, despite the name of the chili crab, eat actually not particularly spicy, not only has an appetizing spicy, but also to enhance the sweetness of the taste, with fresh seafood with the unique fresh sweet sea flavor, the local people eat crabs, will also be used in fried buns dipped in the sauce to eat. In 2011, CNN Go ranked this dish as the 35th of the world's top 50 most delicious dishes.

Seafood is expensive, so ask for the price of chili crab in Singapore.

8. Rojak, Rojak

Singapore's traditional salad, in addition to vegetables will be added to the fruit, including pineapple, fritters, cucumbers, bean sprouts, jicama and dried beans and other ingredients, and finally sprinkled with a thick peanut flour and shrimp paste and lemon sauce, eating actually quite heavy. Lo Noi is also very often gradual in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Singapore's specialty salad. (Figure intercepted from the Singapore Tourism Board)

9. Coconut toast

Coconut sauce is a very common dessert sauce in Southeast Asia, coconut milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla leaves and cream blended from the general will be more than with the baked golden crispy bread inlet, sweet and savory very popular with children and adults; can also be used as a cake, bread, the center of the sandwich ingredients. For Singaporeans, a coconut toast, an egg, with a cup of tea or coffee, is a satisfying traditional breakfast.

Coconut toast.

10. Ice cream sandwiches

A slice of thin toast wrapped around a thickly cut square of ice cream makes a delicious walking dessert. Compared to American ice cream and Japanese ice cream, Singapore's "ice brick" has a more solid texture, with common flavors such as vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, and the fruit of the South Seas: durian. Durian lovers must try it!

Ice cream sandwiches are made with food coloring on the toast to make special colors and patterns! (File photo)

11. Jindo

Jindo, also known as Pan Fried Rui, is a traditional dessert that originated from Indonesia and is now popular in Singapore. Made from glutinous rice flour, it is dyed in green strips of spotted orchid leaves, drizzled with coconut milk and sprinkled with palm sugar. The texture is similar to vermicelli, and it is served with coconut sugar syrup, smoothies and ice creams, as well as added to coconut milk for a refreshing drink on a hot day in Singapore.

The local Southeast Asian "vermicelli": luo nao.