Category: Hawker Food
Diversity is always welcomed in every corner of Singapore, especially when it pertains to food. Given how robust the restaurant scene has become, it’s a wonder that more eateries peddling elevated regional flavours hadn’t popped up. But the newest tenant at Pacific Plaza, Small Tables, is here to change that.
Burgers — greatest invention since sliced bread. Sliced bread walked so burgers could fly. And burgers are flying off the shelves everywhere now. We’ve seen some of the best burgers in Singapore inundated with inhuman queues and showered with praise online.
Continue reading “23 Best Burgers in Singapore for a Juicy Indulgent Feast”
Grilled meats belong to a genre of cooking that is almost never associated with hawker centres and for good reason. Even then, it doesn’t take a Michelin-Star restaurant to bang out juicy grilled goodies and Salai by Meatdrop shows that greatness is still achievable in a hawker stall. Continue reading “Salai by Meatdrop”
OG Lemak is a pretty new name on the scene, having only popped up last year at the bustling Newton Food Centre. Still, it garnered plenty of social media hype which made some people scratch their heads — why the hype? Continue reading “OG Lemak”
Hawker franchises are having their moment in the sun right now. A wave of syndication has washed over Singapore — beloved trademarks are propagated to the farthest reaches of the island, all throughout the heartlands. Continue reading “Feng Zhen Lor Mee”
Japanese cuisine is closer to a discipline than just another categorisation of food. Building upon specific skills is time-exhausting and only a select few can claim expertise in certain dishes. For Tonkatsu, not many can contend with Maruhachi in Singapore — despite its hawker dwellings Continue reading “Maruhachi Donburi & Curry”
Ang Mo Kio is not a place you’d normally think to venture out for a food adventure. I actually had the same sentiments — until I discovered Banh Mi Saigon. It’s a short trek through the winding mazes of HDB blocks but you’d feel your efforts rewarded as you edge towards the shops nestling below Ang Mo Kio Block 505. Continue reading “Banh Mi Saigon”
People joke that love for rice is ingrained into our Asian DNA but personally, noodles call out to me more as the staple carb. As far as comfort food goes, not many things beat a piping hot bowl of soupy noodles. And as far as the homely flat sheet noodles go, not many stalls hit as hard as Jiak Song Mee Hoon Kueh. Continue reading “Jiak Song Mee Hoon Kueh”
Chicken rice is one of the most familiar hawker dishes that all Singaporeans grow up with and is an absolutely ubiquitous national treasure. So it’s quite impressive that, in an ocean of chicken rice stalls, Tiong Bahru Hainanese Boneless Chicken Rice managed to be one of the few honoured by the Michelin inspectors. Continue reading “Tiong Bahru Hainanese Boneless Chicken Rice”
Zi Char (literally translated into “cook and fry“) is an unmistakable symbol of the Singapore hawker scene, playing host to countless family gatherings over the decades set to Hor Fun and Chilli Crab. With its ubiquity, it’s worthy of respect when a stall can leave a deep etch on the Zi Char scene as Keng Eng Kee Seafood did. Continue reading “Keng Eng Kee Seafood”
