One of the reasons I love Singapore is that it is easy to travel around / walk around and within 24 hours, you can easily cover the city’s key attractions and a sizable number of great food stalls… which is essentially what I did this recent weekend. I won’t bore you with details on everything I ate (and well, I like to eat every 2nd hour while on holidays) but I will share some delicious highlights.
Fish bee hoon
Fish bee hoon is a Singapore vermicelli noodle soup with fried fish. It was definitely one of the healthiest dishes I had while in Singapore and perfect for my final night there, when I was done with the fried / stir fried / grilled dishes. I had the soup pictured above at a stall in Lau Pa Sat hawker centre, which I’m sure wasn’t even the best possible place to have it (hence why I haven’t included the location in the title), and the soup was amazing. The broth was so light but so well seasoned. The white fish, despite being battered and fried, was also light, not greasy and didn’t taste fishy.
Zhen Zhen Porridge, Maxwell Food Centre
Zhen Zhen is renown for its porridge (congee), a concept I found difficult to understand (after all, it’s just porridge right?) but having tried the porridge at Zhen Zhen, I am now a believer. I had the sliced fish, shredded chicken and century egg porridge but to be honest, the protein toppings were irrelevant – the star of the dish was the porridge itself. Oh man, the thick almost creamy texture of that porridge was a godsend the morning after our flight.
Mutton biryani, Allauddin’s Briyani, Tekka Centre, Little India
About a decade ago, I visited Little India on my first trip to Singapore. It was a very hot day, so that and the fact that I used to be less a foodie when I was younger, meant that I wasn’t particularly interested in Little India. This time around though, I loved loved loved the visit to Little India and the Tekka Centre, the hawker centre adjacent to the MRT station. The mutton biryani from Allauddin’s was served steaming hot from the biryani pot with a boiled egg and a separate bowl of curry sauce. The biryani was amazing – a beautiful blend of spices and delicious tender mutton (not gamey at all!). There was so much rice though – I don’t think it cost more than $2 AUD, and if I had finished all of the rice, I would have been full for the whole day.
Nanyang Old Coffee, Chinatown
Nanyang Old Coffee has the old-school coffee shop feeling which I love. The Nanyang franchise tries to keep traditional coffee alive in Singapore and I knew even before I tasted the coffee that based on the cute classic china (pictured above) that the kopi would be good. It’s definitely worth a try if you’re in the Chinatown area and if, like me, you can’t go a day without coffee.
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Don’t forget to check out my older blogs on Singapore!
- 2018 trip, part 1: https://imhangry.net/2018/01/24/a-weekend-in-singapore-2018-part-1/
- 2017 trip, part 1: https://imhangry.net/2017/04/13/singapore-part-1/
- 2017 trip, part 2: https://imhangry.net/2017/04/16/singapore-part-2/
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