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- Good morning cuties!
Hello to you from China Town here in Singapore.
In today's video we're gonna get very very delicious.
We're gonna have a Michelin hawker stall experience.
We're gonna check out stalls and try foods
that have been awarded Michelin recognition.
Now one of the stall actually has one Michelin star
and the three other was awarded the
Michelin Bib Gourmand award
or is it gourmand.
Gourmand just sounds so much more fancier.
It is basically award for restaurants
that serve hight quality food at a very low price.
So high quality an cheap.
Yes I'm there, Herro, Herro.
I'm here.
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Let's go.
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And we are starting...
La da da da da da da da.
Whoa, you guys in my hands
we have a Michelin recommended curry puff
and this is interesting because
one of the puff is sardine puff.
So there's sardines inside.
It's been many many years
since I've eaten anything with sardines in it.
In fact, I'm not sure when was the last time
I even saw a sardine.
Okay, I have two puffs right here.
I got their black pepper chicken puff
and I also got their sardine puff.
It's freshly made.
You see them kind of molding the dough
and putting in the filling right there
and right away you can see how flaky it is
and it's so delicate cause in my hands
I feel like it's going to tore apart already.
Oh man, okay, let's see what's inside.
Whoa, say what.
Looks like some type of soy sauce, sticky.
It looks like there's some mushroom in there as well.
The outer layer literally just press into it
and it just crisp and flakes off it's insane.
Alright lets bite into it.
I can not wait.
Mmm, wow.
Holy smokes that's good.
This is their black pepper chicken puff
and it's just this beautiful crispy coating.
It's just amazing and the inside peppery.
Really really peppery.
Wow.
I'm quite intrigued to see how
the sardine one will taste like.
How do you make sardine super delicious?
Let's see.
Oh my goodness.
Opening this up and see...
Oh, check out that color you guys.
It's got a brownish color that I wasn't expecting.
For some reason I was thinking it was gonna be
more of a dark silvery filling.
Let's pull out, is this onion?
Oh you guys, look at this.
This is a piece of sardine sauce inside.
Oh wait that's onion.
Wait is that onion?
Okay, it looks like they might have mashed up
the sardine pretty well
so it's really mashed up in there in this filling.
Here we go.
Crispy sardine puff, take me to heaven.
Oh wow.
What?
This is incredibly delicious in the most unexpected way.
I thought I would taste a lot of that raw fishy taste
that might come with sardine
but all I taste in this is flavor and savoriness.
This one's got such a kick.
It gets real spicy.
The other one was peppery.
You know, just lightly peppery.
This one is real spicy and check it out
there's some pieces of red pepper in there.
Look at that.
It's actually quite a huge piece.
So the texture of the sardine taste like tuna.
It's as if you made a mayo tuna spread
and you put it between, you know, two bread,
that kind of filling.
That's what this texture tastes like
but this is much spicer.
Much more season with onions
and whatever goodness they've put in here.
Wow.
This is something else.
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This is what they call a Singaporean ramen.
So it's got all of the best ingredients.
I can already see that they have samba on the side.
They have prome in there.
They have all of the good flavors
that you'll be able to taste here in Singapore.
I can not believe something so aesthetically pleasing
is available here at this hawker stall.
I mean this looks like a restaurant quality ramen.
If you were to go to New York and get something like this
it would probably be 20 dollar usd.
This right here is only nine Singaporean dollar.
That's crazy for all these ingredients, insane.
I want you guys to see is these giant pieces of char siu.
Look at that.
This is huge.
My gosh, I cannot believe it.
Oh wow.
So much, so much savory flavor.
It's almost got a savory miso kick to it.
Delicious.
On top, look at that gorgeous egg.
This is some restaurant quality food.
This is insane.
Oh my gosh the egg yolk is just dripping
it looks insane.
Next up I want to show you guys these huge pieces of wonton.
Look how big they are, they are just bursting with filling.
Say goodbye to this.
Oh my, wow.
That dough, super soft, melt in your mouth soft.
That filling, beautiful pork, beautiful shrimp pieces.
Wow, it's a little bite of heaven right here.
Holy smokes.
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Good, good bites.
Oh, slurp into it.
(Slurping)
Mmm (slurping) yeah.
Have you guys ever had dried shrimp paste?
It's a much of a darker color.
This is what this tastes like.
It's very savory.
It's not spicy at all
and it coats the noodles incredibly well.
This noodle is coated in sauce.
There's not any soup.
It's not what you think of when you think of ramen.
It's more like a dry noodle dish
but boy it is really flavorful.
It's a little bit salty the way Japanese ramen is.
You know, where the miso soup
or the soy sauce soup is very salty.
What I'm loving about this dish
really is just the bounce in the noodles.
It's so springy that when you chew into it it's not soft.
It's not dissolvable.
You actually can chew each thread of noodles
and it's just a wonderful bite.
Mmm.
Wow.
The last thing I want to try is this item.
There's layers and layers of crispy potato outside of it.
Inside is shrimp filling.
A crispy shrimp won ton, lets go.
Wow.
That's a good snack.
It looks like a shrimp cake inside
with bits and pieces of shrimp
and look at this crispy outer layer.
Oh, so good, so good.
(crunching)
Wow.
They also gave us a side of soup.
Whoa, super flavorful pork broth.
I'm gonna dump a little bit into my noodles
just to kind of moist is up a little bit.
See now the noodles are nice and slippery
and I think it's not gonna be as salty as before
which is gonna be good.
(slurping)
Mmm,that is really good.
I am shocked this is at just a hawker center.
This is delicious.
Everyone who works around this hawker center,
you guys are so lucky there is such good food here.
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Alright you guys, the next item of the stalls awarded
the Michelin Bib award, this is bahru hainanese rice
and you guys know how I feel about sticky rice,
I love it.
I love the chew of the rice.
I just love when they put salted egg in
which I see right here.
I'm trying to see, you know, what really makes this so good
and makes this so special
because I'm kind of a sticky rice dumpling connoisseur.
I awarded it myself.
We're getting a piece from just the normal flavor
with chestnut in it.
Which means it's also veggie friendly.
That's awesome.
Okay, let's get some of this sauce, bite into it.
Mmm, mmm, oh.
One of my favorite sticky rice dumplings
that I'm used to eating.
You can kind of see the rice falling apart.
This one however is very formulated
almost like very sculpted.
So all the rice has been very much mashed into this shape.
So look at that, you don't see any of the rice falling out.
It's just very much hardened.
However, it's got a nice sticky bounce to the bite.
Mmm, mmm.
I'm gonna try the piece from the other flavor
with salted egg.
I believe there should be some mushroom in it
and it looks like there's some meat in here.
I think it's pork.
Let's bite into it.
Mmm, oh yeah.
Something about salted egg is just fantastic.
Usually in a sticky rice dumpling.
Usually put half of a salted egg, egg yolk,
like half of it.
If you're lucky they put a whole one
and that to me is the best part of a sticky rice dumpling.
This one, they packed so many in here
it looks like there's three in here.
There's one, here's another one
and there's more here.
There's just so much.
Look at it, look at this big piece of salted egg yolk
and this is not just one piece, there's many of it.
Mmm, oh my god.
Whoa, mmm.
I'm kinda skeptical about, you know,
why this sticky rice dumpling will be better,
or awarded at least,
and I think it's because they are packed,
each sticky rice dumpling with so much ingredients.
Like I've never seen a sticky rice dumpling
packed with just, it's just over filled with
that many salted egg, with this many chestnut.
I've seen sticky rice dumplings with lots of meat.
This one kind of packed it with all kinds of ingredients.
It's very balanced.
So yeah, I can see why it got awarded for sure.
Mmm, wow.
There's a lot of magic going on in this hawkers center mhmm.
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We are in Chinatown, heading to the Chinatown complex.
Sweating, how bout a woo, here we are.
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Hello it is the last stall of today's Michelin episode
and guess what, this stall actually has one Michelin star.
Yes, that's right, it's a hawkers center stall.
It's only two dollars, two Singaporean dollars
and it has one Michelin star,
(explosion)
I know.
About to taste some legendary soya chicken.
Soya chicken has the texture of hainanese chicken rice.
In the way that the meat looks very juicy
and it has a nice glossy skin.
Hawkers marinate it in dark soy sauce
and that's what you see right here on the skin.
I'm hoping it's going to taste amazing.
So here we go.
I got some of the chilly.
We're gonna dip it into this chilly sauce.
Yeah , oh yes honey, look at that juicy piece of meat.
Hell yeah, uh.
Okay, let's do this.
Wow.
I was expecting a bit of a chew from it
but wow that was really juicy and really tender.
Mmm, oh my god.
The tail end of this is all bone
so let's move on to the next piece.
For only two dollars, Mmm.
Actually quite a lot for that price, seriously.
So we're gonna dip it into some of this dark sauce.
You see that drizzle, oh yes.
Dark and thick, lets do this.
Oh my god, wow.
Mmm, that glossy skin is so yummy.
It's got a little bit of a jelly like texture.
Refreshing just like the hainanese chicken skin.
Wow, I don't know how they cook this chicken
to make it so tender, so moist and just so juicy.
I get the hype.
I'll tell you what though, the rice is nice and fluffy
but just by itself it's not much.
So get the noodles next time because
it's a lot gooey-er, it's a lot springier.
I wish they drizzled more of that dark sauce on top
but the chicken is the star of the show
and it definitely lives up to its name, wow.
In terms of the juiciness of the chicken
I think this is even better than the one we had
at a restaurant, yeah,
and this just at a stall in the middle of Chinatown.
Mmm, so good.
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There you guys go.
That was a little Michelin hawker tour here in Singapore.
Thank you guys so much
for joining me for this food adventure.
What'd you guys think?
I thought the flavor was all there.
I thought the presentation was awesome.
It just all looked so visually amazing
and it tasted great as well.
In terms of what exactly constitutes
and makes this all worthy of a Michelin recognition,
I'm not sure.
Apparently they just send anonyms reviewers out
to review the food
so maybe higher me, yes?
(laughs loudly)
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Comment below with which of the dishes
that you saw today,
which of the stalls would you love to try.
Thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you guys next time, bye.
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