- Oh, we have our catch! - Get it, whoa, let's go!
- Chicken rice!
- You know food is good when you wanna dance.
- (PvF) We trying some street food today.
- Hell yeah! - Ooh, oh hell yeah!
- (PvF) We are going to Singapore.
- Ooh! - Oh!
- (PvF) So street food is easily one of the best ways
to quickly learn and immerse yourself in a new culture,
and street food in Singapore takes that to a whole new level.
Most street food can be found at hawker centers,
or open air food centers,
and dining at one is an experience like no other.
In 2016, two of these stalls were the first street food vendors ever
to be awarded Michelin stars.
- Oh, I heard about that.
- Whoa. - What!?
- I'm so blown away that a street cart
got a Michelin star.
- Oh my God, I'm so excited. - Cool, me too.
- What is this?
- A little crab, okay.
- Crabs, okay. - Is that a blue crab?
- I've never heard of this before. - Yum!
- Oh man. - Oh my God,
those hoes are still alive. - Yeah.
- Oh my gosh.
- I'm very curious, I've actually never had crab before.
So this will be my first time ever having crab.
- Chili crab? - Oh my God!
- (man) We ordered one crab over here, just completely drenched...
- Drenched.
- That sounds so delicious.
- I'm drooling.
- Ooh. - Hey yo.
- Oh, this looks amazing! - Ooh.
- (PvF) Chili crab is a Southeastern Asian dish
that was invented in Singapore in the 1960s,
and consists of mud crabs
cooked in a savory tomato and chili-based sauce.
- Oh, awesome!
- (PvF) It's widely associated as the national cuisine
of both Singapore and Malaysia.
- Wow, okay, well, I'm gonna crack into this sucker.
- Oh, this is a lot of shell here, okay.
- And ooh baby, there it is.
- That is really good. - Oh.
- Mmm. - That's very good.
- That's so good! - That is very good.
- If it doesn't get all over the place it doesn't belong in your face.
- I'm gonna try to like poke it out, ooh.
- It's pretty, I mean, I get the hype, I get it.
It's just a lot of work. - It is.
- That sauce is yum! - Ooh, that sauce is great.
- This sauce is so good.
- There's a good amount of spice,
but it's not like kicking me in the face.
(Ash slurps) - There we go!
Good slurp!
- I feel like, texture-wise, it's kinda similar
to more like soft chicken or something.
- I don't know that I've ever heard crab described
as soft chicken. - Soft chicken.
- But to me, you know, to me, it's like...
- (PvF) Y'all have no food left, so...
- I got a little bit. - What have I done?
- (man) I am about to dig in to a bowl of laksa.
- Oh, this.
- Laksa? - Laksa!
- Laksa, I've never had this either.
- I'm trying to put together what's in the dish.
- Okay, so it's like noodles.
- Ooh, it's got curry in it, I'm sold already.
- Ooh. - This looks really good though.
- His reaction is selling it for me. - I just know
that they talked about laksa in a scene in Crazy Rich Asians.
- He looks happy.
- I'm excited to try this one.
- Ooh, interesting, alright. - Ooh!
- Ooh, what is, oh! - Nicole.
- Shrimp chips?
- (PvF) Laksa is one of the most popular dishes of Southeast Asia,
with unknown origins and it varies greatly by region.
This spicy warm noodle soup is traditionally a comfort food
especially appreciated on cold rainy days,
and this one is actually
from Singapore's Banana Leaf in Los Angeles.
- Oh, okay. - Oh, awesome!
- Oh my God, it smells so good!
- Yeah, they bussin'. Mm-hmm.
- Ooh!
- Mmm.
- I love the accoutrements with the tofu, the chicken,
the bean sprout.
- I love earthy flavored stuff, and this is just, in soups are my jam.
- You gotta teach me your chopstick ways.
- Hold one like a pencil, put one in there.
This is pushing, this is pushing, so this stays stable.
- Oh, we have our catch! - Get it, oh, let's go!
- This is really exciting, like getting to try all this stuff.
- Oh yeah.
- Yo, I'm living in the wrong place.
- It's like popping, like Rice Krispies.
- Look. - Mmm, mmm.
- You know food is good when you wanna dance.
- Fish head curry. - Oh, I've heard of this.
- Fish head curry, yes! - Fish head curry, ooh!
- Yes, yes! - I love a good curry.
- Fish head curry? Yo!
- I'm so happy right now.
- I will admit, fish head is
not the most appetizing looking food in the world.
- I would never think of curry being a street food.
- I've never even had fish head.
- The color of it is already just beautiful.
- Yeah.
- Okay. - I'm loving these comfort dishes.
- It makes your mouth water.
- Alright, this will be fascinating.
- Oh, this looks, oh!
- (PvF) Fish head curry is a very popular and quite tasty
Singaporean dish that's derived from a hybrid
of Indian and Chinese ethnic cuisine.
- Oh! - Okay.
- (PvF) It's often seen as a pricier hawker stall offering,
but still a very popular one.
- Mmm! - Mmm.
- That's good! - Yeah, this is really good.
- Mmm.
- It's a different kind of curry compared to like Thai curries
and Japanese curries.
- Very unique.
I've never tasted anything like this before.
- It's weird to think that fish heads are just so flavorful.
- Uh-huh. - They just toss them in there.
- It kinda makes me like curry. I didn't like curry before.
- Really? - I always had a curry salad.
- I'm like so bewildered by it,
like this is everything I don't eat, is I'm eating right now,
and it's all good.
- (man) One of the most famous places to eat a dish called bak chor mee.
- Yo!
- Did he just say pork noodles?
- I also don't know what this is.
- Ooh, what is this? - Bak chor mee?
- Bak chor mee? - Bak chor mee?
- Yum! - Oh, interesting.
- Whoa. - Yo.
- Ugh, noodles.
- Oh yeah, oh yeah. - Ooh, yum!
- This looks really good. - Ooh.
- Ooh, dumplings! - Ooh.
(Jair gasps) - Ooh.
- (PvF) So listed as the world's top street food
by the World Street Food Congress... - What?
That's, I'm sorry, that's a crazy thing to just drop.
- There's a Street Food Congress? - Congress.
- (PvF) Singapore's bak chor mee is absolutely a dish worth trying.
This minced meat noodle dish is flavored with chili and vinegar,
so you can enjoy it in one of two ways.
There's either a dry version or a soup version.
- We gonna throw that in. - (laughs) Yeah.
- Bloop!
- Everything in one go.
- How are you doing that? I'm struggling to pull one.
- Well I'm, the teacher, the student has become the teacher.
- This might be the best one so far.
- Mmm! - There you go.
- That is really good. I could eat this for days.
- Is this the fish ball? - (PvF) Mm-hmm.
- Little fried fish ball.
- It's kinda sweet, it's kinda tangy.
It's kinda vinegary.
- I'm so happy. This is so good!
- Yo, that is...
- Brian loves a good dump. - Mmm.
Uh... - That was a weird way to stop.
- What?
- It's the meat with the fish ball, with the noodle, with the sauce.
- There's so many layers.
- You get like a little bit of everything.
- Mm-hmm. - You get a little bit of pork,
they add in some fish cake, they throw in a dumpling.
- Two different kinds of pork.
- This slaps. - Mm-hmm, uh-huh!
- This really does, this is really really good.
- I am more focused on eating this one,
than I am talking.
- I know, Kenneth has not looked up once.
- He's like [censored] that, pulling the noodles, just...
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- Chicken rice! (laughs) - Chicken rice.
- (gasps) Hainanese chicken rice?
- As in chicken and rice?
Or are you ricing a whole chicken? (Ash laughs)
- Yes, Hainanese chicken rice is so good!
- Ooh!
- Okay, this looks pretty straightforward.
- Simple!
- That sauce! - Chicken rice, some sauce.
- What's that sauce on the side?
- I've heard so many things. - Ooh.
- She loves the rice. - Ooh.
- Oh wow!
- Yeah!
- This looks fuego! - Ooh.
- This is as straightforward as this one gets.
- Thank you!
- Chicken rice!
- (PvF) Created by immigrants from Hainan in southern China,
Hainan chicken rise is considered
one of the national dishes of Singapore,
and is most commonly associated with Singaporean cuisine.
However, it is absolutely a culinary staple
throughout many Southeast Asian countries.
- I mean, I've had chicken with rice many a time.
- Most of college.
- Did you put the sauce on it? - Yes, try the red sauce.
Try the red sauce, it's so good.
- It's like a ginger, kinda.
- Ooh, we got some chicken skin in here too, let's go.
- I'm gonna kill this dish if somebody doesn't take it from me.
(Kenneth laughs)
- It's as comforting as like chicken noodle soup.
- Yeah.
- So basically what you do is you boil the chicken down in a stock.
So you pull that chicken out,
and then you put the rice in,
and you cook it in that chicken fat broth.
- So it's legitimately chicken rice.
- Yes.
- To make rice in chicken broth is brilliant.
- That rice is bussin'. - Mmm!
- That rice is so good. - Oh we did, that was fire.
- That might be the best rice dish I've ever had.
- Ooh, oh. Shaved ice?
- Oh yes!
- I have no idea what...
- Looks like shaved ice, with adzuki bean?
- This is the one I'm probably most scared of.
- Yeah, it looks like red bean.
- Pandan? (gasps) Pandan is amazing.
- Oh. - It's very green.
- I love that color, it's pretty.
- This looks like some snot's going on.
- Jeez. - Eight hours?
- Eight hours per day? - He's sweating.
- Crazy, he a sweaty boy. - Really work your biceps.
- Mm-hmm!
- Damn, this guy's determined. - What a badass.
Ooh!
- What the heck?
- Oh, what the [censored]? (laughs)
- (PvF) So chendol is an iced sweet dessert
that contains droplets of green rice flour jelly,
coconut milk and palm sugar.
It's very commonly found in many Southeast Asian countries,
and it's a favorite on warm summer nights
in Singapore hawker centers.
- That makes total sense. This is a delight.
- This is way better than I thought it was gonna be.
I was like I don't know how... - Oh!
- (laughs) Look at his face! - That is so good.
- I wanna drink this whole thing.
- You, child. - Slurp it up.
- You know the name of the show.
- Yo, mind blown.
- This is delicious. - This is really,
I'm like speechless at how good this is.
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, yes, when you first look at it,
it kinda looks weird, 'cause it's like little green...
- Yeah. - Little things,
but I promise, this tastes amazing.
- You know what it tastes like? - Mmm?
- What a bowl of cereal should taste like.
- It actually reminds me of the jelly
that you can get in boba.
- I am pleasantly surprised. - This is very refreshing.
- It's extremely refreshing.
- It kinda just tastes like melted coconut milk ice cream.
- This whole video is just [censored], like,
I tried so many different foods that were like so unique
and creative, and had their own flavors.
- Thank you guys so much for watching.
- What other foods should we try next time?
- Let us know in the comments below.
- And as always, be sure to like and subscribe to People Vs Food.
- Bye! - Bye guys!
- Yo.
- (PvF) Ashley is our new associate producer,
and this is her very first React video.
- Woo, hey! - Who me?
- Finally on camera say how much it is
that I love the food that you make for these shows.
- Aw, thank you. - Like 100%.
- Thank you! - You kill it in the kitchen.
Nicole as well.