Hello girlfriends and welcome to another episode of Tried and Tested.
Today we'll be trying out some snacks that are inspired by famous Singaporean dishes.
So when you think of Singaporean dishes,
chilli crab is one of the first things that come to mind.
It's quite a sight to behold
it's covered in like this red orangy sauce that is sweet and also savory and
a bit tangy and it's got all of this like juicy crab inside
that is super delicious.
It's often served with like a side of fried buns that they call mantous
that they used to like mop-up all the sauce.
So today we have a couple of snacks that are chilli crab flavoured, let's try them.
Chilli crab cookies from The Cookie Museum.
So, first of all, can I say I'm very impressed with this box
I think it looks so good I think it's such a great gift.
Wow!
Oh my god! That's very impressive!
Wow Cookie Museum, I'm impressed.
So Cookie Museum have a whole bunch of
really interesting flavours and this is taking it to a whole new level.
So they are two layers of cookies the top one has a crab and the bottom doesn't.
First off, apart from being incredibly impressed by the presentation,
it really doesn't quite smell like chilli crab,
because like this kind of crab and the crab that they use for chilli crab smell very different.
I feel like this one smells almost more like prawn or shrimp-like.
But overall I guess it's like a seafood smell?
It's a nice firm buttery cookie.
It's definitely a little bit spicy which is really nice.
There's a bit of the tomato flavour and a bit of the sweetness.
Okay, let's eat with the crab itself.
It got a sweet sticky chewiness in the crab.
Overall to me, this doesn't really have like a chilli crab, chilli crab flavour
but there is a seafoody, savory, slightly sweet, prawny
flavour to all of this which kind of matches the way it looks,
but it's not necessarily chilli crab presentation everything this is craptastic.
Tastes like chili crap...aftertaste la.
I'll give the aftertaste so maybe like a
five because aftertaste also counts for something right,
whether is nice, I give it a 10.
I am super excited about this because
it's a collaboration between a very famous seafood restaurant in Singapore
called Jumbo Seafood and Japanese snack company Glico.
This is a chilli crab pretz stick I mean guys
can I say that I feel very proud as a Singaporean?
This is a great collaboration.
Really got the chilli crab flavour.
I can taste the tomato, I can taste the sweetness,
I can taste the spiciness.
So for the flavor, it's something that you need to savor in order to experience all of
the flavors of the chilli crab.
It's not something that you will eat and just go
"whoa, that tastes like chilli crab!"
you won't but if you take your time with it,
you can find the layers of flavors in there.
With fresh succulent crabs, it's a very specific taste when you bite into them.
It's like brininess, it reminds me of fresh crab.
And I can almost taste that here. Oh my god, this is amazing!
This is so great so good
crabtastic out of ten.
Okay okay so now I come to think of it
then for the Cookie Museum one it really doesn't taste like chilli crab.
I think I would adjust it to a two for the chilli crab flavor but still a great cookie.
So we have some Krusty's chilli crab flavor popcorn!
There's something sweet there but it almost smells like caramel.
Oh there's a little bit of a wok-hei(charred wok flavor) smells
like a slightly burnt smell.
It's good popcorn.
Wooh, there's a kick, you can taste a little bit of tomato,
that one is a slight hint of chilli crab.
I found one with a pretty strong crabby flavor ,
the rest of it is just like tasty really really tasty popcorn.
But I think that's a case with a lot of popcorn though like
even you get a bag of sweet popcorn,
very rarely do you get popcorn that is like all sweet.
But in terms of like a chilli crab flavor I feel like mmm
I need...I need more, I need more to kind of get a sense of the flavor itself because
it's very hard to find.
So as a popcorn it's tasty, it's yummy I would give it like an eight.
But as a chilli crap popcorn, I think I would give it a four,
because the chilli crab flavor is not really there or when it is like very
few and far between.
The bag is like this right, and it's like oh chilli crab, oh, chilli crab.
Oh my god, I've eaten half a bag you know,
maybe they should have extra seasoning packet in there.
So Hainanese chicken rice is one of them
must-have dishes in Singapore
and it's considered one of Singapore's national dishes.
So chicken rice sounds very simple but it is packed full with flavor
so you have really tender succulent chicken,
and then you have this flavored rice that is like cooked in chicken stock
and then you have chillies.
And if you come to Singapore, for those of you who are not Singaporean,
you have to try it and you'll find that in almost any Hawker Center.
Ok first can I just say,
they dress Mamee monster as like an uncle Hawker Center who sell chicken rice!
This is so cute this white singlet, and then the berms, and the towel,
oh my god, it's just spot-on.
So Mamee is a snack that a lot of us grew up with.
This is like super nostalgic.
The seasoning packets are covered with chickens.
So cute, my god, I love it!
Ok so inside you see it really looks
like instant noodles.
Different people eat it differently some people will leave it whole
and like bite into it.
There are also people who will crush it up
and then pour the seasoning packet in and shake it up.
I usually crush it up, so I've broken this up and now I'm going to add the
seasoning packet.
Whoa! Damn that really smells like chicken rice.
What!
And there is like ginger in there as well it can almost smell like the...
there's this sauce that they pour onto the chicken rice, I can smell the rice.
Whoa!
Okay, okay wait, let me taste it.
That's incredible, taste like a mouthful of chicken rice with the
rice and the chicken and the coriander and the ginger.
What's most amazing about this is I feel like I can taste the chicken rice's rice.
Let's see how it tastes after I put it all in.
Get your groove on and shake it.
Oh my god, I should shake it then we put music and lights.
Go Singapore!
Our seasoned Mamee.
Oh is that spicy?
Oh, this one has a lot of seasoning.
I remember as a child, we'll be like look for the one with the most seasoning
and eat that.
Too much seasoning!
Abort! Abort!
That's way too much seasoning.
Oh that is definitely spicy that is burning my tongue in a good way.
Mmm very nice.
I am totally fascinated by how I can taste the rice
of the chicken rice and I think that's the strongest flavor that comes through for me.
This is like a 10 out of 10 for me because like I honestly I was not really
expecting it to the taste like chicken rice but this has surpassed all expectations
and I feel hit a whole new level.
Like this is incredible.
This is from a brand called E.T.T.E.
I'm not really sure how to pronounce it but I'm guessing Ette?
I hope I'm correct.
This tea company actually specialize in making tea blends with Singapore and Southeast Asian flavors.
So they have other flavors like Bak Kwa, pineapple tart
Which sound very interesting but here we have chicken rice tea.
Now you know actually I'm quite adventurous with my food and I like to try new things,
but when I heard of chicken rice tea I was like...
that sounds really weird and very strange
but let's see this could surprise us all.
Interesting, it smells nothing like chicken rice at the moment.
So inside we have ginger, lemongrass, pandan leaves.
The base is a Kukicha tea which is like a twig tea.
Alright, let's try this.
So it definitely doesn't taste like chicken rice it's not
that's not I think the idea after I saw the tea packet.
But there are elements of chicken rice in there that are quite nice.
The fragrance of the pandan and the lemongrass really lifts that tea up
which is in a way like quite refreshing.
So I feel like there's the lightness to the tea as well as the slight nuttiness
from the Kukicha which is quite pretty.
If it's supposed to taste like chicken rice, then like a one.
If it was supposed to match the chicken rice, then well ten.
Like as a tea it's great.
Yeah chicken rice is definitely not the first thing that comes to mind when I drink this tea
or even the second or third or forth.
So laksa is a spicy noodle soup.
Now there are many different types of laksa and the one that is famous in Singapore
is the Nyonya laksa which is a spicy coconut curry broth
and it is the color of like the sunset.
So usually in the bowl, they will also include like bean sprouts, prawn, cockles fishcake.
They also have Tau Pok which is like fried beancurd.
So Nissin has a very popular laksa cup noodle
and this is a spin-off in potato chip form.
The first thing that hits me is the coconut smell.
It tastes like cup noodle laksa.
I feel like I can taste like...
the coconut milk quite strongly actually.
And then the prawny-ness.
There's a kick to this as well.
So there is spiciness.
It tastes like a...
like a seasoning packet.
In some snack, when they do the flavouring, it can taste a little bit more complex
and some like the flavor profile I think is like still delicious but maybe a bit flatter
I feel like it tastes more like MSG.
I'm not saying like it's a bad thing, I'm just like identifying it.
So to me, I still think this chip is not bad I would give this like a
7.5 out of 10.
Laksa flavor Kit Kat from the KitKat Chocolatory.
I remember the last time we tried all the Chocolatory stuff,
and it looks so good. I wonder how these will look.
That's so cute.
I spy with my little eye...
an egg, I love eggs.
This is like I think a dried tau pok, that is crazy.
It's so hard and crispy.
And this I'm not sure what this is but it looks like a drumstick?
But I'm thinking it's a prawn because there are prawns in laksa so that makes more sense.
This is like I think the curry paste.
Let me try to scrape off a bit of the paste.
It really tastes like the curry paste, a version of curry paste
that is like a bit sweet and a bit strange.
Okay, let's take a bite like this and see how it all works together okay.
It's strange but I can't tell whether I like it or not.
That paste right has a dried shrimp flavor in it and it's
oh!
It's spicy.
And like together with the chocolate, I feel like on some bite it works on some bites is very strange.
But overall like as I was chewing it, it was like
"Oh that's a very interesting flavor profile."
and that laksa leaves taste is very strong
like very, very strong
but then it's like sweet
so it was like sweet and green.
Like it's very savoury and also very sweet.
That's why it's confusing me and I think.
But I would say
that every bite,
it's kind of packed with a surprise.
There's a type of like smelliness to it.
I can't tell whether it's the dried prawns or like the type of chocolate.
So the laksa flavours in there definitely taste them,
maybe like an eight out of ten.
As a...as a treat,
five.
You can see the effort that went into this
but mmm...
once is enough is that kind of treat you know I mean like oh I tried laksa chocolate and I'm good.
So now we're looking at the Teh Tarik and Roti Prata.
Now, this is a very popular combination in Singapore.
Teh Tarik is a milk tea that is pulled.
Tarik means pulled so what they do is they have like usually like two things
and then they just pour and they pull, then they pour and then they pull it.
So what happens is that you mix the tea and the condensed milk
all the way through and it also creates like a foam on top
and the important part of this is that it cools it down to a temperature that is like easy to drink.
Roti Prata is a kind of fried flatbread that you eat with curry
or with sugar
or with both.
So teh tarik and roti prata go very well together.
So very often when people have a roti prata they would have it with a teh tarik.
Here we have from The Kettle Gourmet, teh tarik popcorn.
Can I just say this is the smallest packet of popcorn I have ever seen.
So they have a lot of other flavors they also have flavors like chicken rice and bak kaw,
but here we have the teh tarik flavor.
Inside the color,
is very well coated.
I must say I can't really smell the teh tarik at the moment.
So when I first bite into it I'm like hmm,
this is caramel popcorn, then as you go further,
like the slight bitterness of the tea comes out
and then the condensed milk flavor.
The teh flavor comes through nice and like slightly bitter
and then the part that I love is the earthiness of the tea
and then you taste the condensed milk together
it's like so shiok.
And the popcorn right, it is just very crunchy
and the coating,
it's almost made it like really crisp and hard almost on the outside and it just melts in your mouth
ah oh wow yum yum yum yum.
That is a teh tarik popcorn.
很好吃, sedap, so good, wa shiok!
Wha this is shiok until!
My rating for this is
100
Yum!
Today we have with us some roti prata with fish curry.
This roti prata KitKat has actually nothing that is making me think of roti prata at the moment.
Oh, that smells like fish curry.
So we have this that I think it's maybe supposed to look like a roti prata?
And this I believe is tomato, this is a pea.
Here I'm assuming is the curry paste.
Alright, let's try this out.
The chocolate itself is not just plain chocolate.
I think it's got spices in there that they used to make curry.
I think this is supposed to look like roti prata
but roti prata is flat and so and this is like puffy.
Oh, interesting though because the inside layers are like flaky like a roti prata.
It tastes like a... you know Deloba?
It tastes a bit like that like without the sugar glaze.
I believe this is a candied tomato maybe.
Yeah, I think so mmm that's yummy actually.
Okay let's try a bite together.
Oh, that's quite nice actually, reminds me nothing of roti prata.
It's a nice curry flavoured chocolate and I think the addition of the biscuit on top
as well as the tomato really helps to lift all the flavors up
so that I can taste the chocolate and the curry sort of like separately and together
like I feel like, with the laksa, it kind of all mix into this strange...is like
as though you melted it into a cup kind of flavor whereas this
like I can feel them eaten together almost like a sandwich you know what I mean like the different
parts together that you can taste and that all that's a nice combination.
I feel like no sense of roti prata at all.
A little bit of curry but it wouldn't make me think of the roti prata.
Overall all the flavors together I actually think this is quite interesting and quite fun.
I would give it like a7.5 out of ten like I actually wouldn't mind eating this again.
Whether it's like a roti prata fish curry kit kat?
Maybe like a three
or two.
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