I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate. Today we're in Singapore and
we've come to Tiong Bahru Food Centre to try some of Singapore's famous hawker food.
First dish, lor mee which is a Chinese inspired Hokkien dish it's noodle soup of sorts
and man is it a good-looking bowl of noodles. So we've got these thick yellow noodles and
they're swimming in this crazy, like really thick almost
gluggy broth and there's a tonne of interesting looking stuff
in here, there's garlic, there's chilli, there's coriander, there's bean sprouts, there's some crispy
bits I'm not sure what they are and some deep fried shark nuggets. I'm going to get in
and give this a go. Give it a big mix-up, get those flavours going, it's also got some black
vinegar in it to I think cut through the richness of the deep fried bits
Mmm, wow there's a great chilli hit, the noodles are quite
soft but they're coated in that thick flavoursome broth. I want to get into these
deep fried shark nuggets.
Mmm really light batter and the shark bits are quite chunky, shark is a really firm fish
oh that is just to die for. Next up we've got chwee kueh which is
water dumpling but they're a rice dumpling which has preserved radish and looks
like some sesame seeds, lots of chilli here, I'm just going to dive right in
try whoa these are really hard to pick up really hard, hang on,
I'm going to have to go double sticks on this one
hmm, oh my god
totally different texture to what I was expecting, it's like the texture of a umm
perfectly boiled, sorry perfectly poached
egg, the yolk, it's really creamy, it just coats your mouth, really soft flavour, the radish has a
like a just a little sort of tangyness to it it's very flavoursome but I can't
quite pick
like a sort of pickled sort of taste going on really nice chilli like that
chilli sauce is so thick and luscious. I'll just try a little bit more. Oh my god,
the texture, the best bit about this dish is the texture
it tastes phenomenal but the texture is awesome I love this one. Next up this
amazing looking dish of prawn mee so it's got yellow noodles, rice noodles, bean
sprouts and a mixture of seafood, made up of prawns, fish cake and some squid
and it's been cooked in a wok in a really rich seafood broth. I've just squeezed some
lime over the top and also I'm going to mix in a bit of chilli
it is not the most good looking dish but I can assure you that it makes up
for it in the taste stakes. It's like this really good comfort food, the noodles are
just a great texture they're quite a soft
the chilli just really adds to the flavour
and you can really taste that seafood flavor coming out in the broth, this place, the prawn mee vendor as well
as the chwee kueh vendor have both been recommended by the Michelin Guide so there
you go, Michelin Guide recommended meal for under $4
Singapore is a melting pot of cultures and their diversity is reflected in
their food centres you'll find all sorts of cuisines, Indonesian, Malay, Indian, Western food,
Singaporean of course, so it's time to eat more
next up is carrot cake one of my favorite dishes here in Singapore and
actually mentioning that if you could let us know what are your favorite dishes
if you've been to Singapore, what are your favorite Hawker centers, we'd
love to know so let us know in the comments below because we'll probably
be back here in the next few months so if we can get tips from you we'd love to
visit your favorite places and make more videos. But back to the carrot cake it's a
pretty confusing name for us Westerners who think of carrot as a sweet cake
with a lemon or cream cheese icing but actually this is a savoury turnip dish
so it's turnip which has been cooked in the wok with some egg and we've got the
black version it also comes as a white version the black version means it's had
sweet soy sauce or kecap manis added to it, a bunch of chilli, tossed in the
wok really simple, let's give it a go
it's really squishy the dish, the flavors really more in the sweet soy sauce and
the chili the actual turnip doesn't have a huge burst of flavor you get little
crunchy bits where the the sugars have cooked in the wok, it's just a really
good home style type dish, the sort of thing you'd probably feel like if you're sick
you'd be like 'I just want to eat some carrot cake'. I love it it's really good really
worth trying. So we couldn't come to a Singapore Hawker Centre and not try
Singapore's national dish which is Hainanese chicken rice, basically it's
an oily rice with steamed chicken and a ginger chilli sauce this one also
comes with soup on the side and a I've also got some sprouts and some cucumber, I've
constructed what I think is the perfect bite so I'm just going to go for it.
It just never disappoints. The chicken is so moist, that hit of zing
and spice from the chilli and the ginger the rice you can just eat on its own it's
got so much flavour, so much texture, the grains aren't all mushed together
they're separate and they're just pretty al dente and chewy, just so, so good.
I'm washing it down with a Michael Jackson which is a mix of soybean milk and grass jelly. If you've never
tried soybean milk it tastes like sweetened tofu and grass jelly it's like a
herbal jelly and it tastes a bit like brown sugar
I think, it's just jelly like and you can get it in the form of a drink or as a
dessert
we're finishing with this towering sensation of a dessert an ice kacang
it's totally Instagrammable it's just a mountain of shaved ice we got a
peanut flavored so it's got crushed peanuts and underneath all this
shaved ice is a mixture of jelly, beans, rice noodles it's a crazy crazy dessert.
Mmmm there's like a brownsugar syrup that's been drizzled over so it's got that almost
mellow burnt taste. The peanut is really sweet adds a lot of flavor and then there's like
grass jelly in here, there's some red beans, some red jellies, some corn,
Wild times.
that was an awesome visit Tiong Bahru Hawker Centre, if you've
not been to Singapore hawker centres are incredible there's hundreds of them all
around Singapore, they used to be street food vendors but
the government moved them all into these hawker centres some are massive like the
one we've just been to hundreds and hundreds of stalls some are tiny, five
to ten stalls but they are all brilliant but we love this one and we also love
the Old Airport Road Hawker Centre which we did in our last video so check that
video out as well and don't forget to subscribe and hit like on this video if
you've enjoyed it. We couldn't resist getting some rice cakes or chwee
kueh with us to take home these were amazing they are a must eat you have
to order them when you are here. Thank you so much for watching, we hope
we've inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler, not a tourist, we'll see
you next time, bye.