Hey Guys! It's Mike Chen here in Singapore
and like i mentioned before for years now
whenever i think of Singapore i think of food and when you think of food in Singapore
You have to think of Hawker Centers which are essentially just
huge gatherings of food stalls
so I guess you could say it's food heaven with a roof on top
and of course all Hawker Centers are great i mean food after food after food
Yes please! But some are still better than others
and when I asked you guys which Hawker Center is the best in Singapore
Most of you said the Hawker Center on Old Airport Road
so that's where I am right now!
and we're gonna play a little game it's called
"Whatever Looks Good We're Gonna Eat It"
First thing we're gonna eat is this thing right here
because first thing i see when i walk into this Hawker Center is this line
That must mean it's good and that's what I'm gonna eat
see a little bit of curry here and
WHOAA-HO!!
You guys see what I'm seeing?
This meat is just falling apart!!
Whoa! That is some tender lamb. Rice looks beautiful and puffy
I don't know if this is right or not but I think I'm gonna dump this on here
and what I thought was a potato in the curry. This is not potato.
This is just pure fat and this might not seem very appetizing to you guys
but this is making my mouth water right now. Let's take a piece of lamb
Hello Beautiful!
No wonder there was a line
Wow! It's awesome!
Well that's flavorful!
Huge curry taste. Lots of spices. The rice is like the marshmallow man. All Sorts of Puffy.
Just taste the lamb on its own
That Lamb! The flavor is seeped all the way through
The meat is tender not gamey at all and I'm gonna try piece of this fat
That was a little bit funky for me because that fat did have some gaming
this too it got some interesting pickles Here
Hmm the pickles are really light! it's not very vinegary but it is nice and crisp and spicy
I mean that kind of goes for this entire flame
This whole plate is just really flavorful really spicy rice and meat
Also what the locals tell me is that
this is the most inexpensive plate of Briyani I'll find in Singapore
I pay like this they say usually cause four or five six dollars
But here is only three bucks!
so it's either this or i don't know a
6-Inch Subway sandwich with mystery meat
You know with all that spicy stuff I've been eating over the last few days
It's nice to take a break and have a beautiful clear bowl of fish ball soup
with a side of really spicy noodle
All this is from Ru Ji Kitchen who apparently makes these fish balls every single day fresh
I mean just look at how beautifully bouncy these things are
Look at this! *squeeze**squeeze*
I feel like if I throw these against the wall it's gonna come right back out
then super! look at this really gentle pieces of fish tofu
OH MY GOSH! The soup is good!
and that was 100% a food surprise
Because just looking at the soup this might seem really clear and see-through
But trust me there's some magic going on here
Although It's not fishy at all it just has this such a
beautiful fish flavor
*speechless moment*
You guys just need to come here and try this seriously
Oh my goodness! I mean if the soup is THAT good I'm expecting great things from the fish balls
*lost in the fish ball realm*
Sorry I'm sorry I should explain if you didn't know what what that was
that was confusion caused by food euphoria
I've had my fair share of fish balls because i used to film Putienese and Cantonese weddings
but this one takes the cake and speaking of cake
We got some fish cake where we have fish tofu here
slightly chewy on the outside the rest of It is just beautifully tender
My Goodness!!
This is so good! Wow!
You know you find a couple of items you really like and you feel like
you just want to sit here all day and eat those two items but
Unfortunately, unfortunately, really unfortunately
I have to try a lot more stuff in here so I can't just stuff fish meatballs into my body until it comes out of my ears
Something else they have here are egg noodles in their homemade sambal sauce
I think I came to understand that sambal sauce is a very important part of this culture
Everybody has it. People make their own
It's kind of like maybe hot oil to me and right now this just looks amazing
I love Egg Noodles. I love Dry Noodles with some sauce and this checks all the boxes for me
I love this! Perfect amount of al dente, nice and chewy egg noodle wide so they grab onto that sauce so well
and I feel like this is really the perfect complement to this bowl of fish ball soup
Because this is still really flavorful but no spice this this will make you hurt
I just got a great idea
What if, work with me here, take a fish ball. They'll just come up with soup
Take some noodles and just put this whole bite in your mouth
Finish that with another spoonful of soup
That was mind-blowingly good!
You guys the noodles are a bit on the dry side so give that a little soup
give it a little water you get a little moisture then when you bite through the noodles you get to the fish ball
So you got the chewy noodles, the tender fish ball, that delicious soup
All swimming together! It's like a love story Folks
I got two really good food today so far
Let's see what's next!
Food Day continues with this baby here
This is fried kway teow. I got this because I saw a big old line lining up in front of this stall
Dong Ji Fried Kway Teow
You guys don't know what kway teow is well i didn't really either
until I just started eating this thing and it's essentially stir-fried rice noodles
you notice like there's tons of stuff in here you got of course the rice noodles, sprouts
prawns, lap cheong, I see some chives
and they typically put cuttlefish in here as well but they ran out of that
That is eggy, crunchy and a semi delicious
Lap cheong was one of the greatest things ever created by the Food Gods
I mean that sausage can make anything tastes so fragrant and delicious
Right off the bat I see about ten things and then i notice
there's actually two types of noodles in here there's like Thin Lamien here as well
and I feel like the sauce really has a lot of elements to it, it's a bit sweet
I can taste the oyster sauce in here
There's definitely soy sauce so of course what they've done here is really throwing the heat elements
And I just want to say I really appreciate that
Prawns nice and sweet. It's just a lot to love about this dish, you know
I gotta take a break and check this up
Ice cream soda
Things I'm getting used to
Have been having so much noodle, soup and rice
noodle soup, then all sorts of soup lately. I need to change it up a little bit
so I got these really delicious looking curry puffs and I got two, one with curry and one with black pepper
Because that delicious black pepper crab is still in my head
First Impression feels flaky and crumbly it's beautiful
Break this apart in here
It's piping hot. That, my friends right now I mean I'm not trying to judge a curry puff by its cover here but
That looks pretty darn good. It looks good. Smells good
And it tastes even better. The outer crust is extremely buttery and flaky, curry flavor is good
I could almost eat the crust on its own. Now granted, the only other curry puff I knew came from like a Chinese bakery in New York
But this is pretty excellent and this is the black pepper curry puffs. Oh my goodness!
Wow! That's a load of chicken in there, I mean I wish there was some chicken here too
but all the chicken seems to be stuck right in there. It smells mildly peppery
Yea this is good
Well it's kind of crazy to say but
As much as I love chicken I really love this crust I mean this crust, add a little seasoning to it, it just makes my day
This has been a crazy food-filled day I've had a lot of good things to eat and I think
I'm finally approaching the finish line but I cannot leave here without eating this
Of course I've had the chilli crab. I've had the black pepper crab
According to you guys I shouldn't leave Singapore without having the salted egg crab
So that's exactly what I'm gonna do
I don't even know If I have room in my stomach for this but I'm gonna surely try
And just looking at this crab I see a lot of ingredients
You got the salty egg yolks which are the orange stuff right here, there's ginger, garlic
And check this up there's curry leaves in here and if you guys never have salted egg yolks you're missing out
This is beautiful
There's something about salted egg yolk, it kind of the hardest egg yolk but the yolk when you chew it
It crumbles and got that beautiful eggy flavor everywhere, a little salty
I don't even know where to start with this crab
You know what let's just take a joint and dig right in
Oh it's good!
First of all, this is really juicy
Can you see the juice come out of this, did you see that? Then just break this apart
and dip it in the sauce they gave me
OH WOW!!
That sauce is really spicy
Like borderline spice competition spiky oh
I guess that sauce is really necessary because I like the chilli crab in the black pepper crab
There's really no heat on the crab shells itself
That's gonna taste the outside of this crab here for a second just grab a bunch of the seasoning, just see what this is all about
That's really soft, it's extremely flavorful, I can taste a curry leaf and the salted eggs kind of flaking apart in my mouth
That's really good, that's realy good!
Look at this piece, oh my god! This crab was pregnant, all that crab roe sitting there
Get myself a piece of that action, just gonna dip that in a little chili
We've got the salted egg
Then you got the crab roe. At this point, I'm just sucking right there. You got some of the crab immature as well
Let's get into the claw
Look at that! They just broke apart Wow That's separating easily!
This is the easiest I've ever undressed a crab
Either i'm getting much better at this or the crab gods are smiling down upon me
You know what, instead of dipping it in the chili sauce, I'm gonna put some of this awesome topping on this crab claw
If you like eggs and you like crab and you like good tasty things in general, this gonna make you smile a lot
add a little bit of the heat
Man! That's spice that gives me every time i keep forgetting how spicy that is
But I really wish i can bottle this stuff
This is this is delicious
Next let's dig into the crab body here.
Look at the inners of this crab!
And then you have that and now you got the salted egg in there
This is fantastic!
I'm gonna drizzle some of the spice in there, just a little bit
Take the spoon and just scoop
It doesn't get any crabbier than that
Oh you know you know what I just thought of something because i see a lot of good stuff still left in this crab shell
That can't go to waste!
So i think what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna take some of my rice and i'm just gonna
Put it into my crab shell. I'm gonna Just like stir this around and make it into like a Crabby Eggy Rice oh
Look at that! Oh that is blending well!
Tell me this doesn't make you happy looking at this right now and then just a little spice on that
You've got up a little bit cos you don't want that to get too cold
Oh this is such a better rice bowl than just this
Next on my food lists is Nam Sing Hokkien Fried Mee. This place you don't see a
That looked like a bit much of a line but actually people just put their names down
And they're all just waiting around in the Hawker Center and
He told me to wait right now, it's over an hour already
Alright! Got my fried mee, let's take a look!
It's a little more watery than I thought it was gonna be
Besides the shrimp, there's also cuttlefish, sprouts, two different types of noodles and some eggs in there and I'm just bubbling with anticipation
I'm confused
Where's all that flavor coming from Because
Essentially this is a plate of fried noodle and rice noodles and then I see something what looks like maybe egg noodles or some sort
of lor mee here. Some shrimp and cuttlefish
Sprouts and eggs so i'm kind of anticipating something eggy, may be a little seafoodie but
Almost borderline buttery. This is ridiculously fantastic!!
And They Give Me like some spice to go with it with a little lime
Let's add The spices since you have this little lime
I thought no way this thing could be even more ridiculous!
And it just became more ridiculous!
This might be the best thing I've had in Singapore that's not called a black pepper crab
Actually i don't know this might be better Now it's you see a little vinegary and
and the shrimp!
It's like every single female Final Fantasy character
Sweet and perfect i can see now why they give me a spoon
it's all mushed together that you could eat it with a spoon
I just..
Everything! It should be eggy, it gave crunch of the sprouts but then that crazy cream sauce, whatever that is, just ties everything together
I'm telling you guys right now if you ever come to Singapore and you have like i don't know
two hours before your next flight and you can only eat one thing. THIS IS IT!
You come here and you eat this
I mean you might miss your fight because you might have to wait in line for about an hour
but trust me there'll be other flights
I want to apologize to this right now
when people told me to eat here, i kinda saw what it was i was like all right
just stir fried noodle what's the big deal
I'm sorry i didn't see all your potential you know this has Been such a Fantastic ending to this
perfect food day!
I mean nobody wants to end up Food day on a down note but this
This Thing ultimate high i Mean This is a Sixth sense of all Food day Endings its
Unsuspecting and When it's all over you
you just Kind of like huh never Would've thought
also what a fantastic Hawker Center
Now i know why most People When i always come to singapore told me
you've got to come here
So thank you guys so much for your recommendation Because it Just made my day
even made my trip
Guys, as always, everything i ate, all the details is in my description box
Thank you all so much for watching and until we eat again
I'll see you later