we're in Singapore today and we're here to eat this food series is all about
showing you the best local eats in the country
Singapore is a nation of eaters
the food culture here will blow your mind this is our fourth video from
Singapore and we're travelling all over the island to show you the best local
food we go crazy for some of the island's tastiest noodles, succulent BBQ pork and
one of Singapore's best snacks, in this four part series we're hunting down
authentic Singaporean food and eating where the locals eat you don't want to
miss this series get ready for some mouth-watering food
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, we hope you're hungry
let's eat!
the food culture in Singapore is unreal there is food everywhere you
look so we've been travelling all over the island to show you some of the best
food in this video hunting down the absolute gems so at the moment we're at a
hawker centre which is in a wet market but the hawker centre all the food to
eat straight away is right upstairs so let's go get our first thing
our first snack is one of my favourite dishes to eat in Singapore
it's the ultimate comfort food it's fried prawn Hokkien mee
like I was saying before this is one of my favourite dishes to eat in
Singapore this is the fried prawn Hokkien mee and it is a jumble of
ingredients it's made up of two types of noodles so you've got bee hoon which are rice
noodles and then yellow noodles they're cooked in a prawn and pork stock and then there's
some egg some bean sprouts some prawns and some pieces of squid
and this is just comfort food it's simple
is really hearty oh I can also see some pork and I think there's oh yes some lard
in there and I hear that this stall cooks their lard or fries up their lard
fresh every morning we've got some sambal and also some calamansi to go with it so I'm
just gonna get that calamansi juice
into there, alright and then chuck some of that sambal or chilli sauce into the
noodles because I want a bit of spice mix it all up
and let's go for a massive bite
this is an excellent Hokkien mee it's got a smoky flavour from the wok hei
which is the essence of the wok so you want that smokiness from the wok to sort
of impart itself into the noodles and this dish definitely has that and it's
quite creamy and rich, so when they cook the noodles they're pouring ladles of the
pork and prawn stock into the noodles letting the noodles sort of soak up the stock
sort of like when you cook a risotto you add the broth intermittently let
the rice cook, soak it up and get creamy that's like the same sort of thing here
the noodles are really creamy
I want to include some squid in my next
bite and then also a piece of that, is that pork lard there?
hopefully that's pork lard okay
the squid is really really tender it just melts in your mouth not chewy at
all and that pork lard just explodes with
fat and flavour as you crunch down on it this stall has been here since 1968 so
that's like over 50 years and they were so busy we waited about 15-20 minutes
for our order so worth the wait
that is such a brilliant food center we've actually filmed there before we ate a
delicious carrot cake so check out that video and that is my new favorite Hokkien
mee in Singapore it was phenomenal
next up we've made our way to another Hawker Center this is the ABC Brickworks
Hawker Center and we're having two different dishes here the first one is
right beside me it's called ummm Fatty, what's it called? Fatty Cheong
we're here for some char siew rice, brilliant name
this stall looked incredible I absolutely love char siew on rice
so this store comes highly recommended we've got it on good authority that it
is the best in Singapore and I can't wait to try it out because it looks
incredible
this char siew or barbecue pork looks really really special they're cooking it
in a really big charcoal oven so that's always a good sign that you're gonna get
mega flavour with a dish and just look at it, it's beautiful meat so there's a
couple of things that are really special about this place one it's cooked in that
charcoal oven and two they use a really special cut of the meat they actually
use the armpit of the pig I guess that's a leg pit I'm not really sure I'm not
good enough on butchery to know exactly where that is but I guess it must be
right up there under the pig and I don't know if that makes the meat fattier and
juicier or if it's a drier more flavoursome cut of meat but I guess
there's one way to find out so we've got the meat on rice with this beautiful
gravy on top we do actually have some greens to balance it out make it a bit
more of a rounded meal but I'm here for the main game and we do have some chilli
as well but I'm gonna leave that first time around just get some meat on rice
burst of flavour absolute burst of flavour I thought the the charcoal barbecue would
give it a bit more smokiness it has that a tiny bit but not so much
I love that this isn't too salty but it does have a very good sweet salty balance the
meat had a beautiful layer of juicy fat fat that just burst in my mouth so gave
a real flavour hit and that sauce on top is just packed with flavour so that's
what it's marinated in as well and the the sauce is packed with things like dark
soy sauce, oyster sauce, bean sauce, rice wine just flavourtown let's get some
chilli with another piece so I'm gonna get a whole lot of chilli on there
because it was not quite as smoky and barbecued as I thought
I think the chilli's really gonna round this out nicely
that chilli is great, actually it looks really fiery cause it's quite a good like
dark red oil on it but it's actually quite tangy
it's got a real sourness to it a little bit sweet and a tiny spice and so that
works perfectly with the meat and the sauce on that meat now I've got to say
a real standout with this is the meat itself it's got an incredible texture
and an incredible flavour sometimes with a dish like this the meat gets a bit
lost under all that marinade but it's not here you've got the real flavour of
the meat as well as all those other flavors coming together to make
absolutely perfect mouthfuls of food
it's an absolute joy it's really good
see that line behind me that's what we're going to join for a really
delicious snack to cool us down, it's cendol
if you need cooling down when you're in this part of the world cendol is the
thing to eat we ordered the house specialty it's got the power cendol
so it is rapidly melting so I'm going to speed through what it is it's made up
of a tightly ball of shaved ice, packed tightly packed ball of shaved ice there's
some coconut milk in there, there's these green pandan noodles which are cendol
it can be a bit confusing because the name of the dish is called cendol and
these pandan flavoured noodles are called cendol as well there's some red beans
in there and then the reason this stall is famous for its cendol, this gula
melaka the thick sticky coconut palm sugar which is the crowning glory on
this dessert ohhh I also saw a palm seed in there as well so let's just get a big
ole spoonful some of that gula melaka some beans some cendol and ice
whoa that gula melaka is like nothing else
it's really sticky and thick quite caramelised oh that's real good
coconut milk is very creamy, the ice is so refreshing it's just a really great
snack when you're super hot
oh my goodness the cendol is turning into
soup
just such a great texture too, you've got the slippery pandan noodles, earthy red beans
the ice, the creamy coconut milk, the flavours are just a mishmash of perfection
in this whole series we wanted to take you all over the island and show you some of the
best the really amazing local food so that's what we've been doing and today is
no different we've covered all corners of Singapore to find the best food and
we've now come for a wantan mee which is a really classic dish that you see
all over Singapore but this is meant to be an incredible version and we just
love traveling all over Singapore because you can really get around and
really find the best local food and honestly what we're showing you
especially in this video it might not seem on the surface the most exciting
food but it is incredibly exciting because it is so tasty it's just such
great versions of these dishes
now this is a dish you'll find all over Singapore I mean every hawker centre
will have someone selling this dish generally multiple people but we've come to
this restaurant because it's rumored to be one of the best you'll find on the
whole island and it sure does look good so it's a very simple looking dish it's
got char siew so barbecue pork like we just had at that last hawker center but
for starters you can see how different that pork looks we've got some greens
we've got the wantans and then we've got the noodles so they're an egg noodle and
they get a lot of flavor because they're cooked and then dipped in pork lard and
the stock a pork stock that they make and we've got some great little sides
here so this is some fried pork lard and some nice pickled chilies so I'm gonna
put some of these fried lard bits on definitely some of these pickled
chillies and you just mix it all up, get some pork on there, some noodles ohhh and I
forgot to say this is their house chilli sauce which is
meant to be legendary but I'm going to go no sauce first and
then have sauce second time around
Oh
Wow
there's a lot of flavour that pork lard is really giving the dish a lot of
flavour and the char siew's nice and sweet and it's really fine bits and
it's quite a nice dry char siew so it's not covered in big fatty bits or
anything like that it's just beautifully thinly sliced and quiet dry oh that is
really really good let's chuck some more together but this time
we'll go chilli sauce now they say you only need a little bit because it is fiery
whoa
it's really fiery
oh that is great I'm gonna grab a wantan
so they're full of pork meat as well oh there is so much flavour there a really
nice oiliness and fattiness from the from the pork ohhh and that chilli sauce is
really good it's super sharp really fiery but doesn't take away the beautiful
flavors of the actual dish it is delicious
look how beautiful and springy those noodles look you can even just tell
picking them up how how good they are in the mouth so they've got a beautiful
springiness they're not overdone and coated in all that flavour incredible
and this is another real heritage place it's been around since the 40s family
recipe passed down through the generations another incredible stall
here well it's a restaurant actually this one, another incredible restaurant in
Singapore there's so much good food here