I tried Singapore foods for almost 2 weeks, and i couldnt find any to my liking. Maybe i used to malaysia's recipe. But I found out their food to be kinda tasteless, and worst...weird. Especially their bak kut teh . So, what you all think about SG's food? Personally, i still prefer malaysia;s one.

Yes, most of SG food is tasteless, coz their gov is concern on for their ppl health, less sugar less salt.
But i ate b4 1 of their nasi brayni not bad, although is $6 but it can feed up to 2 ppl meal.

Wait till Vkeong comment further liao

their laksa is good. chilli crab too. btw, i prefer to have the natural taste of ingredients instead of alot of salt sugar flavorings that harm health n tastebuds.

katong laksa is good

wantan mee and any type of noodles prepared in dry style, pls avoid. not suited to our taste buds. soup types are OK

oh yeas katong laksa im missing it now. had it on a drizzling sunday. such a nice classic setting.

I tried katong laksa b4, not bad laa, but they only provide spoon no chopstick.

cuz no chopsticks r needed ma.

aikk got chopstick wan?

y cannot have chopstick? got or not same la actually.. just leave out the scissors cutting process only

Bcos earlier guy said authentic katong laksa bno chopstick wan..meaning u eated wrong Katong liao..

malaysia food must be better since singaporeans always come and crowd up all the nice restaurants and makan places..and im in malacca, even worse.

if it tastes nice then got fork also can

malaysia food hands down. can u believe the most 'renowned' nasi lemak in singapore contain sausages ? their sense of taste is beyond me.

cannot say not nice la .. just depends lo if you're from malaysia sure u will think the singapore foods is not good compare to malaysia and vice versa
since im from malaysia hehe i also think the foods here really cannot compare to malaysia haha i can say most of the foods here in singapore no good

singapore chiken rice is original

Within M'sia, sometimes Northern ppl also not used to Southern food la..

Anyway, my comments on S'pore (hawker) food:
Katong Laksa, the original one memang no chopstick wan. Use the soup spoon, eat the thick beehoon and soup together- slurpppp..

Singapore BKT, Teochew's peppery, plain looking soup version. Yucks, the soup is prepared with lots of pepper and garlic nia. Sometimes, can find the dark color herbal version, of course taste not as nice wan la..

Singapore CKT - another yucks.. It's black, sweet, wet, and fried with yellow noodle (by default). Last time, when I missed Penang CKT when in S'pore, I asked for CKT - koay teow only, no black sauce, lots of chiili.

Singapore Prawn Noodle - yellow noodle by default, must specify if want yellow noodle with beehun. Soup is pork bones based.

Wanton mee - dried version comes with wet chili. If want something closer to home, ask for don't want chili, don't want ketchup, BUT black soya sauce with pickled green chili. The Cantonese Ah Pek at People Park Centre knows.

My "safe" food in S'pore - chicken rice, duck rice, mee siam, mee soto, "lor mee", laksa, fish beehun soup, "ban mian" or "mee hun koay". Occasionally their Bak-Chor-Mee-Pok-Ta - took sometimes to get used to.

Oh, for those who ask for dried noodle without chili, ketchup is added (almost by default too if you don't specify)

When in S'pore, best to avoid the so-called "Penang laksa", "Penang CKT", "Penang xxx", taste not the same, ingredients also salah. Penang CM should go and sue them for using the word "Penang"..

Now me hungry liao la...

I could say the same about the food in Malaysia that begins with "Singapore" too.

Maybe you went to the wrong food court for the makan places in Singapore.
Jalan Kayu = Roti Prata?
Geylang Market = malay food?

Konfirm Vkeong eated the wrong wan liao...
All Southern M'sia including Malacca Wantan mee got chilli wan...well, actually my taste bud differ..I luv Mleka style wantan mee wth chilli giring added..It's a must to me..and when I 1st migrated to KL 2 decades ago...I became allergic to KL Wantan mee..How come no chilli giliing wan..Phailed liao....But there are 2 versions of Malacca wantan mee...the normal black wan & the light wan witout black source but wth shredded pork & oil + the wet chilli....This is my famous type..can't find anywhere except Malacca

No way man..The so called Ang moh Kio mee hun kueh so tasteless wan sumore came out in Singapore papers.,.

if using spoon is the original one, then the original one is not as tasty as the not-original one liao



btw this is the stall i went, http://www.sbestfood.com/originalkatonglaksa.htm

This post has been edited by vkeong: Oct 10 2009, 09:43 AM

Ehh..the link not working wan...Anyway blame those guys above for saying the ori Katong laksa no chopstick wan..me dunno lol..never eated katong laksa b4...hehe..

BTW..I will try searching malsingmaps old forum..bcos one Singaporean unker mati-mati said Hj Samuri that he tatsed worst than Singapore Satay...

eh not working? i dunno liao. that day i had 2 bowls of katong laksa at 2 diff places in a row, end up go home lau sai for 2 days

i havent go try the sate in lau pa sat yet.. but hj samuri quality really dropped recently so maybe that's why they say is not nice.

Eh that Singaporean unker who claim Satay kajang worst than Singapore wan was >3yrs ago...That time Hj Samuri still power wan...

So Singapore Satay must be good liao..

BTW..Try their Mee Siam...You can't find this In Central/Northern m'sia wan...The "Mee" is not really a mee hor...and very wet-wety wan..The best mee siam I tasted was in melaka when I ws young..now no more liao..The whole palce roboh-ed liao

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Added on October 10, 2009, 12:07 pmVkeong..You go and review this..the best hainanese pork satay in SG

http://ieatishootipost.sg/2007/10/chuan-ke...-hainanese.html

This post has been edited by stimix: Oct 10 2009, 12:07 PM

i tried the hainanese chicken rice in balestier road, corner shop. side by side with another corner shop famous for the bak kut teh (which is not nice also). the chicken rice... i thought what is so special about hainanese chicken rice, nothing special other than its rice. the chicken lost to most of the chicken rice stall in malaysia.

balestier road my colleagues say the crabs very cheap n tasty.

3 ppl call 5 cishes only $60 including squid n crab

fuuuuuuuuuu sixty sing dollar is cheap ..... i must be tokking to rich man liao.

thats right man. if it's ringgit then 3 ppl 5dishes is cheap.

anyway, i tried the hokkien prawn me in chinatown, this was the only nice food i tried so far in SG.

in malaysia where can you get such food for RM60.. cannot convert la, sure more expensive one

Curry chicken noodles at Senja food court at raffles place is not bad too.
In fact it has been higlighted by many programmes. but problem is compare with 2 years ago when i first try it, the quality has deteriorated somewhat.

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Added on October 10, 2009, 5:06 pmppl there earning start 2500 SGD, and even in City center can still get 3.5 sgd for chicken rice.... here in Msia, KLCC city center earn 2500 RM but chicken rice almost 7 ringgit.


This post has been edited by beatlesalbum: Oct 10 2009, 05:06 PM

are you sure it's 7ringgit? im not sure which place u mentioned, but 7ringgit for that area is kinda low already. expect 10-13ringgit lar

not outside. KLCC food court wan(drumstick). If youre talking about wisma central, its about 4 bucks.

The taste of their foods is not so nice compare to Malaysia. They very good in marketing their products, that’s why can become so famous. And good in decorate the foods too.

agreed, but when you see sg using phua chu kang to represent them in some ads, that also creates some negative publicity.

in Sg they have more varieties of cuisine...

but if you eat in hawker place try to avoid those stall which the cook are PRC ppl... they serve the most tasteless food ever

Singapore Satay still the best...kenot find in Malaysia wan

Singapore Satay is ok, but not the peanut gravy.

Katong Laska best place to eat them, at Katong. On the same road, there are 3 such stalls fighting for business, each slightly different from each other. Famous food war for many years. So call original, can't recall which stall..... but eat without SPOON? Do you know the reason why? Because they only want you to use the spoon to scope every one thing out into your mouth. That measn, you will likely sip the gravy - all of it by the time you finish the food.

Some places, Katong Laska is ...e.e.e.. to me, they simply abuse and use that name for the purpose of doing business. Eaten one such stall before. Another time, eaten at a branc, but the quality turn out to be... let down...

Agree, some food, the taste is already gone.... especially those cook by PRC people.... SIAN... what to do? But there are exceptional cases. For those who went Chinatown hawker.... most food.... I don't know what to say, more like what malls are selling and even the taste... gives em teh CHINESE taste rather than SG... .in the olden days.

As for taste bud.... I guess, much to each his own.... we are often bias to our own senses.. so can't compare much.. even my self, there are certain food I never like when I am in Malaysia. I won't say they are not good, but rather its teh uniqueness of the location... that the tastes evolve. So be it.... many of the foriegn food sold even in restaurants aren't really original, rather a tailored version to suit local. Even famous BKT in KL , the owner claimed that his version was learned from SG when he worked there (saw interview on SG TV).

i am grow up in johore, and go sg very often.

singapore food rocks! the falvour more original ingredient, less msg.

so if its fish soup, u get fish taste, not msg taste.

that why in sg there are so many good items like

bak chor mee
kuay teow thng
pai kut mee (soup)
fishball/fishcake noddle
cicken rice/ braise duck rice
char kuay teow/char kuay - sweet and dark, the way it should be eaten!
chwee kueh
hokkien char heh mee
fish porridge
chili crab original resipi not the mini crab in msia

i am shy when u all compare, ours foods kalah teruk cos way too spicy and no original ingredient tasty!

u all beibu ppl taste butt cannot accept nanbu foods.

ya man, the more the sweet sauce the nicer

sory i miss out the huanna/kelinga food, wo bu chi na xie dong xi de.

roti prata is super popular in sg. the maggi goreng there is epicness too

they stole prata from malaysia anyway.

but many food really is epic one. taste also tastier and more oomph flavour esp. the soupy;

did we steal prata from india?

no india has no such thing, they have variant used for meal, but roti canai is teh original breakfast item of malaysia. u go india cannot see breakfast ppl eat this, most they eat the toseh

are you mentioning MY or SG food?

This post has been edited by techmostwanted: Oct 12 2009, 12:36 AM

SG food, the soupy one is better than MY

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maybe you can list out the places and name of the food so we all can have a try there. I believe many malaysians in SG cant find a better food there, worst are those gon lou noodles . SO u can help us list out ur so called epic-food here. pretty much appreciated.


*the most disappointed was the Claypot chicken rice in chinatown, whereby my friend told me that we have to wait for an hour to cook for us, as there were too many people there. It is indeed look nice, kinda different from Malaysian one coz it has a lot of vegetables on top and we have to put the black soya sauce and some oil ourself. the first taste i tasted, i was like ......... ...holy....waited for an hour for this?

This post has been edited by techmostwanted: Oct 12 2009, 09:53 AM

many malaysian go down sg complen too bland

i personally grew up on clear soup noddles one, and so i go to sg, any hdb also got kway teow thng and all, fairly decent one. bak chor mee also staple diet for me in there.

if u like spicy, sorry la, perhaps m'sia food is d best.

those mainly old area food is usually good one like toa payoh/tiong baru or even in town, bugis area/ maxwell food court etc...

The satay in Singapore good liao...So do the Char kueh Tiew..remind me of Melaka style CKT wth sweet source...U can't find this in Penang wan

hmm, so...satay and kahtong laksa worth a try in SG. havent got chance to try it yet. by the way, all places almost the same taste or any specific area with best satay in SG?

Katong the pork satay already posted earlier by Vkeong & me..& The Ori katong laksa which till Today still dunno which wan has been clarified by bbmar....He is authentic Singaporean..

is juz laksa using bee tai mak la

Wat is Bee tai mak leh...Wah your nanbu hokkien I kenot understand liao

bee tai mak = loh shee fun

malaysia >>>>>>> singapore food

Wokkay..So If I wanna order the laksa..I will shout at the Unker..Wa ai Bee tai Mak laksa liao...

coz we don't have funny taste buds

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like the dai cao (in canto) in SG, the stir fried vege taste sweet one (they put sugar ar? )? and then the table serves with sweet soya sauce. and then now got sweet char kuey tiaow?


This post has been edited by techmostwanted: Oct 13 2009, 12:08 AM

Yup, S'pore CKT is sweet. It's fried koay teow with yellow noodle, with sweet dark sauce, bean sprout, cockles, prawn, chinese sausage, no ku chai..

techmostwanted, you going to be in S'pore for how long?

Southern /Nabu ppl prefer sweatness compare to Northern /peipu ppl having the Sour atste bud..Thus Northern luv Assam laksa whcih u hardly find in Southern region (melaka/Johor & Singapore)

I tell u until Today I hate assam laksa...yuckss

i am nanbu ppls. CKT no sweet i no rike!

Memang nanbu food taste different from beibu food.

Another example is the Fried Carrot Cake. Singapore style, black and sweet..

It takes time to get used to it (S'pore food). Esp if kena stay in S'pore for a long period (work/study).

i eated since small so no problem one.

Ya la, nanma ppl no problem with S'pore food. It's the beima ppl not used to it.

My cousin more than 10 yrs in S'pore still every time go back Penang buy Dark Soya Sauce, Five Spice Powder and Asam Ko...

went to lau pa sat last nite and tried 2 satay stalls.. fatman n stall no 7/8

fatman one.. the satay is using mashed meat of some sort.. making the skewers lacking in texture n tenderness... the sauce is lacking in peanuts n watery n oily too.

for stall 7/8, altho the meat is nicer, sauce is thicker n can see nuts, taste wise still lose to Malaysia satays. next is to try the other satays in other places.

after satay go eated fried oyster, said to be good by many sg bloggers, rating 4/5. but waffak i eat 1 mouth nia i nearly laffed because penang's is so much more awesome. theirs is no wok hei at all, chili also sour n watery.

ahkeong u so farnee la

lau ba sat satay is fail one, that y i nvr rekomen to u b4 lol.

ohr jian, mareshia better BUT sg got better and fresher oyster.

let me try to recall where i had a good one...

i dunno it's fail lor, i read the websites n blogs in sg, they all say lau pa sat satay is awesomeness. mana tau is tarp lulz. i agree the oysters are bigger n fresh, that's the only good thing lor

satay i remembered reading changi village got, you verify for me see see

One thing i beh tahan the sg food is the dim sum... no sweet sauce for dim sum?! OMFG i haven't eat any dimsum restaurant is without sweet sauce 1... and the chee cheong fun's sauce is... err... soya sauce anyone?

Others is still ok with me just a lil bit tasteless only... but good for health la...

in hong kong, dim sum are eaten directly wif no chili/sweet sauce

ya man. if u eated wif sos they stare at u!

Ocien..JB got big & juicy Ocien liao..damn shiok at Tmn Sentosa food court...dunno which stall liao...but hor, JB Ocien luxury standard wan..RM6/plate wth 5 biji Ocien nia!!

my plate $5 also 5 biji ocien only

KL rm10 the ojien smaller than siham

they using ocien kia, which i prefer more actually. large ocien, usually not fully cooked is a bit scary tasting for me

No wonder-lah JB go and copy SG..

aiyah, nowadays the Os in the Ocien are from freezer, frozen wan lah..

Frozen wan not fresh & juicy wan..that wan famus in Sitiawan..I hate Kg Cina ocien liao..all using frozen & non juicy ocien wan..But Johor & SG using super big ocien wan...& also klang...Melaka wan like siham kia..so small wan

Singapore got their O supplies from where?

I miss the ocien in Taiwan.. Even their potato chips comes in ocien flavour.

Instead of ocien, P. Ketam got lalacien.

The suppliers normally come from farms in Muar johor. But that's long time ago. Now I'm not sure.

i think muar/bp still supply many foodstuffs to singapore, more profit compare to supply to KL.