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Singapore's Top Ten Local Dishes

1- Chilli Crab

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1- Chilli Crab

Hard-shell crab cooked in a thick tomato and chilli sauce. It is best eaten with bread dipped in the gravy and is usually accompanied by other seafood dishes.

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2- Hainanese Chicken Rice

Smoked chicken served with flavoured rice cooked in chicken stock.

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3- Satay

Meat kebabs served with rice, cucumber and a meat gravy with peanuts.

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4- Laksa

Rice noodles in a curry and coconut gravy with prawns, eggs and chicken, garnished with cockles.

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5- Bak Kut Teh (we list the ingredients so that you do not order this dish, as it is unsuitable for Muslims)

Pork ribs cooked with five kinds of spices.

6- Roti Prata and Teh Tarik

Roti prata is a sweetened, crisp, firm pancake of Indian origin, specifically southern India, prepared with or without eggs and served with a bowl of thick gravy. Teh tarik is tea mixed with sweetened condensed milk, poured from one jug to another to produce a distinctive blend of tea and milk with a wonderful light, creamy froth. It is of Malay Southeast Asian origin.

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7- Rojak

A local salad of fruit and vegetables such as cucumber, bean sprouts, pineapple, white radish, fried dough fritters and dried bean curd, and sometimes mango and squid. The mixture is combined with shrimp paste and topped with peanuts.

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8- Fish Head Curry

The head of a large fish with vegetables cooked in curry and served with rice. Choose a glass of calamansi, the local lime juice, to drink with your meal.

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9- Char Kway Teow

Broad white noodles fried with a dark sweet sauce and bean sprouts, with fish cake, cockles and Chinese sauce.

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10- Fried Carrot Cake

Made with rice flour and white carrot (radish), fried with soy sauce, eggs, garlic and chai poh (pickled radish). Choose the sweet black cake or the savoury white one.

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