When you come to have your internship in Singapore, make sure to check out the local food. Now, let me introduce you guys what are the top 5 local food you should try in Singapore.
1. Hainanese Chicken Rice
Hainanese Chicken Rice is the most common yet unique iconic food that you can find in Singapore. The chicken is usually boiled and the rice is being cooked with the stock. While serving it to the customers, the chicken will be cut into pieces, drizzled over with light soy sauce and sesame oil, and topped with coriander leaf and sliced cucumber. Besides, the chicken rice is also served with chicken soup and several dips, including dark soy sauce, chili sauce, and ginger sauce.
2. Chili Crab
To all of the spicy food lovers, this freshly cooked crab with mouth-watering secret sauce might be your favorite local dish. It has been listed and ranked 38 on The World’s 50 Best Foods by CNN Travel in 2018. Besides, this national dish has a history of more than 60 years, and it all started in the early of 1950s where Madam Cher Yam Tian was experimenting the secret sauce, which is a perfect combination of tomato and chilli sauce, that uses to enrich the sweetness of crab meat.
3. Laksa
Laksa is a dish that can be found in Singapore and Malaysia, and it origins from the Peranakan culture which is a merger of Chinese and Malay cuisine. The types of noodles and meats that usually use in Laksa are rice noodles and rice vermicelli, and chicken, prawn, or fish.
4. Kaya Toast
Kaya is a jam that made from coconut milk, eggs, and sugar. Few pieces of toast with kaya and butter and cup of thick coffee is a completely perfect match. Locals usually have this for their breakfast in order to jump start their energy that needed for the day. Some of them even add on two soft-boiled eggs.
5. Bak Chor Mee
Bak Chor Mee literally means “minced meat noodle” in Teochew dialect. This delicious local dish has minced meat, mushrooms, and noodles in a dark vinegar sauce. For those who don’t like to eat the internal organs such as chicken liver, make sure to let the hawker know and they will prepare it in the way you prefer.
