Singapore’s Hawker Food

With such a wide array of food available in Singapore, it can be overwhelming for first time visitors to pick something to eat. Thankfully, we've compiled a neat list with 8 of the Best Hawker Food in Singapore. Get ready to eat like the locals do!

A local favourite, kway teow, or flat rice noodles, are stir-fried with dark soya sauce and fish sauce to give a savoury and slightly sweet flavour. Beansprouts, and other vegetables are added in along with lap cheong (Chinese sausage), sliced fishcake and fresh cockles.

A variation of this dish which is almost equally popular is the Penang Fried Kway Teow, which features slightly thinner rice noodles, added prawns, and a more savoury and spicy flavour.

Stingray is barbecued and lathered with sambal paste, a Southeast Asian chilli paste, served atop a banana leaf. Squeeze a lime over it to cut through the richness of the stingray and sambal. A true staple in Singaporean hawker fare..

A far cry from the cream cheese frosted carrot cake, chai tow kway as it is called in Singapore, consists of fried cubes of radish cake with egg and sambal paste. Enjoyed all through the day by locals!There are two kinds of carrot cake, both equally delicious. Black carrot cake, which uses sweet soy sauce, with egg stir-fried into the dish, and white carrot cake, which is absent of the sweet soy sauce, with its radish cubes fried atop the egg to form a crust.

Prawn mee or prawn noodles, consists of egg noodles in a rich pork and prawn broth. Topped with sliced pork, or even pork ribs as shown above, prawns, lard and scallions, this hearty dish is a great lunch choice.

Another favorite local food: Hokkien noodles. Egg noodles and rice noodles are stir-friend together with egg, sliced pork, prawns, and pieces of lard. It is garnished with sambal and lime for a spicy and tangy kick. A popular dinner-time food, you can also balance the dish's oiliness with a glass of ice-cold sugar cane juice.

Arguably Singapore's quintessential dish, chicken rice is simple and delicious. So popular is chicken rice that its served everywhere in the country: from schools canteen to large restaurants to hawker centres.The entire chicken is poached in a flavourful broth, which is then use to cook the rice. The 'oily rice' is the star of the show, and can be served with either the poached chicken or a roast chicken. Three sauces are served on the side: a tangy chilli sauce, an oily ginger sauce, and dark soya sauce. Try a combination of these sauces or enjoy the rice on its own!

One of the staples of Malay food in Singapore and Malaysia, nasi lemak consists of rice boiled in coconut milk, served alongside fried chicken or fish, egg, begedil (a kind of potato croquette), and is garnished with peanuts, fried anchovies, and of course, sambal. Originally a breakfast food, nasi lemak has gotten so popular that it is now served throughout the day. Get ready to queue!

A popular dish in most Southeast Asian countries, satay is great for sharing. It consists of skewered, seasoned meats, like mutton, chicken, beef, or pork, grilled and served with a peanut dipping sauce. The peanut dipping sauce is so popular that it has even spun-off into a dish of it's own, served with rice vermicelli and seafood, called satay beehoon.