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So I posted a challenge to some fellow food bloggers to find a unique, strange, interesting, never-seen-before hawker food, possibly found in a lone stall in some hawker centre or coffee shop. Thus, the hashtag #UniqueHawker After a very long search, this is my discovery – a stall at Hong Lim Market called the “Famous [...]

This is my second time to Tom’s Citizoom Mee Pok Tar, and I was caught a little by surprised when Tom remembered who I was “Yes Daniel, what’s your order? How many hawkers remember their customer’s name after two visits? Tom is a 28-young old ‘Ah Boy” (he still looks like he is 22) who [...]

There behind an inconspicuous stall at the food court is this youngish-looking 30-something, who wears a straw hat, tight purple shirt, silver shoes and accessorized with a self-designed pendent. Never would you ever imagine that a former artistic director and fashion stylist would switch jobs to sell… yong tau foo! And at all places, a [...]

Old Bibik is a new stall at Lavender Food Square serving chicken and beef rendang, made from a secret recipe which has been passed down 3 generations. A serving of this stall’s beef rendang ($5.50) comes with rice, stir fried long beans, a slice of omelette, papadum and tender chunks of mouthwatering rendang drenched in [...]

Tong Xing Ju 同心居 Special Shanghai Tim-Sum used to be from Queenstowns Margaret Drive Food Centre, and is known to serve delicious Shanghainese style dumplings, noodles and soup. The hawker stall had been frequently featured on television and earned several positive reviews, but few know of its whereabouts after the food centre at Queenstown was [...]

Alexandra Village Food Centre is one of those hawker centre gems that is not so populated, underrated, and filled with above-average hawker stalls. Interesting, I noticed many customers ordering various claypot dishes of bak kut teh, sausage rice, mushroom chicken, prawn noodles and pork trotters. You can almost call Alexandra Village Food Centre a “claypot [...]

What better way to celebrate Singapore’s 47th National Day than with a buffet with the best of Singapore’s signature hawker fare. Silver Shell Café at Shangri-La’s Rasa Sentosa Resort is having a Good Ol’ Days buffet with a touch of nostalgia, which is timely and refreshing. Chilli crab, bak kut teh, laksa, prawn mee, rota [...]

Wee Nam Kee has been known for its Hainanese dishes, especially its flavourful chicken rice and tender chicken meat pieces. Its main store opposite Novena Church has been attracting crowds of supporters, many claim that this is the best Hainanese chicken rice n Singapore. Since 1989, the two generations of Wees have proudly preserve the [...]

Fans of Malaysian hawker street fare do not have to travel north anymore for a taste of mouth-watering dishes, but south instead over to Resorts World Sentosa. As Resorts World is under Genting, it ‘feels right’ for them to bring in these authentic Malaysian dishes over. Critics may say that street food in another country [...]

Tian Tian Chicken Rice, known to be Singapore’s top chicken rice and featured on Anthony Bourdain’s programme No Reservations, had lost its ‘Master Chef’. The man, better known as Ah Tai, who has been cooking the famed Tian Tian Chicken Rice set up another chicken rice shop just 3 stalls away at Maxwell. His stall [...]