The last thing you’ll ever have to worry about in Singapore is Food. They are almost synonymous - Singapore and Food.

It’s not an understatement that you can find all kinds of foods here. And it doesn’t stop at the variety- the taste of the food in Singapore is recommendable and appreciated by Singaporeans and re-visiting tourists.

We really have all sorts of food here- Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, Indian, Korean, Mongolian, Italian and much more. But if you are here for a good period or even a day or two, you must dig in to some Singaporean delights or Singaporean Cuisine.

In this article, you’ll find some recommendations on popular dishes and their store locations:

1) Have you ever tried turtle soup? It’s an exotic dish that is cooked and served in a clay pot. Ser Seng Herbs (Turtle) Restaurant also recommends local favorite like their Double boiled Ginseng Soup.

Add: No. 29 Lorong Bachok (inside Geylang Lorong 21)
Opening hrs: 11.00am to 7.00pm (closed on Thursdays)

2) Fried Kway tweo is a big-time favourite among Singaporeans and re-visiting tourists. This dish consists of yellow rice noodles that are fried in dark and light soy sauce accompanied with eggs, chilli, prawns, bean sprouts, cockles and sometimes fish cake. This store declares their Fried Kway Teow to be non-oily.

Add: Sims Drive Market Centre # 01-20
Opening hrs: 11.00am to 3.00am (closed on alt Tuesdays)

3) Vegetarians, fret not! There is something for you as well! The Sin Min Vegetarian Food offers a variety of vegetarian dishes from pineapple fried rice, olive fried rice to Cedar shoot fried rice. Their herbal soup is known to be very healthy and delicious too.

Add: Blk 213 Bedok North street 1 #01-97
Opening hrs: 7.00am to 8.30pm

4) Itching for some seafood? Then head down to Sinma Live Seafood Restaurant where you’ll be begging for more of those chilli crabs and King Prawns in Butter pumpkin sauce. This restaurant is open till the wee hours of the morning- a great place to have some light supper. Other favourites to try are the Braised pork and Spicy salted silver fish.

Add: 163 Geylang Road Lorong 3 #01-01
Opening hrs: 5.00pm to 4.00am

5) The best 24-hour Malay food can only be found at RASA RASA Food Fiesta restaurant. A mixture of Thai and Muslim food, this place has plenty of scrumptious dishes ranging from Crab bee hun, (bee hun are boodles) Butter Sotong( sotong is squid) Crispy spicy chicken and their lethal Black pepper crabs.

Add: Blk 2A Woodlands Centre road #01-118

6) Another seafood joint not to be missed is the Jian Fa Seafood BBQ. Priding itself as Singapore’s best Chilli stingray, the chef of this restaurant has been cooking delicious Sambal kangkong, Grilled tiger prawns and Steam Promfret for the past thirty years. There are many local and international loyal customers that have labeled this is the, “best BBQ Seafood on our Sunny island!”

Add: Newton Hawker Centre Stall 46
Opening hrs: 5.00pm to 5.00am

7) If you spot a long queue spread across the bus-stop of 325 Balestier Road, you’ll know instantly that they are in queue for pigs liver. The all time favourite Bak Kut Teh store. Another local specialty and supposedly a healthy dish too! The Bak Kut Teh means Pork Ribs Soup. Pork ribs are boiled and stewed for a period of time and the soup is really tasty. This store has the best pork dishes ranging from Pigs trotters, Pigs intestines to Pigs liver. Pigalicious!

Add: 325 Balestier Road
Opening hrs: 24 hours!

8) You don’t wanna leave Singapore without trying Satay! Take a stroll along Lau Pa Sat and stop over at Singapore’s largest Satay stall called Satay Power @ no 6, 13 and 14. Satay power is the only stall in Singapore which offers special flavours for its prawns in BBQ garlic, Teriyaki to Black Pepper. Apart from satay, this stall also offers grilled and BBQ meat dishes and their signature Char-grilled BBQ honey chicken wings. The owners are so confident about their dishes that they have declared that if you don’t find their food delicious- you don’t need to pay! Sounds like value for money?

Add: 18 Raffles Quay, Lau Pa Sat Festival Market
Opening hrs: 5.00pm to 2.30am (Mon-Thurs) 5.00pm to 4.00am (Friday)

9) If you want something light and tangy, try digging into some Rojak. Rojak is a colloquial Malay word and it means jumbled or mixed up. So, this dish is a shuffle of a few ingredients- crunchy dough fritters, sliced turnip, pineapple, beans sprouts, shrimp paste, sugar, Chilli and tamarind paste. It comes in three different sizes- a $2 plate, a $3 plate and a $5 plate.

Add: 480 Toa Payoh Lorong 6 HDB Gourmet Paradise Basement Level
Opening hrs: 11.30am to 8.00pm (Mon-Fri) 11.30am to 4.30pm (sat)
Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays.

10) Kim Dae Mun Korean Cuisine serves good and affordable Korean dishes. This stall speacialises in their Tender Beef set, Spicy Chicken Set,  Kimchi Soup and Fried Saba Fish Set. Its got several branches spread out all over the island.

Add (North): Causeway Point, Horizon Foodmall #05-23/24
         (East) White Sands Shopping Centre Kopitiam #03-03
Opening Hours: 10.00am to 10.00pm