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How do you find Singapore Food?
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There is no best. However certain stalls in certain centres are famous and people will travel across the island to eat from that stall. (Depends on the dish you are looking for though). Go to any hawker stall and during busy times look for the stall with the longest queue. That's the one to get in. 

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What a loaded question.
Hawker food - usually quite good at a very, very reasonable price. Be it economy rice, roti canai, nasi lemak, nasi padang, all the lovely curries at the mamat stalls etc.......
Seafood restaurants - huge variation on price and quality
Asian restaurants - a lot more localised than one would imagine and definitely not the variety that we find at home: Asian food without Asian flavour aimed at the 'no-clue' crowd
Western restaurants - usually good quality as many of the chefs and cooks are imports.
Fast-food places like Pizza Hut, Maccas etc... Same ingredients as at 'home', same recipe as 'home' and most ingredients flown in - - - same same
We're not in Kansas anymore
The mantra should be; This Asia, get used to it.
Hawker food - usually quite good at a very, very reasonable price. Be it economy rice, roti canai, nasi lemak, nasi padang, all the lovely curries at the mamat stalls etc.......
Seafood restaurants - huge variation on price and quality
Asian restaurants - a lot more localised than one would imagine and definitely not the variety that we find at home: Asian food without Asian flavour aimed at the 'no-clue' crowd
Western restaurants - usually good quality as many of the chefs and cooks are imports.
Fast-food places like Pizza Hut, Maccas etc... Same ingredients as at 'home', same recipe as 'home' and most ingredients flown in - - - same same
We're not in Kansas anymore
The mantra should be; This Asia, get used to it.
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'nuff said
'nuff said

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Not same same lah! Most fast food outlets here are certified "Halal" to cater to the muslim community. So your BK Bacon is actually processed turkey and your Ham and Salami toppings on Pizzas are actually chicken and gawd knows what! It ain't pork, that's all I know.Vaucluse wrote:Fast-food places like Pizza Hut, Maccas etc... Same ingredients as at 'home', same recipe as 'home' and most ingredients flown in - - - same same
That's why we only eat at Carls or Spizza for the good ol hangover cure.
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Hey, at least it's not meow-paudazzlebabe wrote:Yeah, I agree Ham is Ham, but they still call it a Hamburger and Mock Charsiew Pau etc. Sometimes, it's so confusing that I don't know if I am eating real PORK or CHICKEN or just plain ol' FLOUR!

"A quokka is what would happen if there was an anime about kangaroos."
Hamburger doesn't refer to the meat used.dazzlebabe wrote:Yeah, I agree Ham is Ham, but they still call it a Hamburger and Mock Charsiew Pau etc. Sometimes, it's so confusing that I don't know if I am eating real PORK or CHICKEN or just plain ol' FLOUR!
To extrapolate from your thinking Frankfurters would contain people from Frankfurt.
Berliner(s) would contain meat . . . from Berlin natives . . . etc etc etc
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Well Singapore got so many different varieties Of food, But then yet again
I'm not sure if it's just me or i find majority of the meat here sweet..
.. It's Kind of annoying as i recently tried this BBQ Chicken, Which was So sweet and i lost my appetite..
But oh well can't complain about everything ..
I'm not sure if it's just me or i find majority of the meat here sweet..


But oh well can't complain about everything ..
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my complain is about the food in singapore...
after few months i start to feel it taste good...not sure if i found the right place..or just got used to the taste...
i still dont like the fact that the food is very oily here
o well..at least in Singapore i dont have to hold on to my handbag..and (pardon my language) my rear inside peak hour train....
after few months i start to feel it taste good...not sure if i found the right place..or just got used to the taste...
i still dont like the fact that the food is very oily here

o well..at least in Singapore i dont have to hold on to my handbag..and (pardon my language) my rear inside peak hour train....
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pardon my french, but you must have a nice tushy...vbelle wrote:my complain is about the food in singapore...
after few months i start to feel it taste good...not sure if i found the right place..or just got used to the taste...
i still dont like the fact that the food is very oily here
o well..at least in Singapore i dont have to hold on to my handbag..and (pardon my language) my rear inside peak hour train....
...or those people in the train are just lechers.
"A quokka is what would happen if there was an anime about kangaroos."
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