Singapore- Food
The other part of Singapore food- aside from all the grocery store items is just the restaurant food! We always try to eat new things and sometimes (often) make the mistake of ordering things incorrectly. For example: This meal should’ve been ordered with lots of rice.
We ordered no rice. It was still delicious!
We also discovered the Kachang Which is a mountain of flavored shaved ice with fruit mush and jellies and redbeans all on top of it. It is huge and delicious but in a weird what-am-i-eating way. My brain wasn’t really sure what to do with it.
Didn’t stop us from finishing it though.
One night Connor, Will, Alex and I went to a Thai BBQ. This is very much like Korean BBQ except the top of the grill is rounded. This makes delicious soup but veeerrry tricky to cook everything.
Needless to say with no instruction we did it wrong. We should’ve had more of an order to the way we cooked things but we sort of just did a free for all…
You pour water/broth into the base and then cook various meats/ fish/veggies on the top bit.
They gave us some fat to rub on the grill to keep things from sticking but we only noticed it after we had eaten… The water then collects all the cooked juices and you cook the veggies in it and it makes a really good soup.
If we had to do it again we would do it a lot differently but as it was no one got food poinsing and everyone was fed so it worked out.
There was a lot of “prawning” restaurants around…this is basically where you go fishing in these big pools and catch prawns. Then you cook and eat them right away! We didn’t do this but we observed. Very interesting
At one point Alex went to the market with the Airbnb host so she brought some duck and rice for lunch- amazing. She said it was very overwhelming and it would be best to go with a local if you can.
And “pancakes” filled with peanut butter and brown sugar they were like a cross between crepes and American pancakes.
The biggest thing Alex and I found was Bao or Pau. These light fluffy cloud
dumplings are the most delicious things in the world and in the Sun Plaza which is right near the ship yard and a major train stop there is the best restaurant.
It’s on the lower level and they have several different kinds of Pau. The Big Pau is my favorite.
It is a cloud dumpling filled with a meat/ veggie/ egg mix and it is delicious. We ate so many I was surprised that by the end of dry dock we weren’t Pau ourselves!
The Char Siew Pau is filled with orange pork and is almost as delicious as the Big Pau. Seriously so good.
