Geylang/Joo Chiat
Geylang Pasar
Found here are hawker stalls with delicious meals, snacks and drinks, the wet markets with freshly butchered meats, fish, fruit & veg, and just about anything your culinary heart desires. Upstairs are more hawker stalls and textile stalls, selling breezy tunics, dresses, and silky materials for dressing of head.
Putu Piring & Bandung
- Putu piring is a round steamed rice flour snack, lightly compacted while it is steamed in a specialised setup. The small round is filled with thick, gooey gula melaka (palm sugar), and served with desiccated coconut. A light and delicious snack
- Bandung is a popular drink in Singapore comprised of evaporated milk, water and a bandung; a rose flavoured syrup or powder. Sweet, creamy and uplifting.
Carrot Cake
You’ll very quickly notice that this is indeed not the carrot cake you might picture when you hear the name. The “carrot” in this dish is actually radish! Daikon radish is combined with water and rice flour to make a slightly chewy and soft mochi-like texture. The ‘cakes’ are then chopped into cubes, and fried with eggs, preserved radish, soy sauce and other seasonings. Super, super good stuff.
Pisang Goreng
battered and deep fried plantain/banana! How can you go wrong?
Kim Choo Kueh Chang
No. 60 Joo Chiat Pl
Bak Chang
“bak chang” are glutinous rice dumplings filled with savoury or sweet fillings and wrapped in lotus leaf.
Popular Chinese legend has it that the origin of this dumpling came about after Chinese poet and politician Qu Yuan committed suicide after learning of the capture of his country’s capital Ying. It is said that he waded into the Miluo River carrying a rock. Villagers carried their dumplings on boats to the middle of the river and tried to save Qu Yuan, but were too late. To ward off evil spirits, they splashed the water with their paddles, beat their drums and threw rice into the water as food and offering to Qu Yuan’s spirit, and to deter the fish from his body. Legend continues that late one night, the spirit of Qu Yuan appeared before his friends, and asked them to wrap their rice into three-cornered silk packages to ward off danger. These packages became a traditional food known as zongzi or bakcang, glutinous rice cakes with various fillings, wrapped in leaves.
Fei Fei Wanton Noodle
One of the most popular wanton noodles stores in the East of Singapore. I didn’t pop in to try anything on this day, but I’ll be back before my trip is over for some delicious wanton mee.
National Gallery Singapore
If you’re in need a of a break from traipsing around stressfully, freaking out about lord knows what like I do; come to the National Gallery and chill out.
Guan’s Mee Pok at Capitol Mall
Once again, on the expert advice from my local friend Richard; I made my way to Guan’s Mee Pok, not far from the National Gallery. These pork noodles were delicious.
Funan Mall
A brand new mall here in SG, and quite a spectacle at that. This mall comes complete with a bike path and a rock climbing wall.
Clarke Quay Bridges and Boats
Don Don Donki
Oh my g o d
Direct from Japan, Don Don Donki is a chain of Japanese retail shops. This place is Daiso on steroids. The one found near Clarke Quay takes up the entire basement level. Snacks, sauces, confectionary, hot food such as omu rice, takoyaki, fresh fish sashimi platters and nigiri, fresh produce, alcohol, cosmetics… everything.
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