If you live in Singapore, or anywhere where there's a big Indian population, you'll know all about Indian sweets. These sugary delights are enjoyed all year round but especially on important occasions. Weddings, births, and of course Deepavali. Everytime we are on a food tour in Little India we like to stop off at Moghul [...]
One of the most popular activities that we do on our corporate food tours is prata flipping. All over Singapore the sight of a hawker flipping prata is a regular thing. We eat prata for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Everyone has their favourite prata stall. Most believe that the perfect prata should be crispy. Indeed [...]
Zhong Yu Yuan Wei wanton noodles is one of Singapore's most famous noodle hawker stalls. Based in the Tiong Bahru market it has a constant stream of hungry customers coming to get their noodle fix. In a good plate of wanton noodles there are various factors at play. The springiness of the noodles, the texture [...]
The world is in a strange place at the moment. In Singapore we have been on lockdown since 7th April, a lot later than some countries. We can still order take out and delivery from most of the hawkers and shops that we visit on the food tours. We are blogging about our vendors and [...]
Almost everyone who comes through Singapore tries a Singapore Sling. Many of our food tour guests ask us where to get the best version. It's pretty much a given that the Raffles experience is the most popular. It's probably not the best due to the masses of tourists. We recommend South Beach Bar or 28 [...]
Our Katong Laksa is one of the most popular stops on our food tours here in Singapore. This dish is actually one of our national dishes. It is so important to us that we have even had Katong Laksa wars that you can read more about here. Obviously the actual recipe is a close guarded [...]
Singabites first came into contact with Phoenix Hill Tea Merchant back in 2016. We were doing a corporate food tour for a large multi-national company. We needed somewhere to have a tea tasting competition. Julie and Stephen, the owners were very accommodating. Ever since then we've been using them as a stop on our corporate [...]
One of the most popular stops on our Katong food tour has got to be Soon Soon huat. This curry puff shop is a third-generation business. Dennis and Mae are the husband and wife team that run the shop. They have a team of hard working family members and friends on hand to help out [...]
One of our most popular dishes in Singapore is Char Kway Teow. A lot of our food tour guests will always ask the guide about this dish. So, what is it? Kway Teow is our name for the flat rice noodles that are the star of this dish. The noodles are fried in light and [...]
We've mentioned in previous posts about Eng's wanton noodles. Back not so long ago there was only one stall. This made life easy for everyone. If you mentioned you were going to Eng's everyone knew you were going to the Eng's at 287 Tanjong Katong road. But times change, and now we have a few [...]