"we were craving something to eat, we happened to walk down the street, saw a lot of people eating grilled meat, it was meant to be" your a poet and you didn't even know it :D
The carrot cake thing is because in mandarin, both radish and carrots use the same term "Luo Bo" 萝卜, but with the color prefix on them. And why it is a cake, because these are steam in a large container and when it is taken out of the steamer, it is like a large cake, I mean some place still sell them in their steamed form in slices with with some sweet bean sauce and chili over it. In this case, it is broken up into small bite size pieces and then added preserved radish and eggs to fry them with some fish sauce, the black one simply has the sweet soy sauce added to it giving it that caramel taste, and the main flour in the steamed cake used is rice flour with grated radish, so you are right in calling them sauteed rice cakes. And the white noodles choice for the laksa definitely is rice based, in fact if you go to the famous katong laksa, it is probably more common to see their laksa eaten with the thick rice noodle.
Yes! I actually already posted one long form video from Singapore (the post before this) so if you want to see more Singapore content, make sure you watch that one too!
im Singaporean and i can say that you went to some of the best places for singaporean dishes. also its funny how this was posted on 10 august which is the day after sg national day
if you think lau pat sat and maxwell is best place for Singaporean dish then you probably ain't Singaporean at all HAHAAHAH they are still considered tourist trap, Old airport road, Bedok 85 etc hawker centre has more and cheaper
Regular portion of chicken rice is between $3.50 to $4.50. Large portion would be around $5 to 6. $10 to $12 would get you a 2 person portion with 2 rice. And half a chicken is around $14 to $16. Tian Tian is too touristy and overpriced. I'm sure 9/10 in line are tourists.
EXACTLY! I hate it that people say Singapore is expensive when they ONLY GO TO THE EXPENSIVE PARTS OF SINGAPORE, its a fucking tourist trap there! It will be even more expensive there compared to other SEA countries because the Singapore dollars is way stronger, heck its almost 3.5x stronger than our closest neighbour, Malaysia. But if you know where to look, which is rather easy honestly, there are LOTS of places to get cheap and good food, the places that the locals go to. Honestly, the food around me is so cheap and taste so good that I don't even cook at home.
Welcome to Singapore and glad to see visitors try out all types of hawker food, not every dish is suitable for everyone due to diversity of tastes and flavours. Anyway, most of the hawker centres such as Maxwell, Tekka or Lau Pa Sat are more "touristy" since they are always featured in vlogs and social media. They do have decent food, but generally more expensive and just average. The easy way to tell a "tourist" place vs a local place is by the visitors in that hawker centre. There are over 100 hawker centres in Singapore, just take a MRT to the heartlands and visit some places that are not already visited and recommended to death by the previous 100 youtubers.
Carrot cake is made from radish and rice flour. Radish in chinese is called white carrot.The regular orange carrot is called red carrot (again literal translation)...So the name is literally translated from the chinese name of the vegetable. Typically we will add more sambal chilli sauce into the laksa soup base and/or eat the sambal sauce with every spoonful of the noodles to get the extra spice and fragrance. If you have the food in other hawker centres than Lau Pat Sat and the restaurant branch of Hawker Chan, you would have more money left and more food to eat lol
The reason why you see those "don't fight in public" posters by the police at tekka center is not because people fight over food but more likely because of the Little India riot in 2013. There's even "liquor control zones" in Little India because of the 2013 riot
Nah, even before the riot, drunken rage fights between the foreign workers are pretty common especially during weekends and public holidays, which is why there are regular patrol done by APOs on ground to handle this incidences, but alas the time bomb finally blew and the little india riot happended.
The soup of the prawn noodile is made with boiled shrimp heads over a long time so that the flavour comes out. Probably with pork ribs bones thrown in. Obviously, coconut milk is different from cow's milk. Laksa soup is made of coconut milk. A typical dish/meal in Singapore hawker centre is between S$5 to 7 without a drink. So, it is about S$20 per day for 3 breakfast, lunch and dinner and a S$100 can stretch for 5 days in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
The first prawn noodles you tried are not stir-fried btw. You need to specifically look for Hokkien Fried Prawn Noodles for the stir-fried version, and it's made some what differently. The prata was probably $2.50 for two, and the chicken is $3.50. Laksa is traditionally eaten with the thick rice noodles, and those aren't scallops, they're cockles. The dish you called "roasted duck rice" is actually Braised Duck Rice from the looks of it. Roasted duck would have the nicely roasted skin on top. Really good video overall though, covering probably the best thing about Singapore. And yes, I am local. XD
"Carrot cake" is named that way because in Mandarin Chinese, we don't make a distinction between "carrot" and "radish"; they're the same word. Hope that helps!
Malay (an ethnicity) and Malaysian (a nationality) are different. Please stop saying we have “Malaysian food”. We have those, yes, but the local food is called Malay food!!
You haven't tried the hawker centres and coffee shops in the HDB residential areas yet, and shopping malls aircon foodcourts most are overpriced and below average quality food that locals eat near daily to save money, uncontrolled rental is the main culprit behind rising food prices
The dry prawn noodles are not stir fried, they are dry tossed noodles and you would need to toss them to evenly coat them with the seasoning before eating. The white noodles in laksa are rice noodles. Thick rice noodles are the default type of noodles for laksa though some stalls may give you the option to change them to yellow noodles.
the reason why chicken rice is "room temperature" because of the cooking method. It's steamed and then immediately put in ice to create the skin texture
fyi tyler, carrot cake is called carrot cake here because in chinese, both carrots and radishes are called the same thing, so we just directly translated it into carrots haha 😅
In Singapore, ordering a bowl of noodles is a lot more complicated than in other Asian countries. You have to specify the type of noodle (five to seven to choose from), whether you want it dry or with soup, and if it's dry, how much chili you want. If you don't want chili, the hawker will ask if you want ketchup. Finally, you have to say whether you want to eat there or take it away.
I really miss Lau Pa Sat😢 My dad used to sell bbq chicken wings and Malaysia food at Lau Pa Sat back in 2019. The Satay hawkers were really friendly and I even made friends with them while I was helping out at the stall.
the spoonful of chilli in the laksa is not just for spicy. Most times it doesnt really increase the spice too much but adds alot of flavor to the laksa overall since there is seasoning in the paste.
Finally!!! Americans who accept the name PRAWN noodles!!! We Singaporeans consider no matter the size or types to be classified as Prawns. I hac arguments with my other American friend.
Just want to add on tipping is not mandatory in hawker centres or anywhere really. For restaurants or more expensive places there is already gst (goods & service tax) added on your receipt. Tipping is just an option but I usually just do it.
Hey Chef Tyler, you should come to this coffeeshop next to the McDonald's opposite Bukit Gombak Station. The Indian food and Ice Teh is one of the best. Anyway, enjoy your visit to SG!
That prawn noodles is not stir fried, it is just dry noodles with some hot sauce. The stir fried prawn noodles is totally different thing. 😊 The chicken curry cannot be just a dollar by the way, probably a misinterpretation of the prices somehow. 😅 Carrot cake is not a dessert, it is rather a dish for an individual meal or as a side fish for sharing. 😊 Erm, there is definitely no Sichuan peppercorn in the peanut sauce for the satay. 😅 The most popular satay stalls at Lau Pat Sat are 7 & 8.
Hello! To all the people who are interested in the carrot cake and why it's name is like that. In chinese radish is called 白萝卜 which directly translates to white carrot. The dish itself comprises of stir fried - radish cake + eggs + sweet dark soy sauce (ingredients may differ based on stalls and their way of making them, what i listed is the more common ones found) The "radish cake" itself is made from radish+water+rice flour. The name of the dish in Chinese is called 萝卜糕. Remember from above, 萝卜 is carrot 糕 is cake! So Carrot Cake! If you would like to know more just comment below I would be glad to answer
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If you enjoyed this video, make sure you watch my other Singapore video where I turnned 2 iconic Singaporean foods into grilled cheese sandwiches 😊!
So go to malaysia
Just saying😅
I'm sorry what
@@Mrpotato-u3t…..
JK I am Singaporean and I also go there lol
"we were craving something to eat, we happened to walk down the street, saw a lot of people eating grilled meat, it was meant to be" your a poet and you didn't even know it :D
The carrot cake thing is because in mandarin, both radish and carrots use the same term "Luo Bo" 萝卜, but with the color prefix on them. And why it is a cake, because these are steam in a large container and when it is taken out of the steamer, it is like a large cake, I mean some place still sell them in their steamed form in slices with with some sweet bean sauce and chili over it. In this case, it is broken up into small bite size pieces and then added preserved radish and eggs to fry them with some fish sauce, the black one simply has the sweet soy sauce added to it giving it that caramel taste, and the main flour in the steamed cake used is rice flour with grated radish, so you are right in calling them sauteed rice cakes. And the white noodles choice for the laksa definitely is rice based, in fact if you go to the famous katong laksa, it is probably more common to see their laksa eaten with the thick rice noodle.
I’m sorry but I ain’t reading allat
Finally Singapore is getting recognition
Yes! I actually already posted one long form video from Singapore (the post before this) so if you want to see more Singapore content, make sure you watch that one too!
@@Chef__Tylerhello
As a Singaporean, Malaysia has much more good food you should go there sometime soon
Ikr
Fr i'm from Singapore and nobody talks about Singapore
im Singaporean and i can say that you went to some of the best places for singaporean dishes.
also its funny how this was posted on 10 august which is the day after sg national day
if you think lau pat sat and maxwell is best place for Singaporean dish then you probably ain't Singaporean at all HAHAAHAH they are still considered tourist trap, Old airport road, Bedok 85 etc hawker centre has more and cheaper
@@GN00001Lee in my opinion then ig
As a Singaporean, $9 for roasted chicken rice is overpriced
I think he bought a big portion probably enough for two, judging from the size of the box.
Regular portion of chicken rice is between $3.50 to $4.50. Large portion would be around $5 to 6. $10 to $12 would get you a 2 person portion with 2 rice. And half a chicken is around $14 to $16. Tian Tian is too touristy and overpriced. I'm sure 9/10 in line are tourists.
That wasn’t roasted chicken rice that was grilled cheese.
definitely
EXACTLY! I hate it that people say Singapore is expensive when they ONLY GO TO THE EXPENSIVE PARTS OF SINGAPORE, its a fucking tourist trap there! It will be even more expensive there compared to other SEA countries because the Singapore dollars is way stronger, heck its almost 3.5x stronger than our closest neighbour, Malaysia. But if you know where to look, which is rather easy honestly, there are LOTS of places to get cheap and good food, the places that the locals go to. Honestly, the food around me is so cheap and taste so good that I don't even cook at home.
Everywhere has cheap and good food even NYC and Switzerland
@@Johnne009 exactly, just do a bit of research and don't get baited into the tourist traps
Not sure what you include in "cheap and good" but I definitely can't think of anything in my current region in Canada. :')
Welcome to Singapore and glad to see visitors try out all types of hawker food, not every dish is suitable for everyone due to diversity of tastes and flavours.
Anyway, most of the hawker centres such as Maxwell, Tekka or Lau Pa Sat are more "touristy" since they are always featured in vlogs and social media.
They do have decent food, but generally more expensive and just average.
The easy way to tell a "tourist" place vs a local place is by the visitors in that hawker centre.
There are over 100 hawker centres in Singapore, just take a MRT to the heartlands and visit some places that are not already visited and recommended to death by the previous 100 youtubers.
Carrot cake is made from radish and rice flour. Radish in chinese is called white carrot.The regular orange carrot is called red carrot (again literal translation)...So the name is literally translated from the chinese name of the vegetable.
Typically we will add more sambal chilli sauce into the laksa soup base and/or eat the sambal sauce with every spoonful of the noodles to get the extra spice and fragrance.
If you have the food in other hawker centres than Lau Pat Sat and the restaurant branch of Hawker Chan, you would have more money left and more food to eat lol
The reason why you see those "don't fight in public" posters by the police at tekka center is not because people fight over food but more likely because of the Little India riot in 2013. There's even "liquor control zones" in Little India because of the 2013 riot
Nah, even before the riot, drunken rage fights between the foreign workers are pretty common especially during weekends and public holidays, which is why there are regular patrol done by APOs on ground to handle this incidences, but alas the time bomb finally blew and the little india riot happended.
The soup of the prawn noodile is made with boiled shrimp heads over a long time so that the flavour comes out. Probably with pork ribs bones thrown in. Obviously, coconut milk is different from cow's milk. Laksa soup is made of coconut milk. A typical dish/meal in Singapore hawker centre is between S$5 to 7 without a drink. So, it is about S$20 per day for 3 breakfast, lunch and dinner and a S$100 can stretch for 5 days in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
The first prawn noodles you tried are not stir-fried btw. You need to specifically look for Hokkien Fried Prawn Noodles for the stir-fried version, and it's made some what differently.
The prata was probably $2.50 for two, and the chicken is $3.50.
Laksa is traditionally eaten with the thick rice noodles, and those aren't scallops, they're cockles.
The dish you called "roasted duck rice" is actually Braised Duck Rice from the looks of it. Roasted duck would have the nicely roasted skin on top.
Really good video overall though, covering probably the best thing about Singapore. And yes, I am local. XD
"Carrot cake" is named that way because in Mandarin Chinese, we don't make a distinction between "carrot" and "radish"; they're the same word. Hope that helps!
Just to clarify, at 6:11, you had braised duck rice not roasted. You can't rly find braised duck outside of South East Asia :)
I really love a food channel where the host doesn’t just love everything they eat. Even if I disagree with you I like that you give honest opinions.
You are my favourite food RUclipsr and I’m a singaporean! Thanks for visiting Singapore! 😊❤
Definetly on my "must watch" list!
As a Singaporean, I see this as an absolute win
Malay (an ethnicity) and Malaysian (a nationality) are different. Please stop saying we have “Malaysian food”. We have those, yes, but the local food is called Malay food!!
Thank you for reviewing my country!
Thank you so much. We have so many who came and complain how expensive Singapore is. But like what you said, they just don’t know where to look.
really like these long forms man
You haven't tried the hawker centres and coffee shops in the HDB residential areas yet, and shopping malls aircon foodcourts most are overpriced and below average quality food that locals eat near daily to save money, uncontrolled rental is the main culprit behind rising food prices
The dry prawn noodles are not stir fried, they are dry tossed noodles and you would need to toss them to evenly coat them with the seasoning before eating.
The white noodles in laksa are rice noodles. Thick rice noodles are the default type of noodles for laksa though some stalls may give you the option to change them to yellow noodles.
the reason why chicken rice is "room temperature" because of the cooking method. It's steamed and then immediately put in ice to create the skin texture
love your vids man hope hacpoa doesn’t catch you lacking again❤
Singapore mentioned 🗣️🔥
I get weirdly happy seeing RUclipsrs visit Singapore
The rock paper scissors tournament for the last dumpling is so real! 😂
You clearly know nothing about Singapore,it does not happen at all
6:03 The duck rice stall is Wei Kee Boneless Braised Duck at 6 Tanjong Pagar Plaza
love your videos, your voice is so calming
(and it makes me crave cheese lol)
thanks for sharing this stuff i love your vids
Its called carrot cake because its directly translated from the vegetable's (radish) chinese name, which also happens to be carrot.
Always choose the thick white noodles for Laksa! It's more legit.
fyi tyler, carrot cake is called carrot cake here because in chinese, both carrots and radishes are called the same thing, so we just directly translated it into carrots haha 😅
OMG OMG OMG U CAME TO MY HOME COUNTRY TYSM TYLER
when u said Hawker Chan was overrated, i subscribed HAHAHA that place’s a tourist trap
Wdym
oh wow! it would have been so cool if you had uploaded it today (9th august) instead as it’s our national day! (essentially our 4th of july)
Maybe he needed time to edit it? I cant blame him but I hope he got to see our National day celebration!
yeahhhh. off topic but whats ur fav ndp song?
@@kittoesdoesrandomstuffthe road ahead is goated
I almost had a heart attack when I checked my phone and saw a Chef Tyler notification. I thought I missed it… Then I saw the premiere and I was ok.
Food all looks very tasty , great video dude:)
In Singapore, ordering a bowl of noodles is a lot more complicated than in other Asian countries. You have to specify the type of noodle (five to seven to choose from), whether you want it dry or with soup, and if it's dry, how much chili you want. If you don't want chili, the hawker will ask if you want ketchup. Finally, you have to say whether you want to eat there or take it away.
😂😂😂
My social anxiety can’t take this wth 😢
I think you missed trying a unique food . Maxwell Oyster Cake, truly Singaporean
Can’t wait for ur review of our airport
We just had our national day yesterday! XD
Go to Malaysia next!!!
Omg I can’t waittt!!
I really miss Lau Pa Sat😢 My dad used to sell bbq chicken wings and Malaysia food at Lau Pa Sat back in 2019. The Satay hawkers were really friendly and I even made friends with them while I was helping out at the stall.
Yooo wassup tyler, love from singapore!!!
Thats awesome. You are so good with using chopsticks 😊
thank you so much for coming to our country and eating our food!!!
the spoonful of chilli in the laksa is not just for spicy. Most times it doesnt really increase the spice too much but adds alot of flavor to the laksa overall since there is seasoning in the paste.
YOO SINGAPORE 🔥
As a songaporean, I can say that we love our food
Oh gosh you got to try hokkien prawn mees. One of my favorite noodle dish!
I bought an awesome steak dinner for three people for $100 in America.
Singapore is amazing
love your vids man hope hacpoa doesn’t catch you lacking again
Awesome as always thanks ❤
There needs to be a national grilled cheese day dedicated to chef tyler
There already is. April 12.
When you make grilled cheese put a dab of brown mustard in it to give it flavor
Hi . From a local's opinion, you hold chopsticks perfectly! :) And happy to know you enjoyed laksa! :)
Your making me hungry 😋
It is getting expensive, just that the amount you spend in other developing/ed countries are higher cos they don't do street food.
Finally!!! Americans who accept the name PRAWN noodles!!!
We Singaporeans consider no matter the size or types to be classified as Prawns.
I hac arguments with my other American friend.
The fact that they didn't try the briyani at tekka centre is criminal
Finally a smart tourist, instead of those attention seeking clowns that go to restaurants and say its expensive lmaoo
YOOO YOURE IN SG??? NICE
I like how the woman pronounce prata as Prada😅. You get a like from me!
The soft crouton is what we call youtiaos,you should try other foods,like briyani or chilli crab
1:14 "If boiled shrimp shells sounds appealing to you" Sir, have you never made seafood/prawn stock?
Just want to add on tipping is not mandatory in hawker centres or anywhere really. For restaurants or more expensive places there is already gst (goods & service tax) added on your receipt. Tipping is just an option but I usually just do it.
Hey Chef Tyler, you should come to this coffeeshop next to the McDonald's opposite Bukit Gombak Station. The Indian food and Ice Teh is one of the best. Anyway, enjoy your visit to SG!
That prawn noodles is not stir fried, it is just dry noodles with some hot sauce. The stir fried prawn noodles is totally different thing. 😊
The chicken curry cannot be just a dollar by the way, probably a misinterpretation of the prices somehow. 😅
Carrot cake is not a dessert, it is rather a dish for an individual meal or as a side fish for sharing. 😊
Erm, there is definitely no Sichuan peppercorn in the peanut sauce for the satay. 😅 The most popular satay stalls at Lau Pat Sat are 7 & 8.
Lol, Singaporean carrot cake is what I grew up with, and then western carrot cake really confused me! ("why are there *carrots* in dessert?!")
Hi, thanks for being correct about the 'carrot cake'. I know it is very confusing for some people 😅
Now I want to go to Singapore
All those grilled cheeses look great. What grilled cheese did you stay at? By the way do you speak grilled cheese?
Make a grilled cheese with a tiny grilled cheese inside the big one
Grilled cheese mech
6:05 Just a small correction, that's not roasted duck, that's braised duck rice :)
100 can fill you for at least 4 to 5days!
consider per meal $6 (meal)+ 2($drinks)
Singapore isn’t expensive. Its money worth 💰
5 stars. No drama.
@Chef__Tyler thanks for teaching me more about Singapore even though I have lived here for 14 years xD :)
Hello! To all the people who are interested in the carrot cake and why it's name is like that.
In chinese radish is called 白萝卜 which directly translates to white carrot.
The dish itself comprises of stir fried - radish cake + eggs + sweet dark soy sauce (ingredients may differ based on stalls and their way of making them, what i listed is the more common ones found)
The "radish cake" itself is made from radish+water+rice flour.
The name of the dish in Chinese is called 萝卜糕.
Remember from above, 萝卜 is carrot 糕 is cake! So Carrot Cake!
If you would like to know more just comment below I would be glad to answer
Nice, did you manage to try some desert or insect?
Let’s goooooo
Yò nice vid why only 500 views?
The white noodles actually are the rice noodles! Its what people normally put in laksa! (not tryna be mean)
Awsome
I was born in Singapore and I recommend the chicken rice
Tyler day I forgot of asking you to make a playdoh grilled cheese
Hey chef tyler singaporean here
We will make sure to protect u from hacpoa in singapore
Shout out to all my sg citizens watching
The Chinese name their radish “white carrot” so that’s why the radish dish is called carrot cake.
White noodles are rice noodles.
Pls try some mini wok it’s probably the best soup in Singapore
Waiting for boiled shrimp shell grilled cheese
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Dear, did you mix the prawn noodles before trying? ..the flavours are at the bottom..need to mix from bottom first.That's how you do it.
duck rice is not a version of chicken rice. They're hardly related
Could u make a Full Video around cheesesteaks and Kings Rolls