"Singapore hospitality is all about recommending their favorite places to eat" - hahahaha so true! we love our food and one of our greatest expression of love and friendship is to share that love with you :)
Southern US Hospitality is like that, too. Everytime someone says they're thinking about going to Louisiana (a State in the US, it's the one that looks like a boot on the map), I *always* recommend my favourite places and dishes to eat to them.
this just feels like Asian Hospitality in general, we all bond over food and sharing our favorite spots. In Taiwan, one traditional greeting literally translates to, "Have you eaten yet?"
To be honest, if you met me on your vacation/whatever in my part of Texas, I might start with "how was your trip" but I would definitely work in recommendations for where you just need to eat while here.
that's the brunoise light brown bits; a small packet of it is about S$1. The chef will have a fav version as it can range from sweet to very salty. In its original country, there are places where it is a family treasure that is 10, 20, 30, 40 years old.
I'm from Argentina. I know NOTHING about Singapore (other than my personal interest in Lee Kuan Yew) but thanks to this video I have now added "eat everything and everywhere in Singapore" to my bucket list. It's extremely far away, but I'm sure I'll make it someday.
The crazy irony is that I found Sorted Food whilst searching for chicken rice recipes and thought to myself what on earth gave these Englishmen the guts to put out such a video. Fast forward 6 years and I haven't missed a single video since. Kudos boys ❤🎉
Cake is the colloquial translation for Chinese, Malay, Indian "confections" (including Steamed puddings, that can be based on Rice flour, Wheat flour, Eggs, Ube, Yam, etc) - vs. Cake being a specific type of baked good. So the cake in carrot cake is a steamed rice flour based "cake" that has Daikon (White carrot literally in Mandrin)', akin to how pumpkin is in pumpkin pie filling. It imparts some taste, texture and acts like a structural mesh for the gel.
Hainanese chicken is poached and then shocked in an ice bath to achieve that texture. The confusion about boiling/steaming mostly stems from people not being native speakers back in the day and having to speak 3-4 languages. Similarly, Chinese "roast" poultry is typically deep fried instead. Carrot cake comes from the Chinese name for daikon radishes which literally translates to "white carrot", like how the common term for tomatoes translates literally to "foreign aubergine" or how one term used for potatoes translates to "ground bean".
I always love all your travel videos! Doesn't matter where you go, just so you go and report to us. I had never heard of any of these dishes before. What fun!
@@SortedFood carry on closh anyone?! my default is to look through your old travel videos to see if there are any good recs for the locations Ive booked. Love them!!!
I was eating carrot cake (the black version) while watching the video HAHAHA and as a Singaporean it was definitely cool to see my country featured!! Hope y'all enjoyed your stay here 😊😊
I only recently, in the last few weeks, discovered your channel. It is lovely to see how you encourage a whole community to try new things, enjoy cooking, and have fun doing it. My skills in the kitchen, which were not great, have improved by so much since I started watching. Thank you to the whole team for all that you do.
My spouse is originally from Singapore, and I visited her there over 20 years ago, before she moved to the US so we could get married. I was vegetarian at the time and I ate _so much_ delicious food from hawker centers grocery stores. I remember getting supermarket sushi that was unbelievably good for such, and had vegetarian varieties that I've never seen on this side of the Pacific (I'm American).
Singaporean hawker food stalls is some of the best food you will ever have in your life. When I was there back in the 90's, it was what introduced me to so many amazing foods from different cultures around Asia. Foods I still seek out and enjoy today.
So very chuffed that the lads from Sorted are in my homeland trying our food! Enjoy the many flavours, cuisines and cultures that you will encounter, gentlemen! Buon appetito! 👍🏼😄
My partner and I decided to pop by Uncle Louis's at Maxwell right after watching this video. Let me tell you, when Ben said that he could eat a whole plate of that rice, he wasn't kidding. It was just that good! 😂 Thanks for the recommendation SortedFood! Even as locals, we do miss some of these hidden foodie gems, so I'm glad that you guys brought them into the spotlight :)
So glad you came and loved our food!! As a Singaporean currently studying overseas, your video made me miss chicken rice soooo much more 🥲 Please come back again! Old Airport Road has so many hidden gems that you NEED to try!
My brain hurts from reading auto captions all weekend in the live weekend trying to keep up with what’s happening, so human captions are very appreciated. Once again, thank you to the person who writes them for all videos, very appreciated ❤
@@SortedFoodthere’s been some interesting mistakes, kush’s black pudding scotch egg was a black pudding Ronnie Scott and I had to ask the lovely other chat folk for help as not even I could work that one out 😂
The “carrot cake” doesn’t use carrots but daikon instead! The confusion comes from the Chinese name for carrot, which literally means “foreign daikon” since carrot is not native to China but daikon is. Therefore, sometimes carrot and daikon (and other turnips in general) are all referred to by the same name
Depends on where you are in the Chinese-speaking world, of course -- many vegetables of foreign origin have different regional Chinese names. In some parts of China, carrots are referred to as "red daikon." Of course, that name produces the exact same confusion.
@@allmyhomieshatefreud5501 It's not, as far as I can tell. I have heard 紅蘿蔔 for my whole life. I heard 胡蘿蔔 for the first time in my life last year, when I was 39.
@@andrewhcit I’ve always heard both terms pretty much interchangeably, with 胡萝卜 being a tad more official. Either way we can agree that the Chinese language has a habit of using the names of familiar, native species to call unfamiliar, introduced species, instead of inventing a new character all together. This is how you get business goose or fire chicken!
@@allmyhomieshatefreud5501 Oh, definitely. BTW, Wiktionary has maps showing where the various Chinese names for potato and tomato are commonly used. They have interesting regional distributions. Unfortunately I can't find a similar map for carrots.
After living in Sing for a few years I went back and learned to make the HCR. even the chili and garlic sauce. my favorite way is to dip the chick in the chili sauce and spoon it with rice. then dip it all in the soup and eat.....I made it for my family for thanksgiving with Malaysian cinnamon chicken wings...best thanksgiving ever. I miss singlish and Singaporeans.
Chicken rice is indeed one of our best hawker dishes, but hope you all also had the braised duck rices with yam rice! Frankly, sg hawker food is so amazing that you could make so many episodes on it
I know you guys have been doing this for many years but I’m always so impressed by the way that you all describe the things you eat and do a really good job of bringing whoever is watching the video along for the ride.
As someone who lived in Singapore for quite some time and don't anymore....(in UK now😅) I always say the one thing I miss about Singapore is the food... particularly the hawker centre ones! Lived in a place where I had a Chinese shop below my apartment. Char kway teow was a atleast-once-a-week dish for me!!
In the Cantonese language, carrots are called "red radish". Again in Cantonese, "radish" refers to the large root vegetable also known as Daikon in Japanese. I think for this reasoning that carrots and daikon are named similarly in Cantonese is why what is actually daikon/radish cake is known as "carrot cake".
Happy you got to try Singaporean food! We're spoilt for choice here! You guys picked some of my favourite dishes, although I'm team black carrot cake 😂 Looking forward to seeing the other videos, hopefully you tried some great Malay and Indian food too~
Re chicken rice: the roast chicken is comparatively easy to get right; the steamed chicken is easy to screw up. Therefore, here's a rule of thumb that hasn't failed me yet: if you go to a place with less than 3.5 stars on Google, order the roast chicken; if it has 4 or more stars, order the steamed. Edit: Also Uncle Louis has been flying under the radar for awhile - ashamed to admit I hadn't heard of his chain - but he must be very confident to open in a place like Maxwell where the heavyweights operate. For those who aren't aware, before the pandemic there were two "big name" chicken rice stalls there, Tian Tian and Ah Tai, along with a bunch of imitators. The question of which is better is something of a religious debate, but now it seems there's a third option. Edit (again): whilst on the subject of pork ribs, for contrast, another popular local dish is coffee pork ribs. It can be interesting to order them side-by-side with the salted egg ones and compare the taste.
@@SortedFoodwell… I’m going to need the entire list of everywhere you ate then. And I might have to swap a road trip through Scotland for some travel through Asia. 👀
@@SortedFoodAs a S'porean I feel happy that u enjoy it.Sorry tho for the 30 mins walk just to find the merlion undergoing repair work,...maybe u cn ask Mike to dress up as a merlion again?
When i was in Bologna my husband and i booked a foodie tour. A local took us and other travelers to try different restaurants. Because you're in a group you can share dishes and thus try more. Also the local guide new so much fun facts about the city and the food. They had obviously picked excellent places with dishes I had never heard of. Be on the look out for those things, they do that in many places
Been following your channel for years. Very happy to see you guys here trying our local foods. Hoped you’ve enjoyed yourselves and Welcome to Singapore and do come back again ❤❤
So stoked and feeling so surreal to have you guys in my lil home city. The whole hawker culture (including the technique and slogans used for placing efficient food orders) is definitely a local highlight. Big fan of your channel and Ben's cute allotment videos.-emily
I hope to see you try the famous chili crab, and to compare it with the black pepper crab! We also have a lot more hawker foods like laksa, Hokkien mee, satay, kaya toast, nasi lemak, bbq stingray, bak kut teh, bak chor mee, ice kachang, rojak, Chwee kway and popiah! But also, you can try curry puff and durian if you dare haha
Bib Gourmande is my fave. Love that it brings less of the Michelin pressure, but all of the amazing tastes. Some of my most enjoyable eating experiences were in restaurants who had a bib gourmande.
funny, your intro was our exact experience with the Merlion. In 2018(?), we walked around 10 or so minutes, and only when we were near enough did we realize that the bordered-up part was the thing we wanted to see. You should try the ice cream sandwiches they sell near that area, it's refreshing.
i have been a fan for years and cannot imagine u guys have not been to SG! this episode is everything. cant wait to see more and glad you went to a better chicken rice stall. The one who recommended the far east stall needs to be torched! in fact, the next door stall (of that far east chicken rice) fish slice noodle is more yummy than the chicken rice. If is still there.
that carrot cake reminds me of one of my favorite dishes that is usually served at a traditional chinese dim sum, pan fried radish cake. it's something my mom would sometimes cook, and the crispy but soft texture is so good.
Yes, the underlying "radish cake" is the very same thing. However in Singapore/Malaysia the radish cake has been combined with other goodies to form a dish that can be consumed as a whole meal. ........ Further in Singapore, there is a distinctive "dark" version using a sweetish black soy sauce. Some hawker stalls might be willing to give you half of white and half of black on your plate.
I love this type of video, right up there with the old fridge cam and pass it ons and the very old orignals normal battles . More relaxed and easy going style. Would love to see more of these.
Love that you guys went to the malls to have food, it’s not just our hawkers that have the best things! I also totally agree with the hollandaise parallel, that’s such a food one.
I’m sure you had a 100 or more other people recommend it too, but was very happy to see you went to Hainanese Delicacy in Far East Plaza! A hidden gem indeed (hidden from foreigners that is haha).
I work for a 3rd party food company (compass) they do free lunches when I am at the office and the best dish you can get is “Singapore chicken and rice” and boy did it make me happy seeing you guys having the real thing
I am so glad that you finally tried the carrot cake!!! I suggested it to you forever ago!!!! Some stalls you get an option of white or black sauce on it and the black sauce is sweeter! Hope you try it again :)
I just had to watch this even though it's the middle of the night here in Singapore! I'm so happy that you got to try the salted egg pork rib at my favourite stall!
I used to love "roast" chicken rice when I was a kid, but grew to love the Pak cham Gai aka poached chicken. I honestly did not think the salty egg spare ribs was around for long, as it was not available while I still lived back home. But nowadays anything salted egg is good :D
As a vegetarian, scaredy cat, introvert homebody I’ll probably never have/want these experiences but it’s still fascinating to see your enthusiasm and appreciation for other cultures
Here in Sydney, if you want great Asian foods you can find them in some food courts. That's why I'm surprised to hear that's not the case in the UK. Char Kuay Tiau / Hainan Chicken Rice are easy to find here. There are lots of places with good version of them and other Singaporean/Malay/Asian foods.
The 'carrot cake' is really a misnomer of turnip (daikon) cake, with the ambiguity likely coming from the fact that turnip in the foreign carrot in Chinese is just called the 'red turnip'! Turnip/carrot cake is common in the Chinese-speaking world and, made with more luxury ingredients (ham, dried seafood), is popular for Lunar New Year festivities
the carrot cake (菜头粿Chai Tau Kway) is the made from Glutinous Rice Flour , Radish (mainly) and carrot. preserved radish(菜脯 Chai Por)/ garlic/ spring onion is very important in this dish oil too but the type of oil is depend on the store you purchase from last and not less is egg (Some use duck egg cause it taste better, but now chicken egg is frequently use) Black is sweet and white is savory.
Char kway teow is my favourite food. What I love most about it is that every stall has their own taste. But I also hope you tried laksa when you were there.
I go to Singapore and stay there for a weekend with the family while staying in Malaysia and I tend to go for Street Food. Their food are my favourite. You should visit Malaysia and try the street food.
the "sweetness" comes from chopped preserved radish bits(daikon), it is sweet and salty. So there is "double daikon" representation in carrot-cake, the steamed flour daikon cake + preserve raidish
The reason why it has been named carrot cake is because the main ingredient is radish, which when translated from Mandarin, is “white carrot”. The sweetness comes from preserved/pickled radish, which also gives the entire dish a somewhat crunchy texture…
Oh also boys singapore is a culture hotspot and you only had mostly chinese dishes, please PLEASE come back and have some malay or indian food or even peranakan
I was so happy when this video was announced on the livestream. When my girlfriend and I saw you guys went to Far East Plaza for the chicken rice, we were hoping you had also gone to New Station to try their salted egg yolk pork ribs!
I spent a month in Singapore earlier this year and was excited to try to recognize all the places. Turns out there are SO many hawker stalls, it’s hard to tell them apart in your videos. (Sniff.) Hope you enjoyed your trip even half as much as I did mine!
@@chesca7295 It’s expensive, no question. The most affordable thing to do is avoid the supermarkets entirely and stick to the food courts in the housing communities for all your meals and food shopping needs. That’s where all the non-millionaire locals live and shop. If you’re adventurous, there are tiny bed units for rent in the Chinatown district near downtown for housing. Otherwise it’s less expensive to get a hotel further away from downtown. Singapore discourages car ownership so using public transit to get around the city is fast and affordable no matter where you stay.
@@karennoneyabeeswax7929 haha cautious with hotel tbh. Lots don't have windows which is interesting. Supermarket was just for staples tbh, hot chocolate and little snacks I can bring back to the UK 😂😁
We are so glad you are enjoying your time in Singapore! 🥰 Please come back again!
Why didn't you highlight the dishes of other cultures or races they should try? Don't we pride ourselves on being multi-racial?
the salted egg pork rib has curry leaves, that's the little courtesy they give to minorities 🫢@@mau579579
@@mau579579 were they even sponsored by visit sg? it seems like the places they showed were wat ppl reco them
@@mau579579 why don't you do it? you not singaporean meh?
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"Singapore hospitality is all about recommending their favorite places to eat" - hahahaha so true! we love our food and one of our greatest expression of love and friendship is to share that love with you :)
Southern US Hospitality is like that, too. Everytime someone says they're thinking about going to Louisiana (a State in the US, it's the one that looks like a boot on the map), I *always* recommend my favourite places and dishes to eat to them.
this just feels like Asian Hospitality in general, we all bond over food and sharing our favorite spots. In Taiwan, one traditional greeting literally translates to, "Have you eaten yet?"
To be honest, if you met me on your vacation/whatever in my part of Texas, I might start with "how was your trip" but I would definitely work in recommendations for where you just need to eat while here.
the sweetness from the fried carrot cake is from diced preserved radish! its commonly called cai pu / chai poh / chye poh, 菜脯 ☺️
Ahhhhhh that's super interesting, thanks for letting us know :)
There's also a dark version!!
Also, there are 2 types of it, there's a salty one and a sweet one. Both are usually mixed in some ratio depending on the stall's recipe.
In Chinese, raddish is called white carrot. That's probably why it's called carrot cake.
that's the brunoise light brown bits; a small packet of it is about S$1. The chef will have a fav version as it can range from sweet to very salty. In its original country, there are places where it is a family treasure that is 10, 20, 30, 40 years old.
I'm from Argentina. I know NOTHING about Singapore (other than my personal interest in Lee Kuan Yew) but thanks to this video I have now added "eat everything and everywhere in Singapore" to my bucket list. It's extremely far away, but I'm sure I'll make it someday.
Yes the Merlion was on a short hiatus. Glad y’all enjoyed our food! Pretty spot on in terms of the food itinerary. Enjoy!
The crazy irony is that I found Sorted Food whilst searching for chicken rice recipes and thought to myself what on earth gave these Englishmen the guts to put out such a video.
Fast forward 6 years and I haven't missed a single video since. Kudos boys ❤🎉
Cake is the colloquial translation for Chinese, Malay, Indian "confections" (including Steamed puddings, that can be based on Rice flour, Wheat flour, Eggs, Ube, Yam, etc) - vs. Cake being a specific type of baked good.
So the cake in carrot cake is a steamed rice flour based "cake" that has Daikon (White carrot literally in Mandrin)', akin to how pumpkin is in pumpkin pie filling. It imparts some taste, texture and acts like a structural mesh for the gel.
BUT WHAT IS PUDDING?!
Aaahh... I keep searching for the hint of orange from the carrot in that carrot cake, "white carrot" make more sense 😅
Also interesting is that a "regular" carrot is often referred to as a red carrot or red radish in Chinese
@@werbnaright5012 Google spotted dick. The English understand what puddings are hahaa
@@werbnaright5012 One of the local varieties of pudding is soy beancurd.
Hainanese chicken is poached and then shocked in an ice bath to achieve that texture. The confusion about boiling/steaming mostly stems from people not being native speakers back in the day and having to speak 3-4 languages. Similarly, Chinese "roast" poultry is typically deep fried instead. Carrot cake comes from the Chinese name for daikon radishes which literally translates to "white carrot", like how the common term for tomatoes translates literally to "foreign aubergine" or how one term used for potatoes translates to "ground bean".
I always love all your travel videos! Doesn't matter where you go, just so you go and report to us. I had never heard of any of these dishes before. What fun!
So glad you enjoy this style of video..... we love to explore and find these awesome foodie places.
@@SortedFood carry on closh anyone?! my default is to look through your old travel videos to see if there are any good recs for the locations Ive booked. Love them!!!
I was eating carrot cake (the black version) while watching the video HAHAHA and as a Singaporean it was definitely cool to see my country featured!! Hope y'all enjoyed your stay here 😊😊
I only recently, in the last few weeks, discovered your channel. It is lovely to see how you encourage a whole community to try new things, enjoy cooking, and have fun doing it. My skills in the kitchen, which were not great, have improved by so much since I started watching. Thank you to the whole team for all that you do.
Welcome to the community!
They make you braver with your own food, and it's a very good thing. I hope you enjoy it here.
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Welcome. I highly suggested you watch older videos for more travels, more tips and tricks and more inside jokes
I have been binging from the start, too.
My spouse is originally from Singapore, and I visited her there over 20 years ago, before she moved to the US so we could get married. I was vegetarian at the time and I ate _so much_ delicious food from hawker centers grocery stores. I remember getting supermarket sushi that was unbelievably good for such, and had vegetarian varieties that I've never seen on this side of the Pacific (I'm American).
AAAAAAHHHH NEVER CLICKED ON THIS SO QUICKLY!! Thanks for coming to SG and trying out food!. Hope you've enjoyed and feel free to come again~~
We LOVED our time there and would love to go back :)
@@SortedFood!. Still wished a fanmeet could've happened but glad to hear that!. Happy Holidays :))
Singaporean hawker food stalls is some of the best food you will ever have in your life. When I was there back in the 90's, it was what introduced me to so many amazing foods from different cultures around Asia. Foods I still seek out and enjoy today.
So very chuffed that the lads from Sorted are in my homeland trying our food! Enjoy the many flavours, cuisines and cultures that you will encounter, gentlemen! Buon appetito! 👍🏼😄
My partner and I decided to pop by Uncle Louis's at Maxwell right after watching this video. Let me tell you, when Ben said that he could eat a whole plate of that rice, he wasn't kidding. It was just that good! 😂 Thanks for the recommendation SortedFood! Even as locals, we do miss some of these hidden foodie gems, so I'm glad that you guys brought them into the spotlight :)
So glad you came and loved our food!! As a Singaporean currently studying overseas, your video made me miss chicken rice soooo much more 🥲 Please come back again! Old Airport Road has so many hidden gems that you NEED to try!
My brain hurts from reading auto captions all weekend in the live weekend trying to keep up with what’s happening, so human captions are very appreciated. Once again, thank you to the person who writes them for all videos, very appreciated ❤
Yup, we can imagine that's very tiring on the brain! You're doing great Alex! 👊
@@SortedFoodthere’s been some interesting mistakes, kush’s black pudding scotch egg was a black pudding Ronnie Scott and I had to ask the lovely other chat folk for help as not even I could work that one out 😂
Sitting in London watching you guys enjoy my home food makes me miss Singapore so much! Hope you guys have a great time there!
The “carrot cake” doesn’t use carrots but daikon instead! The confusion comes from the Chinese name for carrot, which literally means “foreign daikon” since carrot is not native to China but daikon is. Therefore, sometimes carrot and daikon (and other turnips in general) are all referred to by the same name
Depends on where you are in the Chinese-speaking world, of course -- many vegetables of foreign origin have different regional Chinese names. In some parts of China, carrots are referred to as "red daikon." Of course, that name produces the exact same confusion.
@@andrewhcit I’ve always thought 红萝卜 is an eggcorn for 胡萝卜
@@allmyhomieshatefreud5501 It's not, as far as I can tell. I have heard 紅蘿蔔 for my whole life. I heard 胡蘿蔔 for the first time in my life last year, when I was 39.
@@andrewhcit I’ve always heard both terms pretty much interchangeably, with 胡萝卜 being a tad more official. Either way we can agree that the Chinese language has a habit of using the names of familiar, native species to call unfamiliar, introduced species, instead of inventing a new character all together. This is how you get business goose or fire chicken!
@@allmyhomieshatefreud5501 Oh, definitely.
BTW, Wiktionary has maps showing where the various Chinese names for potato and tomato are commonly used. They have interesting regional distributions. Unfortunately I can't find a similar map for carrots.
After living in Sing for a few years I went back and learned to make the HCR. even the chili and garlic sauce. my favorite way is to dip the chick in the chili sauce and spoon it with rice. then dip it all in the soup and eat.....I made it for my family for thanksgiving with Malaysian cinnamon chicken wings...best thanksgiving ever. I miss singlish and Singaporeans.
Chicken rice is indeed one of our best hawker dishes, but hope you all also had the braised duck rices with yam rice! Frankly, sg hawker food is so amazing that you could make so many episodes on it
I know you guys have been doing this for many years but I’m always so impressed by the way that you all describe the things you eat and do a really good job of bringing whoever is watching the video along for the ride.
As someone who lived in Singapore for quite some time and don't anymore....(in UK now😅) I always say the one thing I miss about Singapore is the food... particularly the hawker centre ones! Lived in a place where I had a Chinese shop below my apartment. Char kway teow was a atleast-once-a-week dish for me!!
I've been looking forward to this since you posted pictures from sg! Hawker centres are uniquely amazing
They're incredible places!
This advent calendar has made the holidays so much better guy! You're the Best 😊😊😊❤❤❤
they brought the closh! thats just perfect!
Right? It feels like home 😂
Ahahaha! It felt slightly awkward, but actually, nobody bat an eyelid.
@@SortedFood i could tell! its on brand though
I was looking for this comment lol
TSA thought nothing of it??
2:24 Impress at the pronunciation of wok hei from Ebbers! 👏👏👏👏👏
This video was awesome. Thanks! Also, thanks for the whole weekend of snowed in. It was so fun.
In the Cantonese language, carrots are called "red radish". Again in Cantonese, "radish" refers to the large root vegetable also known as Daikon in Japanese. I think for this reasoning that carrots and daikon are named similarly in Cantonese is why what is actually daikon/radish cake is known as "carrot cake".
That was quite a fun video. Thank you.
I enjoy traveling along with you gents.
Happy you got to try Singaporean food! We're spoilt for choice here! You guys picked some of my favourite dishes, although I'm team black carrot cake 😂 Looking forward to seeing the other videos, hopefully you tried some great Malay and Indian food too~
Glad to see the team enjoyed their limited time on our little red dot!! Can’t wait to see what else they tried in the next video 😬
Re chicken rice: the roast chicken is comparatively easy to get right; the steamed chicken is easy to screw up. Therefore, here's a rule of thumb that hasn't failed me yet: if you go to a place with less than 3.5 stars on Google, order the roast chicken; if it has 4 or more stars, order the steamed.
Edit: Also Uncle Louis has been flying under the radar for awhile - ashamed to admit I hadn't heard of his chain - but he must be very confident to open in a place like Maxwell where the heavyweights operate. For those who aren't aware, before the pandemic there were two "big name" chicken rice stalls there, Tian Tian and Ah Tai, along with a bunch of imitators. The question of which is better is something of a religious debate, but now it seems there's a third option.
Edit (again): whilst on the subject of pork ribs, for contrast, another popular local dish is coffee pork ribs. It can be interesting to order them side-by-side with the salted egg ones and compare the taste.
Love that you went to Singapore. It’s definitely on the foodie travel wishlist.
We were honestly blown away. It was an incredible trip and the food was insanely good!
@@SortedFoodwell… I’m going to need the entire list of everywhere you ate then. And I might have to swap a road trip through Scotland for some travel through Asia. 👀
@@SortedFoodAs a S'porean I feel happy that u enjoy it.Sorry tho for the 30 mins walk just to find the merlion undergoing repair work,...maybe u cn ask Mike to dress up as a merlion again?
The food halls and bakeries are great, but my highlights were chilli crab in Bugis and Katong Laksa.
When i was in Bologna my husband and i booked a foodie tour. A local took us and other travelers to try different restaurants. Because you're in a group you can share dishes and thus try more. Also the local guide new so much fun facts about the city and the food. They had obviously picked excellent places with dishes I had never heard of. Be on the look out for those things, they do that in many places
The fried carrot cake looks very similar in texture to the turnip cake you often see in dim sum restaurants, made with daikon radish.
its essentially the same thing just cooked in a different way
Yep it's the same "cake" just that this one is chopped into small pieces and fried with egg and preserved radish
Love your videos. Nice to see you coming to Singapore.
Welcome!
Love that you went there guys! You have given me so many foodie destinations! Singapore is one of them!😊😊😊😊
Love to hear it! There is a whole world to explore.
@@SortedFoodyessir
Been following your channel for years. Very happy to see you guys here trying our local foods. Hoped you’ve enjoyed yourselves and Welcome to Singapore and do come back again ❤❤
These Advent videos are really making my holiday✨🎄✨
Ahhhh that's amazing to hear, thanks so much for watching, and Merry Christmas :)
Love your channel and videos! Was surprised you guys were in town! 😀 🇸🇬welcomes you back again!
So stoked and feeling so surreal to have you guys in my lil home city. The whole hawker culture (including the technique and slogans used for placing efficient food orders) is definitely a local highlight. Big fan of your channel and Ben's cute allotment videos.-emily
So happy you guys finally came to Singapore! Please come back again!!
Thank you for the nice video about the best street food 👍
I hope to see you try the famous chili crab, and to compare it with the black pepper crab! We also have a lot more hawker foods like laksa, Hokkien mee, satay, kaya toast, nasi lemak, bbq stingray, bak kut teh, bak chor mee, ice kachang, rojak, Chwee kway and popiah! But also, you can try curry puff and durian if you dare haha
Everytime I watch your videos it gives me vibes of a segment on a kids channel back In the days in Australia.
Omg I can't believe you guys were in Singapore! I've watched you guys from years back. Love you guys so much
So excited for this video while waiting for the Livestream! The food looks so good in this video 😍
I love how you guys keep releasing these videos even though you’re doing the live this weekend.
It's a busy period!
@@SortedFoodIt sure is! Hope that the entire team gets to take some well deserved rest after all of this. You’ve certainly earned it! ❤
Thank you 🫶
Bib Gourmande is my fave. Love that it brings less of the Michelin pressure, but all of the amazing tastes. Some of my most enjoyable eating experiences were in restaurants who had a bib gourmande.
Bib Gourmande was utterly delicious.
funny, your intro was our exact experience with the Merlion. In 2018(?), we walked around 10 or so minutes, and only when we were near enough did we realize that the bordered-up part was the thing we wanted to see.
You should try the ice cream sandwiches they sell near that area, it's refreshing.
This team is good at figuring things out. Hope we can have more such fusion dishes in the UK.
i have been a fan for years and cannot imagine u guys have not been to SG! this episode is everything. cant wait to see more and glad you went to a better chicken rice stall. The one who recommended the far east stall needs to be torched! in fact, the next door stall (of that far east chicken rice) fish slice noodle is more yummy than the chicken rice. If is still there.
The places you visited are so legit. These are the spots locals would frequent! Looking forward to the next episode.
LOVE singspore cousine! THANKS guys!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
that carrot cake reminds me of one of my favorite dishes that is usually served at a traditional chinese dim sum, pan fried radish cake. it's something my mom would sometimes cook, and the crispy but soft texture is so good.
Yes, the underlying "radish cake" is the very same thing. However in Singapore/Malaysia the radish cake has been combined with other goodies to form a dish that can be consumed as a whole meal. ........ Further in Singapore, there is a distinctive "dark" version using a sweetish black soy sauce. Some hawker stalls might be willing to give you half of white and half of black on your plate.
The dough is the radish (carrot)steamed cake. It’s steamed n chilled overnight for a better stir fry
I know these are expensive to make but you really should do more of these. You have enough motivated subscribers to do two videos in each place
Don't worry - we've got another Singapore video coming up very soon!!
From Burger battle to Street food. Today is a good day to watch Sorted. :)
100%!
I'm from Singapore and i love you guys so much, been watching yall since 2017. Wish I could have see yall 😢 Keep Rocking!!
I looove the variety of videos you're posting ! Fun group challenges, review videos, and these awesome travel vlogs showing off amazing food !
The camera work on this one was really fun for this type of out and about video!
Have enjoyed Sorted videos since my university days in London. So exciting to watch your take on our Singaporean food!
I love this type of video, right up there with the old fridge cam and pass it ons and the very old orignals normal battles . More relaxed and easy going style. Would love to see more of these.
Right!! Feels more casual and less production--y haha
Love that you guys went to the malls to have food, it’s not just our hawkers that have the best things! I also totally agree with the hollandaise parallel, that’s such a food one.
I’m sure you had a 100 or more other people recommend it too, but was very happy to see you went to Hainanese Delicacy in Far East Plaza! A hidden gem indeed (hidden from foreigners that is haha).
Love Char Kway Teow and Steamed Hainanese Chicken. Carrot (Turnip) Cake is awesome addition at Yum Cha
I work for a 3rd party food company (compass) they do free lunches when I am at the office and the best dish you can get is “Singapore chicken and rice” and boy did it make me happy seeing you guys having the real thing
I am so glad that you finally tried the carrot cake!!! I suggested it to you forever ago!!!! Some stalls you get an option of white or black sauce on it and the black sauce is sweeter! Hope you try it again :)
I just had to watch this even though it's the middle of the night here in Singapore! I'm so happy that you got to try the salted egg pork rib at my favourite stall!
I used to love "roast" chicken rice when I was a kid, but grew to love the Pak cham Gai aka poached chicken.
I honestly did not think the salty egg spare ribs was around for long, as it was not available while I still lived back home. But nowadays anything salted egg is good :D
Im just so glad you guys tried the stalls that were less commercialised as compared to the obvious choices.
I love Singapore, love the food. Jann 🥰🇦🇺
Amazing love this keep up the good work
As a vegetarian, scaredy cat, introvert homebody I’ll probably never have/want these experiences but it’s still fascinating to see your enthusiasm and appreciation for other cultures
Here in Sydney, if you want great Asian foods you can find them in some food courts. That's why I'm surprised to hear that's not the case in the UK.
Char Kuay Tiau / Hainan Chicken Rice are easy to find here. There are lots of places with good version of them and other Singaporean/Malay/Asian foods.
The 'carrot cake' is really a misnomer of turnip (daikon) cake, with the ambiguity likely coming from the fact that turnip in the foreign carrot in Chinese is just called the 'red turnip'! Turnip/carrot cake is common in the Chinese-speaking world and, made with more luxury ingredients (ham, dried seafood), is popular for Lunar New Year festivities
the carrot cake (菜头粿Chai Tau Kway) is the made from Glutinous Rice Flour , Radish (mainly) and carrot.
preserved radish(菜脯 Chai Por)/ garlic/ spring onion is very important in this dish
oil too but the type of oil is depend on the store you purchase from
last and not less is egg (Some use duck egg cause it taste better, but now chicken egg is frequently use)
Black is sweet and white is savory.
I'm so sore that y'all came to Singapore, while I was on holiday!! But I'm so glad y'all came to my home land for some great grub!!
Thank goodness I already had lunch before watching this video as everything looks amazing (and would make me hungry)
Char kway teow is my favourite food. What I love most about it is that every stall has their own taste. But I also hope you tried laksa when you were there.
Katong Laksa especially!!
It's not the orange carrot that you would expect, it's mooli instead, mooli is called "white carrot" in Chinese
I go to Singapore and stay there for a weekend with the family while staying in Malaysia and I tend to go for Street Food. Their food are my favourite. You should visit Malaysia and try the street food.
You are truly spoiling us guys x
Singaporean here. Love it that you are not going to touristy places but where locals actually go to!
the "sweetness" comes from chopped preserved radish bits(daikon), it is sweet and salty. So there is "double daikon" representation in carrot-cake, the steamed flour daikon cake + preserve raidish
Thank you for coming to my country!! I hope you enjoyed everything we had to offer and we hope to see you guys back for more food adventures!!!
thanks for coming! ❤❤
Miss chicken rice so much. I love Tian Tian stall. Love the clear broyh and the ginger sauce is mandatory.
Please come back to try Malay and Indian foods as well! I'm also curious to see what you feel about our take on Western food!!
The reason why it has been named carrot cake is because the main ingredient is radish, which when translated from Mandarin, is “white carrot”.
The sweetness comes from preserved/pickled radish, which also gives the entire dish a somewhat crunchy texture…
Oh wow! You guys came to Singapore!
Oh also boys singapore is a culture hotspot and you only had mostly chinese dishes, please PLEASE come back and have some malay or indian food or even peranakan
I was so happy when this video was announced on the livestream. When my girlfriend and I saw you guys went to Far East Plaza for the chicken rice, we were hoping you had also gone to New Station to try their salted egg yolk pork ribs!
This channel is all over the place and I love to see it
Sorted is clearly spoiling us this festive season 😭
Yessss I love that you guys tried the fried carrot cake, that's such a slept on local food that not many people end up trying when they come visit!
you guys are finally here!! hope you guys are enjoying Singapore thus far :)
I spent a month in Singapore earlier this year and was excited to try to recognize all the places. Turns out there are SO many hawker stalls, it’s hard to tell them apart in your videos. (Sniff.) Hope you enjoyed your trip even half as much as I did mine!
Hi! Do you have cheaper private room accommodation suggestions please? And best supermarkets?
@@chesca7295if you want value head to Malaysia, Singapore is going to be costly
@@chesca7295 It’s expensive, no question. The most affordable thing to do is avoid the supermarkets entirely and stick to the food courts in the housing communities for all your meals and food shopping needs. That’s where all the non-millionaire locals live and shop. If you’re adventurous, there are tiny bed units for rent in the Chinatown district near downtown for housing. Otherwise it’s less expensive to get a hotel further away from downtown. Singapore discourages car ownership so using public transit to get around the city is fast and affordable no matter where you stay.
@@karennoneyabeeswax7929 haha cautious with hotel tbh. Lots don't have windows which is interesting. Supermarket was just for staples tbh, hot chocolate and little snacks I can bring back to the UK 😂😁
Lovin these outdoor stuff guys!!! Awesome vid as always!!!